From the course: Adobe Acrobat Basics: Features Everyone Should Know

Acrobat opens anything - Adobe Acrobat Tutorial

From the course: Adobe Acrobat Basics: Features Everyone Should Know

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Acrobat opens anything

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- [Lecturer] If it's a graphics format, chances are it will open in Acrobat DC Pro. It's like the can opener of graphics and images. This can be extremely useful if you don't have a lot of Adobe Graphics applications, such as Photoshop and Illustrator, the go-to programs for pixel and vector artwork. Or if you're a designer and need to send a PDF of art or design to a client who may not have the graphics applications. In this lesson, you're going to open artwork that's been saved in a variety of graphics formats. To get started, download the course files and open the folder 01.01 AcrobatOpensAnything. Let's say you have received some stock images from a designer saved as JPEGs, and you would like to add some notes to point out some minor retouching you'd like done. A great application to add annotations or notes is Acrobat, so you need to save the JPEGs as PDFs. You're going to start by opening a JPEG, a format that's very popular on the web because it can save a quality image that's small in size for faster downloads. For this reason, virtually all stock photography is also saved in this format. There are two basic ways to open graphics in Acrobat. The first is to click on the file and drag and drop it on the application. Give it a try. Now that Acrobat is open, try going to File, Open in Acrobat itself. In the dialogue window that opens, if the JPEG is grayed out, make sure to choose Show All Files from the Show pop-up menu. This will allow you to open the files that are not PDFs. Choose the JPEG and click the Open button. The image will open and you can save it as a PDF, File, Save As, which will allow you to mark up your suggested changes to the designer using Acrobat notes. Next, try opening the PNG file, File, Open. PNG is used quite often on websites, especially for inserting art with a transparent background such as a logo. Well, that worked fine, but the transparent background is just white in the PDF. What about TIFF? Give it a try. File, Open. TIFF is used quite often for high quality pixel images and it opened without a problem. I'd like to try opening one more popular graphics format, BMP, or Bitmap. Go to File, Open, find the BMP and click Open. It works! You can easily see why I call Acrobat the can opener of graphics and images. It literally can open just about any graphics format. After this lesson, put Acrobat to the test. Try opening other graphics formats to see what it can and cannot open. Acrobat could surprise you.

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