Create PDF from Files

Create a PDF from a file

You can create a PDF from Office, email, a web site, or from any file that prints.

1. Launch Foxit PhantomPDF, choose File > Create > From File, or choose Convert > Create > From Files > From File.

2. In the Open dialog box, select a file. You can browse all file types when you select All Supported Files (*.xls, *.xlt, …) from the File type menu.

3. Select a file you want to convert and click Open to convert the file to a PDF.

4. Type a filename and specify a location in the pop-up Save dialog box.

Note: Depending on the type of file being converted, a progress dialog box appears and Foxit PhantomPDF opens automatically.

Create PDFs from multiple files

You can easily merge files of different types into a single PDF, or you can also convert them into separate PDFs.

1. Choose File > Create > From Multiple Files, or choose Convert > Create > From Files > From Multiple Files, or right-click a file you want to convert to PDF and choose Combine files in Foxit PhantomPDF….

2. In the Convert Multiple Files dialog box, click Add Files… to select the files you want to combine.

3. (Optional) Adjust the order of files as desired by using Move Up/Down, or drag and drop a file to change the file order. Select a file and click the Remove button to delete it.

4. (Optional) When you select a Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, or Excel file, the button named “Choose Pages” or “Choose Sheets” appears next to the Remove button. You can specify a page range of the Word or PowerPoint file or choose sheets in Excel to convert.

5. Choose a type of converted PDF file and click Convert:

l  Convert multiple files to PDF files – All the files will be converted to different PDF files.

l  Merge multiple files into a single PDF file – All the files will be converted to a single PDF file.

    Add a new table of contents page converted from bookmarks: creates a table of contents from the filenames of each file when merging multiple files into a single PDF file.

    Retain the logic page numbers during combination: selects it, and the combined PDF file will keep the logic page numbers in the original files.

Tip: Foxit PhantomPDF uses original filename as a bookmark as default when combining multiple files into a single PDF.