Is there a plug-in to de-skew pages in Acrobat? ?Lou Ambrosini

Is it an image that has previously been scanned in less than perfect and simply placed as a page in Acrobat? If so, then you can open the image from Acrobat directly into Photoshop and carry out any corrections there. It works OK for the odd one or two. --Peter

De-skew is a feature built into Acrobat 6.0 Professional. Use the "PDF Optimizer" (from the menu bar, select 'Advanced,' then select PDF Optimizer from the drop down menu ). Select the "Adaptive Compression" option (check box near the bottom under the images tab). This will automatically de-skew, de-spec, reduce file size, etc. for PDF files. PDF Optimizer is an ideal tool for use on scanned images to improve the image and reduce the file size. For enhanced batch processing of PDF files using the PDF Optimizer in Acrobat 6.0 Professional, look at PDF-Batch-Optimizer. --Steve Harris

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