User manual

Working with engineering documents
Acrobat 7.0 Professional offers improved PDF creation from popular engineering
applications, including Autodesk AutoCAD and Microsoft Visio. Commenting tools are
improved for the engineering user.
● Improved PDF creation options. You can convert many office and engineering application
files to PDF without leaving your application, and PDF files created using PDFMaker in
AutoCAD are now much smaller. You can convert multiple layouts in an AutoCAD
drawing into a single PDF file, and even choose which layouts you want converted. Large
format documents are handled easily, both in terms of navigation and creation.
● Measuring toolbar. The measuring tools are especially useful when you want to determine
the width, height, or area of objects in a form or CAD drawing, or when you want to
measure certain areas of a document before sending it to a commercial printer.
● Object-level data. When converting a Visio drawing to Adobe PDF, you can embed object-
level custom properties into the PDF document. These properties get converted to object
data, which can be viewed when the PDF file is opened in Acrobat.
● Importing comments. You can import comments and markups from a PDF document
directly into Word documents using Word 2002 and later, and into AutoCAD drawings.
You can even safely import comments and markups into documents that have already
been edited.