Category Archives: PDF

Viewing print PDFs properly

Posted on 27/11/2011 by jamietshaw

To view a print-ready PDF properly, there are some settings to switch on in Acrobat or Adobe Reader. They’re off by default, for some reason. Show trim area Traditionally, PDFs (and before that, film) are output with crop marks embedded. … Continue reading →

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PDF printer in Mac OS X

Posted on 13/11/2011 by jamietshaw

.If a Mac application uses the standard Print dialog box, as virtually everything does, then a PDF can easily be made with the PDF menu button. If specific PDF settings are required, the document can be saved as PostScript then … Continue reading →

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Accessible links in PDFs

Posted on 31/07/2011 by jamietshaw

To the average user, URLs in a PDF are clickable in Acrobat or Adobe Reader only if: They begin with http:// and/or www. Something like bbc.co.uk won’t work (although it will in Preview, the PDF and image viewer built in … Continue reading →

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