Interface Interface Elements The all-new graphic user interface of PDF Converter Elite consists of six main components: 1. The Menu bar contains six drop down menus: File, Edit, Convert, Document, View and Help. These menus include all of the commands available for PDF Converter Elite. 2. The Toolbar provides quick access to frequently used commands in PDF Converter Elite. The toolbar consists of the following set of commands: Open, Create, Save, Convert to Word, Convert to Excel, Convert to Publisher, Convert to Open Office, Convert PDF to HTML, Convert to AutoCAD, Convert to Image, Batch Conversion and Search. 3. The Tab bar enables users to easily navigate through opened documents. It can be found directly above opened documents. Your document will appear in the document area if you click on the tabs. 4. The Document Area displays the active document. 5. The Dynamic Sidebar appears based on the chosen action. It lists all the available options and customizations for that action. 6. The Navigation bar helps the user to quickly navigate through the active document, zoom in and out or rotate it. Opening Documents There are two ways to open a document in PDF Converter Elite 4: On the File menu , click Open to choose the desired file saved on the computer. Confirm by clicking Open . On the Toolbar , click the Open icon and choose the desired file saved on the computer. Confirm by clicking Open . Closing Documents There are two ways to close an active document: - Click Close on the File menu. - Click the document close button in the top right corner of the Tab bar. To close all opened documents and exit the application, click Exit on the File menu . Selecting the Entire Document To select all pages of a document, click on the Convert menu , then in the drop down list click on Select All Pages . Or: Open the document, choose the conversion type (for example: PDF to Excel), then on the dynamic sidebar choose Select All Pages from the list. Selecting the Entire Content of a Single Page To select a whole page of a document, click on the Convert menu , then Select All on Page in the dropdown list. Selecting a Page Range To select content within a specific page range, click on the Convert menu and then click on the Select Page Range . In the opened dialog, enter the page numbers or page ranges you would like selected, separated by commas - E.g. 2,7,4-5,15,10-13. Click OK . Selecting Area To highlight a selection of content for conversion from PDF into another editable format, on the dynamic sidebar choose the button Select Area . Now use your mouse or touchpad to select the part of the document or content on a single page that you want converted from PDF. Converting PDF Documents Note: All conversions will be applied only to the selected content. To learn about content selection, see Selecting Content. Converting PDF Documents to Microsoft Word Choose any of the following options to convert PDF to Word: - On the Menu bar: click on File then Open and browse for the PDF that you want to convert to Word. Click on the Convert button and then choose PDF to Word. - On the Toolbar : click on the Open icon and then click on the icon Word . Select content for conversion. Note: To learn how to select content, see Selecting Content. Select one of the three conversion modes: - Standard conversion delivers the best output for most documents. It retains background graphics and textual layout. - Frames conversion delivers the output with the background graphics and layout of the selected pages and items. In that case, the text appears in individual text boxes in a new document. - Text conversion converts only the parts of text of the selected content. This conversion mode is recommended when the user wants to edit or use only the text portion of the PDF. Click the Convert button. Converting PDF Documents to Microsoft Excel Choose any of the following options to convert PDF to Excel: - On the Menu bar: click on File then Open and browse for a PDF you want to convert to Excel. Click on the Convert button and then choose PDF to Excel. - On the Toolbar : click on the Open icon and then click on the icon Excel . Selecting content for conversion. Note: To learn how to select content, see Selecting Content. Click the button Advanced Options to open the dialog box with additional preferences: Customize conversion output by checking the box in front of the preferred option, Add additional pages by clicking on Extend button on Page Range box. Click Exclude to exclude a page you want. Click to Add or Delete tables. Click Replot if you want to recalculate the column structure for all tables within the chosen page range. Click Add Columns to add more columns or Erase Column Line to remove a certain column. Click on drop down menu Never Split , to change how the content within the cells will be treated. Add more rows by clicking Add Rows , or remove a certain row by clicking Erase Row Line . In order to activate Add Rows and Erase Row Line buttons, you need to tick Manual Row Editing box. To see the rows on the page, tick Show Rows . Click on the Row Settings button to differentiate the rows based on a specific column table within a table or by using the existing row lines on the page. Click Edit Header button to adjust the header. Click