The American Society for Indexing held a Virtual Special Event, Indexing Life Hacks, on Tuesday, December 5, 2023. Four sessions were presented virtually via Zoom. In the first session, Kendra Millis discussed hacks to use when working with PDFs in Show Those PDFs Who’s Boss.
She explained why indexers should learn to make changes to PDFs:
- Making changes yourself is faster than requesting new PDFs from the client.
- You can modify the PDF to suit your needs.
- Handling it yourself makes life easier for your client.
She explained and showed what changes can be made:
- Making PDF pages match the text pages.
- Cropping pages to remove extra white space.
- Changing spreads into single pages.
- Extracting notes pages into a separate file.
- Resaving a file to work around security settings.
- Removing watermarks.
- Combining chapter files into one master file.
She also explained what can’t be changed:
- Full password protected files.
- Removing line numbers and some watermarks.
I will focus on the next sessions of the ASI Virtual Event: Indexing Life Hacks in successive blog postings. For more information about the services provided by the author of this blog, see the Stellar Searches LLC website, http://www.stellarsearches.com.