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Dave Merchant replied to Getting ex VAT price for FrameMaker 11 download

"As explained here, the Adobe Store does not process tax-exempt orders."

in Downloading, Installing, Setting Up 2 replies
8 hours ago
Dave Merchant replied to Heads up: I have started to use CR 7 for RAW video

"It's much better to use After Effects to grade Canon RAW/DNG footage, as you can maintain a 100% nondestructive workflow.   You can import"

in Adobe Camera Raw 7 replies
13 hours ago
Dave Merchant replied to If i download Adobe reader will i also take in other things like competing virus protection?

"If you uncheck the box, no."

in Adobe Reader 1 replies
13 hours ago
Dave Merchant replied to How do I uninstall all adobe products and do a clean install ?

"See http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html"

in Downloading, Installing, Setting Up 2 replies
13 hours ago
Dave Merchant replied to Docking Toolbars | CTRL+E Dialog Boxes | Quick Tools | Despeckle

"I agree with you (despite describing the way the UI works, I never said it was perfect!). However, the Acrobat UI came in with version X bac"

in Acrobat Feature Requests 10 replies
1 day ago
Dave Merchant replied to Jeff Schewe's latest ACR/Digital Negative book listing on Amazon *hacked* to mock CC subscription???

"Your reply used some keywords (innocently) that are on the auto-moderation list as they're commonly found in spam posts - that is why they s"

in Adobe Camera Raw 7 replies
1 day ago
Dave Merchant replied to How to obtain permission to develop an Adobe Reader plug-in

"http://www.adobe.com/devnet/reader/ikla.html"

in Adobe Reader 1 replies
1 day ago
Dave Merchant replied to Removal of Pro XI trial and reversion to ProX

"You'll have to uninstall the trial, then reinstall Acrobat X Pro from your original media (or redownload the installer from the links at Pro"

in Acrobat Installation & Update Issues 1 replies
1 day ago
Dave Merchant replied to Acrobat Pro - advanced print settings

"Only the fields supported by the selected printer driver are active on that dialog; for example if you don't have a PostScript printer, that"

in Printing & Prepress 1 replies
2 days ago
Dave Merchant replied to Metric to English conversion on blueprints

"Depends on what you mean by 'dimensions'.   If these are previously-added PDF annotations, then the simple answer is that you would have to"

in Creating, Editing & Exporting PDFs 3 replies
2 days ago
Dave Merchant replied to IPTC city and country not getting written to XMP

"Your file sets the following entries (which I can see in Bridge CS5 and CS6 on Windows)   > Iptc4xmpCore:CreatorContactInfo >> Iptc4xmpCor"

in Photoshop Lightroom 5 7 replies
2 days ago
Dave Merchant replied to How do I save highlighting in .pdf file when converting to .docx format?

"With what? rmckay4 wrote:   ...and converted it to .docx."

in Creating, Editing & Exporting PDFs 1 replies
2 days ago
Dave Merchant replied to Acrobat Portfolio link

"To link between files in a Portfolio you need to use the "Go to Page View" action on the link. When the mini-dialog appears, navigate throug"

in Creating, Editing & Exporting PDFs 4 replies
2 days ago
Dave Merchant replied to Which executables are installed with Acrobat?

"Some of the code from Elements is used for OS integration, such as to display previews and thumbnails on Windows Explorer. It's faster to lo"

in Acrobat Installation & Update Issues 4 replies
3 days ago
Dave Merchant replied to Change font conditionally

"Adobe Reader cannot edit the content of PDF files.   Even in Acrobat it's not possible. Scripting in Acrobat could detect the words, but yo"

in Adobe Reader 3 replies
3 days ago
Dave Merchant replied to My Client says the spelling of a header is changing on the .pdf?

"It's not possible for the text of a PDF file to change, either during creation or based on who's looking at it. The text is set by the appli"

in Creating, Editing & Exporting PDFs 3 replies
4 days ago
Dave Merchant replied to How can Creative Clown work with stable, professional workflows?

"Subscribers don't have to apply the updates notified via Application Manager straight away, they can wait for up to 12 months (though they t"

in Premiere Pro 12 replies
5 days ago
Dave Merchant replied to Adobe SendNow - What is the optimal size for custom logos?

"The documentation states that the 'best' size is 200x80 pixels."

in Acrobat.com 2 replies
5 days ago
Dave Merchant replied to Remove "Open in Full Screen mode" from multiple files

"In Acrobat XI Pro, create a new Action and add the 'Set Open Options' step from the Document Processing section. Change the settings and tur"

in JavaScript 5 replies
5 days ago
Dave Merchant replied to Hi

"If you want to extract a table from a larger document, select all the text within the table using your cursor, right-click and choose "Save"

in Creating, Editing & Exporting PDFs 4 replies
5 days ago
Dave Merchant replied to Top Participants and Jive

"Wrong. As you well know from reading these forums, MVPs are completely free to express their own views whether they agree with Adobe policy"

in Forum comments 26 replies
6 days ago
Dave Merchant replied to Converting pdf to excel

"Unless the table was exported with accurate structure tags, you cannot expect a perfect conversion into XLSX. Acrobat has to guess at the la"

in Creating, Editing & Exporting PDFs 2 replies
6 days ago
Dave Merchant replied to Executables in reader app?

"The official documentation is at http://learn.adobe.com/wiki/download/attachments/85852397/Enterprise_G uide_ReaderMobile.pdf (though it doe"

in Adobe Reader 1 replies
1 week ago