Edit Footer button to adjust the footer. Click on Settings button to enable or disable headers or footers. Click on Convert on the Menu bar and then click to Save Custom Excel template . Click the Convert button. Converting PDF Documents to Microsoft PowerPoint Choose any of the following options to convert PDF to PowerPoint: - On the Menu bar: click on File then Open and browse for a PDF that you want to convert to PowerPoint. Click on the Convert button and then - choose PDF to PowerPoint. On the Toolbar : click on the Open icon and then click on the icon PowerPoint . Select content for conversion . Note: To learn how to select content see Selecting Content. Click the Convert button. Converting PDF Documents to Microsoft Publisher Choose any of the following options to convert PDF to Publisher: - On the Menu bar: click on File then Open and browse for a PDF you want to convert to Publisher. Click on the Convert button and then choose PDF to Publisher. - On the Toolbar : click on the Open icon and then click on the icon Publisher . Select content for conversion . Note: To learn how to select content, see Selecting Content. Select Conversion Mode : - Standard mode gives the optimal conversion results for most documents. All contents are placed in one frame, while images and other objects are placed in separate frames. - Frame per Paragraph mode places each paragraph into a separate frame. It is most suitable for editing or rearranging the content of your document. - Frame per Token , token is actually the smallest recognized group of the items on the page. This conversion mode creates a maximum number of frames available and allows for maximum editing flexibility. Click the Convert button. Converting PDF Documents to Open Office Choose any of the following options to convert PDF to Open Office: - On the Menu bar: click on File then Open and browse a PDF you want to convert to Open Office . Click on the Convert button and then choose PDF to Open Office. - On the Toolbar : click on the Open icon and then click on icon Open Office . Select content for conversion . Note: To learn how to select content, see Selecting Content. Select Conversion mode : Writer, Calc or Impress. Click the Convert button. Converting PDF Documents to HTML Choose any of the following options to convert PDF to HTML: - On the Menu bar: click on File then Open and browse a PDF you want to convert to HTML. Click on the Convert button and then choose PDF to HTML. - On the Toolbar : click on the Open icon and then click on icon HTML Select content for conversion . Note: To learn how to select content, see Selecting Content. Click the Convert button. Converting PDF Documents to AutoCAD . Choose any of the following options to convert PDF to AutoCAD: - On the Menu bar: click on File then Open and browse a PDF you want to convert to AutoCAD. Click on the Convert button and then choose PDF to AutoCAD . - On the Toolbar : click on the Open icon and then click on icon AutoCAD . Select content for conversion . Note: To learn how to select content, see Selecting Content. On the dynamic sidebar, choose between: AutoCAD Formats (DWG or DXF), Color Palettes (standard or RGB), Units (millimeters or inches), Polyline Width (from source document or zero), insertion point and scale . You can also tick the box to save current settings as default. Click the Convert button. Converting PDF Documents to Images Choose any of the following options to convert PDF to Images: - On the Menu bar: click on File then Open and browse a PDF you want to convert to Images. Click on the Convert button and then choose PDF to Images . - On the Toolbar : click on the Open icon and then click on icon Images . Select content for conversion . Note: To learn how to select content, see Selecting Content. On the dynamic sidebar, select the output type and specific image properties. Choose the scale. You can choose dimension by width or height. The default location for saving images is the same as the location of the opened PDF document. Click the Convert button. Batch Conversion To batch convert PDF files choose one of these two options: - On the Convert menu, click on Batch Conversion . - On the Toolbar , click on the Batch icon . In the dialog box, click on the Add files button and select the PDF files for batch conversion. The selected files will appear in the dialog box. If you unintentionally added a file that you do not want to convert, select it and click on the Remove Selected button. Click Browse to select the output folder for saving resulting files. By default, converted files will be saved in the same folder as the source files. Choose the conversion output format and fill out the captcha.Click on the Convert button. After conversion, all the converted files will appear in the specified output folder. Editing PDF Files Deleting Pages To delete pages from the PDF document, on the Edit menu click Delete Pages. Select the desired page range and click Delete . Moving Pages To move a certain page in your document from one place to another, you need to choose the page and the location. You can do that in the following way: On the Edit menu click on Move Pages . Enter the number of the page you want to move. For example, if you want to move a single page, enter the