A PDF Portfolio contains multiple files assembled into an integrated PDF unit. The files in a PDF Portfolio can be in a wide range of file types created in different applications. For example, a PDF Portfolio can include text documents, e-mail messages, spreadsheets, CAD drawings, and PowerPoint presentations. The original files retain their individual identities but are assembled into one PDF Portfolio file. You can open, read, edit, and format each component file independently of the other files in the PDF Portfolio.
PDF Portfolios has the following advantages over merging multiple files into a single PDF:
- Easily add and deletefiles without having to find and select all the pages that originated in that file.
- Drag and drop the filesto rearrange. You can move files to different folders, or move folders to another folder at the same level in the navigation pane of thePDF Portfolio.
- Quickly preview component files without having to open them in their native applications.
- Change individual files within thePDF Portfoliowithout affecting the other files. For example, you can renumber pages in one document without renumbering other documents in thePDF Portfolio. You can also edit non-PDF files in their native applications from within aPDF Portfolio. Any changes you make are saved to the file within thePDF Portfolio.
- Share aPDF Portfoliowith others and be sure that they are getting all the component parts. Publish aPDF Portfolioon a website for others to view.
- Sort component files by categories that you can add to, delete, hide, and customize. Simply click a column name to sort the list.
- Print all the PDFs in aPDF Portfolio, or selected component PDFs.
- Search one or all files in aPDF Portfolio. You can even search non-PDF component files.
- Add non-PDF files to an existingPDF Portfoliowithout converting them to PDF.
- Independence from source files: The source files of aPDF Portfolio—even existing files you add to thePDF Portfolio—are not changed when you create aPDF Portfolio. Changes you make to the component files within aPDF Portfolio don't change the original files from which you created thePDF Portfolio. You can move aPDF Portfolioanywhere on your computer or network without any risk of losing or disconnecting its components.
- Reuse files. You can include the same file in multiplePDF Portfolios.
