KofaxPower PDF Help
  • Welcome
  • Introduction
  • System requirements
  • Custom setup
  • Uninstall Kofax Power PDF
  • Getting started
    • About Portable Document Format
    • About PDF versions
    • XPS file support
    • About the program window
      • Hide and show program window components
    • About the Panel bar
    • About Create Assistant
    • About Convert Assistant
    • About Cloud connectors
  • User Interface
    • File menu
    • Help tab
    • Home tab
    • Edit tab
    • View tab
    • Comment tab
    • Advanced Processing tab
    • Security tab
    • Forms tab
    • Connectors tab
    • Advanced Edit tabs
    • Context-sensitive tabs and groups
      • Header & Footer tab
      • Comment format tabs
      • Home tab in Advanced Edit Mode
      • TypeWriter Format tab
      • Text Format tab
      • Tools tab
      • Font group
      • Paragraph group
      • Positioning group
    • Panels
      • About the panel bar in Advanced Edit mode
    • About the Convert Assistant toolbar
    • About Kofax PDF tabs in integrated applications
  • PDF Creation
    • About creating PDF files
      • Drag and drop files to Power PDF applications
    • How to create PDF documents
      • Create PDF files from the File menu
      • Create PDF files from the Start menu
      • Create PDF files from a Windows context menu
      • Create PDF files from a scanner
      • Create PDF files using the Print command
      • Create PDF files from Document Management Systems
    • About creating PDF files from integrated applications
      • Create PDF files in Microsoft Word
      • Create PDF files in Microsoft Excel
      • Create PDF files in Microsoft PowerPoint
      • Create PDF files in Microsoft Outlook
      • Create PDF files from Outlook email attachments
      • Create PDF files to become email attachments
    • About creation methods
      • Create one PDF per file
      • Combine files into a single PDF
      • Overlaying Files
      • Packaging files into one PDF
    • About saving
      • Saving created PDF files
      • Saving to Document Management Systems
      • Send PDF as email attachment
    • About archiving Outlook items
      • About archiving
      • Archive Outlook items into separate files
      • Merge Outlook items into one PDF
      • Create a PDF package from Outlook items
      • About archiving email attachments
      • Archive folders
    • Settings for PDF creation
      • Change common settings
      • Change printer driver settings
      • Create and modify a tagged PDF
      • Set image compression
      • Make PDF files searchable
      • Change overlay settings
      • Add metadata to a PDF
      • Define custom metadata fields
    • Profiles
      • About Create Assistant profiles
      • Create a new profile
      • Modify a PDF Create profile
      • Delete a profile
    • Create PDF in Internet browsers
  • PDF Editing
    • PDF editing overview
      • Export to Word or Excel and recreate a modified PDF
    • Viewing documents
      • Setting page display
        • Set up a page assembly
      • About zooming pages
        • Set up a Loupe View window
      • Rotating the page view
      • Change page size
      • Set initial view for a PDF document
      • About viewing options
      • Navigation in documents
      • Navigation in folders
    • Secure PDF
      • Security overview
        • About securing PDF
      • Password overview
        • Password security
      • Digital identities overview
        • About digital signatures
        • Time stamping a digital signature
      • Signatures overview
        • Add a signature scheme
        • Sign and certify documents
        • Verify digital signatures
        • Use handwritten signatures
        • Use DocuSign
        • Use Kofax SignDoc
        • Set signature preferences
      • Certificates overview
        • About certificate security
        • Create a self-signed certificate
        • Share security certificates
      • Envelopes overview
        • Create a custom envelope
      • Secure Delivery overview
        • Send PDF documents with secure delivery
      • Security settings overview
        • Security properties
        • Security preferences
        • Set up certificate security
    • About commenting a PDF
      • Commenting overview
        • About working with comments
        • Comment tab
        • Comments panel
          • Navigate in the Comments panel
          • Review comments
          • Export or import comments
          • About filtering and sorting comments
        • Print with comments
        • Spell check annotations
        • Migrate comments
      • About annotation tools and effects
        • About annotating and marking up documents
        • About annotation effects
        • Add a note
        • Reply to a note
        • Links
          • Create a link
          • Change link properties and actions
        • Text boxes and text editing
          • Create and edit text boxes and typewriter texts
        • Callouts
        • Change default annotation and markup object properties
      • About drawing objects
        • Drawing Tools
        • Use stamps
      • About marking up documents
        • Use markup tools
        • Annotation and markup object properties
      • About attachments
        • Attach a file or audio file as a comment
    • Forms
      • About PDF forms