page’s number in both the First Page and Last Page fields. In the Put before page field, choose the new location of the page. Then click on Move button to finalize the changes. Resizing pages To resize pages click the button Resize Pages on the Edit menu. In the Resize pages dialog box choose: Page size – choose width and height. Range of the pages to be resized. You can resize the page in inches, centimetres, millimetres, and points. Click Resize . Scaling Pages In order to scale the page you need to click on Scale Pages from the Edit menu. In the fields First Page and Last Page enter the number of pages you want to scale. If you want to scale only one page, enter the same number in both fields. In the field Scale specify the scale percentage. To finalize the changes, click on Scale button. Rotating Pages Pages can be rotated temporarily or permanently. To rotate pages temporarily click on the Rotate button bar. on the Navigation To rotate pages permanently, click Rotate Pages on the Edit menu: Choose a degree/direction and a page range and click Rotate . Viewing Settings To change the viewing settings, click on the Viewer Preferences on the Edit menu. Tick the options you want to enable. These are the options you can choose to activate: Hide Toolbar, Hide Window User Interface, Center Window, Hide Menubar, Resize Window to First Page Size, Show Document Title. You can also change Page Mode , from normal view to outline panel, thumbnail panel, full screen, optional content group panel, attachments panel. You can also change Page Mode and start with options - what page will be displayed once the document is opened and what zoom mode will be displayed once the document is opened. Once you make the changes, click OK. Redo/ Undo Edits On the Edit menu, click on Redo to repeat the editing action or click on Undo to discard editing action. Copying Text To copy a selected portion of text from the PDF file to the clipboard: click on the Edit menu , and then click Copy . Creating PDF Files Creating Unsecured PDF Files To create unsecure PDFs, select any of the following options: - On the File menu, click on Create PDF . - On the Toolbar , click the Create icon . A window will pop up to browse the file you want to turn to PDF. In the File name field, enter the name of the document. Click Open button to open the file you want to turn to PDF. The PDF will be created automatically. Click on x button to close the PDF. A window will pop up asking you to save the PDF. Choose the location where you want to save the newly created PDF. Creating Secured PDF Files Secure PDFs are password-protected files with set restrictions and permissions. The creator of such a file can prohibit other users from modifying, copying, printing and even viewing the file. To create secure PDFs, open the PDF Creation Options from the View menu. Click on the tab Security and set the password. You can choose the permissions you wish to disallow and uncheck the boxes next to each option.Input user/owner passwords in the appropriate text boxes. Click OK . Then click from the File menu click on Create PDF or click the Create icon on the Toolbar . Choose the location where you want to save your PDF. Next time you open it, you will need a password. Creating PDF Files via PDF Converter Elite Print Driver To create PDF via Print Driver, open the file and choose the Print option from the File menu. Select PDF Converter Elite 4.0 Printer from the list of available printers. Choose printing options depending on the file you want to print and click on Print . Print Dispatcher window will pop up. Click Browse button to select location for saving the file on your computer and click OK . If you want to secure that document, click on the Options button. Choose the action after PDF creation. You can choose to do nothing, to open the PDF in PDF Converter Elite or in default PDF Reader and to open containing folder. PDF Creation Options Click View menu to change PDF creation options. In General tab, enter the author's name, the document’s title and subject. In Security tab, set user and owner passwords. Also tick the boxes in order to enable different permissions: allow printing, allow copying content, allow modifying document, allow adding comments, low-resolution printing only, allow copying content for accessibility, allow filling in forms, allow assembling document. In compression tab, change color images, grayscale images and monochrome images settings. In fonts & colors tab, tick the box to Embed All Fonts or to Subset Fonts when the percentage of characters used is less than a predefined percentage. In MS Office tab you can choose to create a PDF only from current sheet/first sheet or entire workbook. Tick the boxes to retain hyperlinks/ bookmarks/ comments from source document. In View tab, tick the boxes of the viewing options you want to enable, set the page mode and the page layout. If you want to restore default settings, click Restore Standard button. If you want to save those settings, click Save as Default button. To apply new settings to a file currently converting to PDF, click Load from File button. To apply new settings to a file that will be converted later, click Save to File button.
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