TIME SAVING TIPS FOR TPT SELLERS: ADOBE ACROBAT

Adobe Acrobat is a family of application software and web services that allows users to view, create and edit documents in PDF format. Adobe Acrobat has been been a huge help for creating printable resources for my Teachers Pay Teachers store. Adobe Acrobat allows me to edit PDF documents, secure and flatten PDF documents, combine and rearrange PDF documents, and so much more. In this blog post, I will be sharing the three features of Adobe Acrobat that I love using for all of my products.

EDITING & SECURING PDF DOCUMENTS

Adobe Acrobat allows users to edit PDF documents. Users can add text, images, and links to an existing PDF document. I love to use this feature to add clickable links to my Terms. of Use and Credits page. This allows be to give proper credit to any clipart or font artists that I used in the product creation phase while keeping my PDF document secured and flattened.

Securing PDF documents is very important and is required when selling products through TPT. Securing and protecting any PDF document resource you sell helps to ensure that your work or any clipart used in the creation process from other artists is safe. The last thing you want to do is create a product which probably took you a lot of time and attention and have someone be able to come and copy pieces of your work right from the document, paste it into their own document and call it their work. It is also usually a requirement of any clipart artists that you use to make sure their clipart is secured in your products. They also usually require you to give them credit in some way for using their work. Adobe Acrobat lets you secure PDF documents in three clicks. I like to secure my work with a password. This means that a user would need to type in my password to “unlock” the PDF document and make any changes. As long as no one has my password, my files will remain secure, giving me peace of mind.

COMBINING & ORGANIZING DOCUMENTS

Combining & organizing PDF documents is one of the features I use a lot with Adobe Acrobat. I love that I can create multiple PDF documents and combine them into one larger file if needed. This comes in handy when I have to combine files in two different orientations (landscape and portrait files). For example, if I create a product that I want to offer in both landscape and portrait view for my store, I can create the landscape version in a PowerPoint document, create the portrait version in a separate PowerPoint document (because PowerPoint will not you mix the two orientations together in one document), save each as a PDF document and combine the two files in Adobe Acrobat to make one large file.

Once both documents are combined, I can rearrange the pages to create the page order that I want. This also come in handy when I create a product in landscape view and want to combine it with my standard Terms of Use page (which is in portrait view). Adobe Acrobat makes it so simple to combine files and save.

Thank you for reading this post. What are your favorite features in Adobe Acrobat? Have you tried any of the features I mentioned above? Let me know in the comments below.