Comments on: Making PDF Porfolios With Adobe Acrobat Pro 9

By: Nix

Nix — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:51:39 +0000

Hi There,

I would like to know if there is any way to set the pdf portfolio up so that there are no cards in the document and only the images that have been imported so that it resembles an itunes library with the image having a reflection and not the card?
If not is there any way that I can customize a pdf portfolio to do so?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thank You
Nix

By: Another Passer By

Another Passer By — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 00:49:11 +0000

oops, that second one should have been “Comments” not “Contents”

By: Another Passer By

Another Passer By — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:47:30 +0000

As you are being helpful to us passing by, I thought I would try to return the favor. I reviewed your code for the site to determine your layout issues. There are a few in there, but to keep things as simple as possible. If you put inline styles on the “Guts” and “Content” divs as follows:
style=”display:Block; float:left; width:620px;”>
and move the “colRight” section up to approximately line 762 (just below the 3 closing divs) your layout should function properly.

It’s been roughly tested in IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera on the PC. Results may vary on a Mac.

Hope this helps

By: Rex

Rex — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:28:17 +0000

Hi, thank you for this info… it is great!

I am creating a pdf portfolio using the revolve layout.

Quick question, is there a way to either hide the “Name” of the document so it doesn’t appear on the small polaroid at all or at least hide the file extension (so it doesn’t display “filename.JPG)? I would like the portfolio to list the name of the design, but there is no need for the “.JPG” and it looks a little out of place.

Also, I want a description for each design. I can add the description just fine, however is there a way to center the description with the image? On my portfolio, the Name.JPG is centered and the Description is left-aligned, so it looks a little off.

This is a great addition to Adobe Acrobat, but hopefully Adobe included some options so us designers or photographers can customize this viewable text on the Revolve layout to make it look more professional, as a portfolio should be.

Thanks!

By: Sherry

Sherry — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 18:47:03 +0000

can you tell me if one can hyperlink to a specific file in a portfolio ? Thanks.

By: Pariah S. Burke

Pariah S. Burke — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:18:54 +0000

Thanks for letting us know, but we are aware of it. It’s been a problem since FF 2. Unfortunately no one–including the FF community forums and devs–can figure out a solution . The float issue ONLY happens when there is Google Adsense code in the right column; otherwise, the layout works. It also works if you view the site with FF’s dev tools turned on.

I’ve tried everything short of going back to tables (ugh!) to fix this, but am definitely open to suggestions. You can reach me directly at publisher @ this domain name.

By: Passing Viewer 2

Passing Viewer 2 — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:15:10 +0000

Still Broken on December 10th 2008
even in Firefox 3.1 beta 2

By: Passing viewer

Passing viewer — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:13:13 +0000

I stubled across your website whilst searching for information about PDFs. I noticed your site layout is broken in Firefox 3.0.3 on Windows XP. This is probably due to a style sheet float/margin conflict. I hope you don’t mind but I thought it might be helpful to let you know.

By: Jeremy Schultz

Jeremy Schultz — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:19:36 +0000

I attended my local InDesign User Group meeting last night and Lynn Grillo demonstrated Acrobat 9 Pro for the crowd. Two questions came up:

(1) Can you change PDF Portfolio compression settings?

If you look at the file detail listing, you’ll see that PDF Portfolios automatically compress your files to make the portfolio smaller. AFAIK, there is no way to change or remove the compression. There’s no settings in the preferences and the PDF Optimizer is grayed out. However, if you are adding PDF files to your PDF Portfolio, you can always use the PDF Optimizer on those ahead of time and tweak their file size beforehand.

(2) Can you open a file in the PDF Portfolio, revise it and save it, and retain the revised file in the portfolio?

Yes, you can do this. If you think of the PDF Portfolio as a shell that holds other files, similar to Photoshop’s Smart Objects feature, it makes a lot of sense. I tossed an InDesign document and other files in a PDF Portfolio, then I opened the InDesign file, revised it and saved it. According to the Open Recent menu, this file was residing in a temp folder on my hard drive at the time. After I saved the InDesign file, Acrobat 9 Pro showed the PDF Portfolio was revised as well. I saved and closed everything and then reopened the portfolio, and the InDesign file retained the revisions.