      • Fill forms
      • Import and export form data
      • Prepare forms for distribution
      • Form elements
      • Form Controls panel
      • Create PDF forms
      • Create and edit form fields
      • Define tab order for form fields within a page
      • Form design for use with Form Typer
      • About moving form fields
      • Align form fields
      • Center form fields
      • Distribute form fields
    • Document operations
      • Document Properties
      • About proofreading and searchable PDF
      • Manage favorites
      • Print documents
      • Document Assembly
        • More document assembly tools
      • Collaboration meeting
        • Prepare for a LAN collaboration meeting
        • Join to a LAN collaboration meeting
        • Prepare for an online collaboration meeting
        • Join to an online collaboration meeting
      • Compare PDF documents
      • Compare PDF and Word documents
      • Split a document
      • Headers and Footers
      • About optimizing a PDF
      • About reducing a PDF
      • Remove document elements
      • About flattening documents
      • Create and modify a tagged PDF
      • Manage bookmarks and named destinations
      • Manage packages
      • Manage PDF portfolios
      • PDF handling in Internet browsers and mail systems
      • Send to fax via email
      • Run batch with sequences
      • Create and use a Table of Contents
      • Imposition
        • Save, export or import imposition
        • Set imposition layout
        • Set imposition media
        • Set marks and duplex
        • Imposition layout samples
      • Watermarks
        • Use an existing watermark
        • Create a custom watermark
        • Remove a watermark from a document page
      • Page operations
        • Use basic page operations
        • Work with thumbnails
        • About the Typewriter tool
        • About the Edit Text tool
        • Edit objects
        • Edit page contents
        • Advanced Edit Mode
          • Capitalize first words of sentences automatically
        • Define page actions
        • Use JavaScript
      • 3D graphics
        • Embedded 3D objects toolbar
        • Embed 3D objects in your PDF
        • Model Tree panel
        • The 3D Object context menu
      • Multimedia
        • Add movies
        • Handle movies
        • Add sounds
        • Handle sounds
      • Measuring
        • About measurements
        • Measure distance between two points
        • Measure perimeter of a polygon or connected lines
        • Measure an area of a polygon
      • Reading PDF aloud
        • Read aloud preferences
        • About PDF tagging and reading aloud
        • Cooperation with Jaws
        • Read PDF
    • Searching and indexing
      • About searching
      • Fuzzy search
      • About search options
      • Match types
      • Patterns and masks
      • Search in the active document
      • Search in multiple documents
      • Search by patterns and masks
      • Search with index
        • Search with Boolean operators
        • About indexing PDF documents
          • Prepare to index PDF documents
          • Create a full text index
          • Rebuild or purge an index
          • Embed an index
          • About moving indexed PDF documents
        • Boolean operators
      • Search and markup text
      • Search in a folder
      • Search only in comments
      • Windows Desktop Search
    • Preferences
      • Preferences overview
      • Comment preferences
      • Connectors – preferences
        • Select the preferred iManage connector
        • Add iManage server and set session cache
      • Form preferences
      • General preferences
      • Security preferences
      • Signature preferences
    • Keyboard guide
      • Navigate in the Panel bar
      • Navigate in the View bar
      • Keyboard shortcuts by functional areas
      • Keyboard shortcuts by keystrokes
  • PDF Conversions
    • About PDF conversions
      • Convert pages in Power PDF
    • About Convert Assistant
    • About the Convert Assistant toolbar
    • Starting Convert Assistant
      • Start from the Windows Start Menu, taskbar or Windows Explorer
      • Start from Power PDF
      • Start from Microsoft Word
      • Start from Microsoft Excel or PowerPoint
      • Start from mail systems
      • Start from Internet browsers
      • About starting from a Document Management System
    • Views
      • Full View
      • Quick View
      • Left View
    • Preview panel
    • Processing modes and options
      • Processing modes
      • Select the processing mode
        • Standard panel
        • Legal panel
        • Spreadsheet panel
        • Form panel
    • Output formats and options
      • Output options panel
    • Conversion process
      • About the conversion process
      • Direct conversion
      • Convert area
      • Opening files
        • About opening files
        • Open files from your file system
        • Open files by drag-and-drop
        • Open files from the Cloud
        • Opening files from integrated programs
      • Preview files
      • Remove files from the file list
      • Define file order
      • About defining processing options
      • Define output options
      • Start the conversion
        • Cancel conversion
      • About saving converted files
        • Change the default output folder
