Mobile-friendly and Printer-friendly PDF Forms

Name: Mobile-friendly and Printer-friendly PDF Forms
Author: Ryan Mathews

Discover the Adobe Acrobat mobile application and learn how to create and edit PDFs with its tools

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Course: On-Demand

In this lesson, you will learn how to prepare forms, and design forms for mobile-friendly use. So let's go ahead and get started. The first thing I'm gonna show you today is the Optimization tool. To optimize your PDF to mobile standards is probably the quickest and most efficient way to make sure that your form or PDF is mobile-friendly, and able to be accessible and editable through the mobile device. So let's go ahead and get started. The first thing you're gonna do is go to the Tools tab on the upper left-hand side. And then you're going to find the Optimize PDF option. You're gonna go ahead and click on the Optimize PDF option. When you click on this Optimize PDF option, you're going to go to the Advanced Optimization option, which is located on the secondary toolbar towards the middle just above your PDF. You're gonna go ahead and click on Advanced. And you will notice that automatically, Adobe Acrobat has placed settings for your PDF to be standard. Now, if you hit this dropdown menu, you will see that you have got the option for Custom, or you've got the option for Mobile. You're gonna go ahead and select Mobile. By selecting Mobile, you'll notice that some of your elements in the Image Settings, the Grayscale Images and the Monochrome Images have shifted. This is because it's optimal for mobile devices to be with these settings. Let's go on back to Standard and see the difference. If we click on Standard, you'll see that all of a sudden, the Color Images is now 150 PPI, 150 PPI and 300 PPI. Whereas if we go to the Mobile, you'll see 96, 96 and 600. So this is optimal for a mobile device. This is specific to a mobile device use. If you were to share this document with somebody that could access this on their mobile device, sign it, edit it, whatever needs to happen, this would be the most optimized version of this form. Now, if you were to customize your form, say change some of these settings, such as go to 99, you'll notice that now your settings has changed to Custom. This is because the presets that are set are specific to mobile device. And if you change any of the settings, it will be considered a custom setting, which is not an issue. If you feel like it's better to be 99 PPI opposed to the 96, you can adjust that. However, just know that if you're changing those small things, it's going to change it from Mobile to Custom. So now, we're gonna go ahead, and change it back to our Mobile. Now, another thing to look at too is in this section here, we have this box that's optional to be checked that says Optimize images only if there is a reduction size. This means that images will shift if need be. Now, let's go on through some of the other options. So this setting is specific to images. Let's take a look at Fonts. If we look at Fonts, one of the things that's automatically checked is the Do not embed any fonts. If we unclick this, you will see that now our preference has changed to Custom. So we have to be careful with what we change, and what we shift. So let's go ahead and move it back to Mobile. With anything that you click with on this list, it's going to change the settings, and it's going to move it to Custom. So do be aware of that. So if your settings are how you would like them, and you'd like to just keep them on Mobile, you can use the blue OK button that's at the bottom right-hand side. Now, it's going to ask you to save a new copy of this file because we have changed the standards of it. We're gonna call this Phone. Then, you're gonna click the blue Save button that's at the bottom right-hand side. And it goes to work and saves your document. Now what we're going to do is we're gonna go ahead and share this document. And then we're going to access it from a mobile device. Once you've selected who you wanna share this document to, and you say Allow comments, you're gonna go ahead and use the blue Send button that's at the bottom of this pop-out window. And it should send your form along. This has been how to optimize your document or your form for mobile devices.

Intermediate Provider : Ryan Mathews 7 Lessons · 46m in Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese

Course Description

These lessons focus on creating and working with the mobile application of Adobe Acrobat. They also cover applying advanced printer settings to PDFs. First, you will learn how to create a mobile-friendly PDF through the desktop application. Next, you will focus on using the mobile application, particularly the download, sign-in, access, and settings adjustments. You will also learn how to edit PDFs through your mobile device, particularly with the fill-and-sign tool and the share tool. Finally, you will explore how to create printer-friendly forms, adjust advanced printing settings, and print a PDF.

What You'll Learn

Create a mobile-friendly PDF through the Adobe Acrobat desktop application
Download, sign in to, access, and adjust settings in the Adobe Acrobat mobile application
Edit PDFs on a mobile device using the fill-and-sign tool and the share tool
Apply auto field detection, digital signatures, text, and automatic sizing in the mobile app
Create printer-friendly forms and adjust advanced printing settings
Print a PDF using the appropriate printer settings

Key Takeaways

A mobile-friendly PDF is first created through the Adobe Acrobat desktop application before working with it on mobile.
The Adobe Acrobat mobile application supports downloading, signing in, accessing files, and adjusting settings.
PDFs can be edited on a mobile device using tools such as fill-and-sign and share.
The course covers mobile tools including signatures, field detection, text, sizing, and view.
Creating printer-friendly forms involves adjusting advanced printing settings before printing a PDF.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this course cover?

It covers creating and working with the Adobe Acrobat mobile application and applying advanced printer settings to PDFs, including creating mobile-friendly PDFs, editing PDFs on mobile devices, and creating printer-friendly forms.

What tools will I learn to use in the Adobe Acrobat mobile application?

You will learn to create, edit, and use mobile application tools including signatures, field detection, text, sizing, and view, as well as the fill-and-sign tool and the share tool.

What lessons are included in this course?

The lessons are Designing Forms for Mobile Use, Create and Edit Forms Using Mobile Devices, Auto Field Detection, Digital Signatures, Creating Printer-friendly Forms, Text and Automatic Sizing, and Advanced Features for Mobile.

What skills does this course help develop?

It builds skills in Adobe Acrobat, PDF Conversion, PDF Editors, PDF Generation, PDF Readers, and PDF Writer.

Does this course teach printing PDFs?

Yes. It covers how to create printer-friendly forms, adjust advanced printing settings, and print a PDF.