Adobe Acrobat 8 Standard

Edit a PDF package

Editing a PDF package involves changes at the package level. For example, you can add or remove component files or set up new categories to facilitate sorting the components.

Editing the component PDFs within a package involves the same techniques used to make changes to any PDF, which are presented elsewhere in Help.

Add unconverted files to a PDF package

  1. On the PDF package navigation bar, choose Options > Add File, and select a location and name for the extracted file. Or, right-click/Control-click and choose Add File.
  2. Open the PDF package, and adjust the Acrobat window so that it does not completely fill the screen.
  3. On the desktop or in Windows Explorer or the Finder, select the file or files you want to add to the PDF package, and drag them into the list of component files in the Acrobat work area.

Add PDFs to a PDF package

 Do any of the following:

  • In Windows Explorer or the Finder, select the PDFs you want to add to the currently open PDF package and drag them into the list of component files.

  • In the PDF package navigation bar, choose Options > Add File or right-click/Control-click and choose Add File. Then locate and select the files you want to add.

Remove component files from a PDF package

 In the list of component files for the open PDF package, select the files that you want to remove and press Delete, or choose Options > Delete File.

Customize categories for the PDF list

  1. Do one of the following:

    • On the PDF package navigation bar, choose Options > Package Properties

    • Right-click/Control-click the categories pane in the PDF package navigation pane, and choose Package Properties.

  2. Click Add, and type a name for the new category in the Add Field dialog box.
  3. Make any other changes you want in the Package Properties dialog box:

    • To change the order in which the categories appear, select individual categories and click Up or Down until you have them in the order you want.

    • To hide a category, deselect its check box, or select the category and click Hide.

    • To show a category, select its check box, or select the category and click Show.

    • To remove a category, select the category and click Delete.

    • To change the default category for sorting the PDFs, choose another category name in the Sort By menu.

    • To set the sorting order, select Ascending or Descending.

    • To specify the default locations of the PDF list, select Top, Left, or Minimized in the Initial View menu.

    • To open the currently displayed PDF each time you reopen the PDF package, select Show Current Document When Opening Collection.

    Note: Changes made to the Package Properties affect the entire PDF package and can be viewed by other users who open the PDF package.

Edit category entries for the currently open component PDF

  1. In the list of component files, select the file that you want to edit.
  2. Do one of the following:

    • On the PDF package navigation bar, choose Options > Edit Value > [category name].

    • Right-click/Control-click the categories bar or the selected component file, and choose Edit Value > [category name].

  3. In the Edit [category name] dialog box, type the text to appear under this category for the currently selected component file.