Carl Young’s AcroViews

What Adobe is now calling the PDF Editor is a nice way to quickly create a simple PDF by typing on the screen. (For more, see this article by Kurt Foss.) The command is available from File > Create PDF > From Blank Page. You don’t see the From Blank Page option from the Create PDF button on the toolbar.

What isn’t so obvious is how to ease the process of dressing up your file. By default, the text you type will be Arial. You can change it from the PDF Editor, but you don’t have to start off with Arial as the default. Instead, you can dig into your Preferences setting and change the font to something else.

Choose Edit > Preferences and select New Document. You can now change the default font to something more interesting, and amaze your coworkers with your Acrobat prowess.

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