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Adobe Acrobat 5: The Professional User's Guide is designed for professionals, covering all of the programs major components, and providing thorough instruction on how to use Acrobat as effectively as possible. Throughout the book, renowned author Donna Baker includes a series of "Workflow Tips" designed to give you immediate direction on how to use Acrobat's features, how to make planning decisions, and how to avoid common mistakes. This book also includes a comprehensive project chapter that illustrates a real-life scenario involving project planning and form design processes.
The book is organized into functional sections for ease of use. After a general introduction to Acrobat 5, the book moves on to creation and security issues, and then covers output options, with several chapters devoted to different forms of output. An extensive chapter on Acrobat JavaScript is also included for reference. All topical chapters have projects, tutorials, and demonstrations.
The accompanying CD-ROM includes complete source files from the books projects and tutorials, as well as completed versions of the project files for reference and troubleshooting.
List of contents
1 Welcome to Acrobat 5.- 2 How Acrobat Works.- 3 Creating PDF Files.- 4 Making Your Documents Secure.- 5 Collaborating on Document Creation and Modification.- 6 Repurposing Content.- 7 Planning and Preparing for Output.- 8 Making Documents Accessible to Everyone.- 9 Indexing and Structuring Documents.- 10 Creating Forms with Acrobat.- 11 Print It!.- 12 Using Advanced Acrobat Activities.- 13 All About E-Books.- 14 Collaborating over Networks.- 15 Putting It All Together.- 16 More on JavaScript.- Appendix A References and Further Information.- Adobe Sites.- Information Sites.- Organizations.- Appendix B Acrobat Plug-ins.- Adobe Plug-ins Included with Acrobat.- Third-Party Plug-ins Included with Acrobat.- Other Plug-ins Used in This Book.- Readers.- Appendix C Adobe Certified Expert Exam Criteria.- Exam Criteria.
About the author
Donna L. Baker created her first Web site in 1991, has worked with CSS virtually since its inception, and has taught courses in CSS and Web design.
Summary
Adobe Acrobat 5: The Professional User's Guide is designed for professionals, covering all of the programs major components, and providing thorough instruction on how to use Acrobat as effectively as possible. Throughout the book, renowned author Donna Baker includes a series of "Workflow Tips" designed to give you immediate direction on how to use Acrobat's features, how to make planning decisions, and how to avoid common mistakes. This book also includes a comprehensive project chapter that illustrates a real-life scenario involving project planning and form design processes.
The book is organized into functional sections for ease of use. After a general introduction to Acrobat 5, the book moves on to creation and security issues, and then covers output options, with several chapters devoted to different forms of output. An extensive chapter on Acrobat JavaScript is also included for reference. All topical chapters have projects, tutorials, and demonstrations.
The accompanying CD-ROM includes complete source files from the books projects and tutorials, as well as completed versions of the project files for reference and troubleshooting.
