By Rick Borstein – July 21, 2009 In this tutorial, learn how you can use Acrobat 9 to Bates number all of the files in a PDF Portfolio in a single step, even converting common Office formats automatically along the way. Bates Numbering is the consecutive numbering of legal documents. With Acrobat 9 Pro, you can Bates number all of the files in a PDF Portfolio in a single step, even converting common Office formats automatically along the way.

Personal site of author-editor Pat McNees, personal historian and medical historian, bringing a light touch to heavy subjects, helping people and organizations tell. Oct 10, 2010. Electronic productions may be submitted via Secure File Transfer. The SEC cannot accept productions made using file sharing sites. Paper and electronic file collections should be converted to TIFF files, Bates numbered, and include fully searchable text. Adobe PDF File Production.

Keeping all the files in a PDF Portfolio is convenient and makes it easy to deliver and maintain the document set. Want to learn more about PDF Portfolios? PDF Portfolios are the next generation of PDF Packages— a single PDF that may contain many other files. See: Want to know about Bates Numbering in Acrobat 9? Check out this movie which shows off all of the basic Bates Numbering capabilities of Acrobat 9 Professional. See: Still on Acrobat 8? See this on Bates Numbering.

In this article, I'll discuss how you can Bates number across a Portfolio, and also discuss a few limitations. Bates Numbering Across a Portfolio To Bates across a Portfolio: • Close the Portfolio if it is already open. • Choose Advanced >Document Processing >Bates Numbering >Add • Click the Add Files button and locate the Portfolio you wish to process. File Naming Options do not Function Although available, File Naming options in the window above do not work with Portfolios. Acrobat will convert non-PDFs Acrobat will convert any files it knows how to convert (Word, Excel, TIFF, JPEG) etc. During the conversion process.

Graziano Sag 14 Manual. If you use the default Bates setting to overwrite your files it will delete the original files from the Portfolio and replace them with PDF versions! Please follow my recommendation above to use the Output Options window to create a new, Bates-numbered PDF Portfolio. Converting non-PDFs to PDFs in a Portfolio • Want to convert every non-PDF in a Portfolio to a PDF, but not Bates number? Just follow the procedure above, but don't enter anything into the Bates header/footer area.