By now, many of you have discovered the most amazing new feature of Acrobat 9 Professional--the PDF Portfolio. For those of you who haven't, the PDF Portfolio is a unique and exciting type of file that allows you to share and distribute ANY type of file, not just PDFs.
Portfolio's are wrapped up in a beautiful and functional PDF wrapper, which is bathed in Flash. If you are not a Flash developer, no worries because no Flash knowledge is required. In fact, Acrobat 9 does all the fancy Flash work for you.
Click here to see a video of the PDF Portfolio creation process and then continue with this article.
Click here to see a video of the PDF Portfolio creation process and then continue with this article.
In the video, did you catch the part where I got to choose from those four pre-set Layout options? Those four dazzled me when I first installed Acrobat 9 and began making PDF Portfolios. Before long, though, I found myself wanting more choices and functionality. Fortunately, Adobe came to the rescue with new and FREE PDF Portfolio Layouts. If you would like to add to your PDF Portfolio Layout choices, click here and download the appropriate file for your operating system.
Adobe actually has you download a PDF Portfolio. Included are folders for the various languages in the release, and specific directions on how to install the new layout options.
Once installed, you'll be able to explore and utilize your original four layouts, plus the new enhanced ones.
There's nothing ordinary about any PDF Portfolio, but yours can now be truly extraordinary.
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David R. Mankin is a Certified Technical Trainer, desktop publisher, computer graphic artist, and Web page developer. He is an Adobe-Certified Expert in Acrobat.
Good article. FYI: the additional and updated PDF Portfolio layouts are also included with the Acrobat 9.1 Pro and Pro Extended updates which all Acrobat 9 users are advised to get.
Ali Hanyaloglu
Product Evangelist, Acrobat
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Posted by: Ali Hanyaloglu | April 13, 2009 at 05:20 PM