Acrobat according to your Preferences
Yesterday’s post offered a reminder that Acrobat provides a way for users to choose whether they want product updates to be tracked and downloaded automatically or handled manually. It’s one of the almost 30 categories available in Acrobat’s Preferences. See:
Acrobat > Preferences
It’s probably fair to assume that a lot of users install Acrobat and begin using it without reviewing the myriad options available within the various Preferences categories for fine-tuning different features and aspects of the program. And then there’s another group that may have opened the Preferences pane and navigated through some of the categories, only to be perplexed by the many possible choices or unsure of the value and impact of making certain changes. To a large degree, it’s a trial-and-error process.
In his “Acrobat for Legal Professionals” blog on Adobe.com, Rick Borstein, a Business Development Manager specializing in the Acrobat-Legal Market for Adobe Systems, offered an assessment of some of the more useful Preference settings changes. In a May blog posting titled “Acrobat Preferences: My Personal Favorites,” Borstein walks through a selection of the categories, noting and explaining a few options others might want to consider. For example, he shares his reasoning for changing some of the default settings in the “Convert to PDF” category that he says can reduce the file size by 40 to 80 percent when converting a TIFF file to PDF.
Once you get started making a few Preference settings changes, you’ll likely want to take a closer look at some of the other ways you can tailor Acrobat to your own needs and uses. And you’ll likely expand your understanding of the program in the process.
