Once you’ve done that, you can share that document’s publicly-accessible link with anyone you’d like to show the file to. Email it directly from the Share dialog box, post it to Facebook, or put it on your website; that link can get around however you choose to share it. If you want to unshare the file, simply toggle the switch from “Public” to “Unshare File”; it will then be marked as private so only you can view it.

 Sounds good, right? Just log in or create a free Acrobat.com account to get started.

If you’re in a self-indulgent mood, check out the latest offer from the ExportPDF team: starting today, you can refer friends to ExportPDF to earn cold, hard cash (to help you afford that getaway, perhaps?). Not only are you getting a little boost, your friends will be introduced to the ExportPDF service to help edit PDF content in their day-to-day work life. You’ll be doing them (and yourself) a favor.

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1. If you made any kind of charitable donation last year or if you had business expenses, or really if you have any deductions for which you need to show documentation, you’ll want to use Acrobat for help with scanning and running OCR on those receipts (learn more…). Not only can you straighten out crookedly-scanned files, you can also use the OCR features in Acrobat to make those documents searchable. Once they’ve been digitized, they’ll be much easier to organize (and much harder to spill coffee on or lose under a pile of junk mail).
2. Your poor accountant is going to face some hard times in the next two weeks: all of us who wait until the last minute to get our taxes in order will be sending over fax after fax after email after email. Take it easy on the poor guy by collecting all those 2012 documents – like Excel spreadsheets, PDF files of investment summaries from your broker, and the aforementioned (and now nicely scanned) receipts – and combining them all into a single PDF file (learn more…). Whatever format those documents were originally in, your tax man will have no trouble viewing them all in the neat PDF document you email to him.
3. Now, let’s be clear: no one is actually encouraging you to doctor up your files for nefarious purposes. However, Acrobat can help you edit your documents (learn more…) to make them more accurate: if anyone spelled your name wrong on a receipt or used incorrect information, you can use Acrobat’s editing tools to neaten up the file. If you don’t want to share certain bits of personal or sensitive information, just use the redaction tools to remove any unnecessary information from a document (learn more…).
4. When you’re finally ready to fill out those forms, don’t bother printing and mailing them (again, fear of coffee spills and loose paper should be warning enough). Here in the United States, the IRS makes most of their forms available as fillable PDF files, which you can complete with Acrobat or even with the free Adobe Reader XI (learn more…). If for some reason you don’t wind up with a fillable PDF form, you can still use the “Add text” tool to fill out the form digitally. Alternatively, just convert the form to Word, Excel and other formats from both Acrobat XI or our online services at Acrobat.com (learn more…). Once you’ve got the forms in those editable formats you can just edit and work within the supported applications.

Taxes are always taxing, but don’t let it get you down: just use Acrobat to keep your files in order and under control. Then, once you’re all done, pack it all up and store it securely in Acrobat.com for archiving and future reference. We bet you won’t even need the next two full weeks to do it.

“Extensions installed by third party programs using external extension deployment options will be disabled by default. When a third party program installs an extension, the Chrome menu will be badged, and users can click through the Chrome menu to see a dialog containing an option to enable the extension or to remove it from their computer.

In addition, all extensions previously installed using external deployment options will be automatically disabled. Chrome will show a one-time prompt to allow the re-enabling of any of the extensions.”

The Adobe Acrobat Create PDF extension for Chrome falls in this category. So, if you have been using this extension, it would be disabled by the latest Chrome upgrade. If that is the case (which means you have missed the one time prompt that Chrome shows to enable extensions after the upgrade), here is what you need to do to enable this. (Click on an image to enlarge it for more detail.)

1. Click “Settings” on the Chrome menu.



2. Select “Extensions”. You will see “Adobe Acrobat – Create PDF” listed there. Check the “Enable” box alongside it. This will enable Adobe Acrobat PDF Creation extension on your Chrome browser.

If you are doing a fresh installation of Acrobat, you will see a green badge on Chrome browser menu (after Acrobat installation is completed). You can then click through the Chrome menu to see a dialog containing an option to enable the extension. Select “Enable extension” to enable Adobe Acrobat PDF Creation extension on your Chrome browser.

Today we’re taking this design freedom one step further by adding a feature that we’ve been asked for quite a lot: the ability to line up your fields side by side on a form instead of stacking them vertically. So now, instead of taking up tons of vertical real estate, you can get the same information in only a teeny bit of space. Now, not only will your forms be beautiful and functional, they’ll also be economically designed.

Nowadays, we’ve got simpler ways of keeping track of our documents and our progress within them. If you’re reading a PDF file in Adobe Acrobat, for example, you can place bookmarks the same as ever (and these ones won’t fall out); you can also use the navigation bar to jump straight to a page in the middle of the document. Our challenge now is this: what happens when you close that document and reopen it on a different device? You don’t want to have to remember where you were and have to flip to the right page, and you definitely don’t want to have to do that every time you reopen that 60-page contract full of legal-speak.

Today’s solution is Acrobat.com. If you’re using Acrobat or Reader 11.0.1 (the latest and greatest), you can now set your preferences to allow for picking up right where you left off. Read through that contract at your own pace; if, at page 43, you find you need to leave your desk for an appointment across town, upload the document to Acrobat.com with a single click. Then, from the train or the cab or the waiting room, use Adobe Reader Mobile on your tablet or smartphone to open that document from Acrobat.com – and you’ll see that the document opens to the same spot you’d left it when you uploaded it from your desktop computer. Now your page number is just one less thing to think about – with no bookmarks to keep track of.