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24 Easy Ways to Improve Your PDFs with TimeSavers/Assistants

Improve your PDFs (authored in FrameMaker) using features available with FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers or Assistants (TimeSavers add-ons) -- easily, automatically and consistently!

  1. Control the document title effectively, and display it in the title bar
  2. Improve bookmark hierarchy and visibility
  3. Add bookmarks to e-mail feedback or web page
  4. Make bookmark text easy to identify
  5. Add direct Table/Figure bookmarks and group these together
  6. Indicate new/updated features with quick-access bookmarks
  7. Use popup menus to display additional, context-related choices
  8. Display additional information without switching to a different page/file
  9. Use Acrobat notes to provide additional information
  10. Set specific cross-PDF links to open a new window
  11. Author attractive PDF presentations
  12. Specify consistent PDF named destinations
  13. Add bookmarks/links to movies or audio files (embedded or referenced)
  14. Reduce PDF file size by removing unused named destinations
  15. Specify any Acrobat action for links/bookmarks/pages from within FrameMaker
  16. Include pre-defined search queries through bookmarks or links
  17. Define focused links/bookmarks to external PDFs or help files
  18. Embed (attach) files in PDFs
  19. Control visual properties of links
  20. Set page labels
  21. Integrate 3D models in product documentation for more efficient communication
  22. Create interactive/fillable PDF checklists and e-forms
  23. Enhance interactivity/search with buttons and and text fields
  24. Attach a search index to your PDFs

"I love these PDF enhancements. Our customers' first impression of our product is our PDF documentation and we like the PDFs to look very sharp." -- George N. Lawrence, Applied Optics Research, Woodland, WA