Acrobat 5 is a great product, but Adobe has done a lousy job of communicating its many valuable features and how to use it. Totally unstructured and unintelligible, this book is an example of what happens when computer programmers attempt to communicate in English.
I recently participated in an Acrobat focus group made up of people who use the product in their daily work. Everyone agreed that it's very useful in a wide range of applications, but they all had real difficulties learning how to use it. This book only adds to the problem.
Author(s): Adobe Creative Team
Publisher: Adobe Press
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 370
Table of Contents......Page 4
About Classroom in a Book......Page 9
Starting Adobe Acrobat......Page 10
Copying the Classroom in a Book files......Page 11
Adobe certification......Page 12
Introducing Adobe Acrobat......Page 13
About Adobe PDF......Page 14
About Adobe Acrobat......Page 15
Adobe PDF on the World Wide Web......Page 17
Looking at some examples......Page 18
Designing documents for online viewing......Page 20
Review answers......Page 22
Getting to Know the Work Area......Page 23
Opening the work file......Page 25
Using the Acrobat tools......Page 27
Customizing the toolbars......Page 30
Using Acrobat palettes......Page 31
Using context menus......Page 33
About the on-screen display......Page 34
Navigating the document......Page 35
Following links......Page 42
Printing PDF files......Page 43
Using the Acrobat 5.0 online Help......Page 45
Using Adobe Online......Page 47
Review answers......Page 49
Creating Adobe PDF Files......Page 50
About PDF documents......Page 51
Using an application’s Print command......Page 52
Creating Adobe PDF from a text file......Page 57
Editing text in a PDF file......Page 58
Changing the Distiller job options......Page 61
Adding security to PDF files......Page 66
Converting paper documents to Adobe PDF......Page 70
Converting Microsoft Office application files (Windows)......Page 75
Review answers......Page 76
Customizing Adobe PDF Output Quality......Page 77
Controlling Adobe PDF output quality......Page 78
About compression and resampling......Page 79
Using default compression settings......Page 80
Using custom compression settings......Page 83
Managing color in Distiller......Page 91
Using watched folders......Page 92
Exploring on your own......Page 95
Review answers......Page 96
Putting Documents Online......Page 97
Viewing the work file......Page 98
Setting an opening view......Page 100
Looking at bookmarks and links......Page 101
Adding bookmarks......Page 104
Looking at articles......Page 111
Replacing a page......Page 119
Looking at online document design......Page 120
Exploring on your own......Page 124
Review answers......Page 126
Modifying PDF Files......Page 127
Opening and examining the work file......Page 128
Editing pages......Page 130
Editing text and images......Page 143
Using links and bookmarks to play actions......Page 145
Converting a PDF file to an image format file......Page 149
Exploring on your own......Page 151
Review answers......Page 153
Using Acrobat in a Document Review Cycle......Page 154
Opening the work file......Page 155
Working with comments......Page 156
Digitally signing documents......Page 176
Exploring on your own......Page 184
Review answers......Page 188
Creating Forms......Page 189
Working with forms online......Page 190
Adding form fields......Page 196
Calculating with form fields......Page 212
Creating a Reset Form field......Page 217
Submitting forms over the Web......Page 219
Using the Fields palette......Page 220
Exploring on your own......Page 223
Review answers......Page 224
Creating Adobe PDF from Web Pages......Page 225
Converting Web pages to Adobe PDF......Page 226
Configuring your Internet or proxy settings......Page 227
Setting options for converting Web pages......Page 228
Creating an Adobe PDF file from a Web page......Page 232
Updating converted Web pages......Page 236
Building an Adobe PDF file of favorite Web pages......Page 237
Exploring on your own (Windows)......Page 238
Review answers......Page 240
Designing Online Documents......Page 241
About this lesson......Page 242
Looking at design elements in online documents......Page 243
Creating an online document......Page 252
Creating eBooks......Page 274
Review answers......Page 275
Enhancing a Multimedia Project......Page 276
Opening the work file......Page 277
Adding multiple actions to a button......Page 278
Creating special effects with buttons......Page 282
About movie and sound files......Page 286
Exploring on your own......Page 292
Review answers......Page 295
Managing Color......Page 296
Color Management: An Overview......Page 298
Managing color in Acrobat......Page 303
Previewing overprinting......Page 307
Managing color at print time......Page 312
Review answers......Page 316
Distributing Document Collections......Page 317
Distributing PDF documents......Page 318
Preparing a Welcome document......Page 324
Setting an opening view for the document collection......Page 328
Optimizing for page-at-a-time downloading......Page 331
Indexing your document collection......Page 332
Double-checking the checklist......Page 336
Review answers......Page 338
Building a Searchable PDF Library and Catalog......Page 340
Building an index......Page 341
Searching an index......Page 345
Using Document Info fields in a search......Page 350
Searching with Boolean expressions......Page 352
Choosing Catalog options......Page 354
Exploring on your own......Page 361
Review answers......Page 362
Credits......Page 0
Index......Page 364
