14th October 2007

How to Create a Blank PDF in Acrobat 8

posted in Tips and Tricks, Acrobat Professional, PDF Creation, General, Acrobat for Mac, Create, Acrobat Pro, Acrobat 3D |

This is funny but get this question alot. Previous to release 8 of Acrobat, this was not an easy task. But in Acrobat 8 we gave you an easy way to create a blank PDFThis is a pretty straight forward process, but, you may be suprised at what you actually get when you create a blank PDF.  Once the PDF is created you will be put into an edit mode that allows you to, add text, and if you use the advance edit tools, you can also add graphics. Now don’t get this mixed up with a word processor, or a publishing tool, but, think of those times when you need a quick cover sheet added to a project, or a quck summary page, any time you need a quick sheet.

Let’s get to how we do this;

First, in Acrobat 8, go to File|Create PDF|From  Blank Page

Create a new PDF-File|Create PDF|Create a blank page

Ok that’s it, but, I want to explain what you are seeing right now, you have a blank PDF, but, we took it to the next level, we added an editor that allows you to add simple text with some formating

Create a Blank PDF-Text Editor

So you ask, ok Tim, pretty cool but, I want to put an image on this page, I look at this toolbar and I don’t see where I can add an image!  Well you thought you just “stumped the chump” huh?  Nope, it’s just a bit hidden, heres what you do, select the hand tool handtool.png, this will get you out of edit mode and then go to Tools|Advanced Editing|Touch up Object Tool.  Then Right Mouse Click somewhere on the PDF and you will see Place Image

Create a blank PDF-Add Image

Select an image to add and volia, you have an image.  Ahh to be the Alpha Geek!  Anyway here is my result-

Create blank PDF-Image Placed

And that’s it, pretty easy, but a very useful tool that was 100% customer driven!  So, remember if you have a good idea on a new or improved feature in Acrobat, please e-mail me I would love to hear from you, welp gots to go watch the Cowboys loose, Hummm, already 21 New England - 10 Dallas, I guess it’s time to go to the Tivo and watch some Euro2008 qualifying. 

So, put some life in your life, see ya later

Tim

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  1. 1 On November 14th, 2007, Sonya said:

    Hello, Tim -

    Thank you for your website! I’m teaching a beginning Adobe Acrobat 8.0 class tomorrow and your website has helped me prepare, plus I will refer my students to it!

    Thanks again!
    Sonya

  2. 2 On November 14th, 2007, Tim Huff said:

    Thank you Sonya, I will try to watch my language :-) I hope your class went well!

    Tim

  3. 3 On January 22nd, 2008, raymondj said:

    Problem: I need to combine portions of pdf documents not the whole page.
    When I try to cut and Paste the font,paragraph, and box size change within
    acrobat prof 8.1 or if I am pasting from a word or text file into a pdf.
    By box size change I mean if there is too much text the text is cut off
    and does not flow over to the next page.

    Question: I do not need to cut and paste a whole page. Nor do I need
    to change a small portion of text with the touch up tool. Is there
    something I am missing or do I need to look at inDesign to edit a pdf
    like a word processing document?

    Justifiication: Before I deploy a system or start troubleshooting I do research.
    I frequently find parts of the answer in several places. For instance, I
    may find an article on one subject that mentions a new subject or concept
    that I am not familar with. So I go to the vendor’s documentation in PDF or html
    and find that I need to cut portions of the document and paste them in to the
    document that I am using to collect research. When I copy selection into
    an existing document, acrobat adds the pages after the last page. I would like to append the
    new text to the last page of the research document and not after the last
    page.

  4. 4 On March 10th, 2008, Adding Adobe Captivate (SWF) movie clips to a PDF file » I did not know Acrobat could do that said:

    […] processor, Adobe InDesign, or just use the Create Blank PDF function in Acrobat 8 Professional (See here for how to create a blank PDF or get the PODCast here)! Make sure that you keep enough room in your PDF document for the movie […]

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