        • Change the output file name
        • Save in Microsoft Word
        • Save to a Document Managing System
      • View source and result files
    • About editing after conversion in Word
      • Fonts in Word
      • Tables in Word
      • Frames and text boxes in Word
      • Columns in Word
      • Remove columns in Word
      • Add column breaks in Word
      • Remove column breaks in Word
    • Optical character recognition
      • Built-in OCR
      • Language selection
      • When to use OmniPage
    • PDF file types
      • Image-only PDF files
      • Non-standard encoding
      • Password-Protected PDF files
    • Technical information
      • Icons, error and warning messages about conversion
      • Error during saving to DMS
  • Features in Power PDF Advanced
    • DMS overview
      • Power PDF Advanced in a DMS
      • Create Assistant in a DMS
      • Convert Assistant in a DMS
    • DMS support
      • Open a file in a DMS
      • Save a file to a DMS
      • Insert pages into the current document from a DMS
      • Convert PDF and XPS files from Document Management Systems
    • Integration into DMS
      • About the iManage Add-on toolbar
      • Specify a SharePoint site name
    • Access CaseMap support
    • PDF Compliance Checker
    • Watched Folders and Scan Inboxes
      • Set up a watched folder
      • Use a watched folder
      • Set up a scan inbox
      • Use a scan inbox
    • Accessibility Checker
      • Set up and run an accessibility check
      • Address accessibility issues
      • Accessibility results - Document
      • Accessibility results - Page content
      • Accessibility results - Forms, tables and lists
      • Accessibility results - Alternate text and headings
    • Set up and run batch file conversions
    • Reading Order
    • About redaction and removing document elements
      • Redact content
      • Search and redact text
      • Set redaction properties
      • Use redaction codes
      • Remove document elements
    • Bates numbering
      • Headers and Footers
      • Add bates numbering
      • Remove Bates stamps
      • Bates numbering tutorial
  • Troubleshooting
    • Reader Mode
    • Troubleshooting for PDF Create
    • Troubleshooting for PDF Convert
    • Troubleshooting for Power PDF
  • Dialog boxes and panels
    • PDF Create
      • Bookmarks from Word
      • Combine Settings
      • Comments from Word
      • Compatibility Controls
      • Compression Controls
      • Cover sheet options
      • Destination Controls
      • Destination Settings
      • Document Settings
      • Embed Font Controls
      • File Exists!
      • Links from Word
      • MRC PDF Conversion Settings
      • Overlay
      • Overlay Settings
      • PDF Create Assistant
      • PDF Create Profiles
      • Power PDF Properties
      • Power PDF settings for Excel
      • Power PDF settings for PowerPoint
      • Power PDF settings for Word
      • Print Info
      • Save As
      • Searchable PDF Conversion Settings
      • Searchable MRC PDF Conversion Settings
      • Security Controls
      • Tags from Word
      • Watermark Controls
      • Web Optimizing Controls
    • Power PDF
      • About optimizing a PDF
      • Application languages
      • Area Tool
      • Attachments panel
      • Bookmarks panel
      • Clip Art panel
      • Cell Properties
      • Collaboration panel
      • Color
      • Comments panel
      • Comment preferences
      • Configure Signature Appearance
      • Destinations panel
      • Document Colors Options
      • Document Properties
      • Document Settings
      • Security settings
      • Distance Tool floating window
      • Envelope panel
      • Form Controls panel
      • Form preferences
      • General preferences
      • Headers and Footers
      • LAN Collaboration
      • Layers
      • Link Properties
      • Manage Trusted Identities
      • Model Tree panel
      • New Signature Scheme Wizard
      • OCR Settings
      • Output Options
      • Page Numbering
      • Page Properties
      • Pages panel
      • Password Security
      • PDF Settings
      • Perimeter Tool
      • Permissions
      • Product activation
      • Recent Files
      • Remove Document Elements
      • Read aloud preferences
      • Save As
      • Save As (File)
      • Search panel
      • Security panel
      • Security preferences
      • Settings
      • Settings (Web Page Conversion)
      • Sign/Certify panel
      • Signatures panel
      • Split Document
      • Stamps Panel
      • Tag panel
      • Table of contents settings
      • Text boxes and text editing
      • User Rights Settings
      • Watermarks panel
      • Word Options, Excel Options, and PowerPoint Options
    • PDF Convert
      • Form panel
      • Language selection
      • Legal panel
      • OCR Settings
      • Output options panel
      • Password dialog box
      • Word file open preferences
      • Preview panel
      • Spreadsheet panel
      • Standard panel
    • SharePoint access
      • Open from SharePoint
      • SharePoint sites
      • Connection Settings
 › Getting started

Getting started

This section provides information about the following topics:

  • Portable Document Format

  • PDF versions

  • XPS file support

  • Program window

  • Panel bar

  • Create Assistant

  • Convert Assistant

  • Cloud connectors