• Author:
  • Padova, Ted
  • Rosenbaum, Sarah
• Subject:
  Business Applications
• Published by:
  John Wiley & Sons Inc (US)
• Published:
  01/10/2003
• Price:
  $67.99
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* One of the most authoritative and comprehensive books on Adobe's Acrobat and PDF (Portable Document Format) by the leading Acrobat guru, enhanced and expanded to cover the latest release of Acrobat
* Features complete coverage of using Acrobat and PDF for print prepress, the Internet, CD-ROMs, and all the new media
* Packed with real-world insights and techniques gained from the author's daily use of Acrobat and PDF under deadline situations
* Acrobat and its file format, PDF, have become the standard for portable documents, including everything from high-resolution color files destined for print to Internet and e-book content; more than 200 million copies of Acrobat Reader have been downloaded for use on all popular operating systems
* CD-ROM features an interactive, bookmarked, and indexed Acrobat interface, a searchable PDF version of the book, and scores of useful plug-ins and trial software

Ted Padova is author of the successful Acrobat 5 PDF Bible and Creating Adobe Acrobat Forms, as well as the upcoming Acrobat “X” Complete Course. He is arguably the #1 Acrobat guru in the field today, and is the Chief Executive Officer of The Image Source – a digital imaging and photo finishing center in Ventura California and other locations. As a speaker, he has delivered presentations on digital prepress, halftoning and Photoshop methods nationally on behalf of Thunder Lizard Productions speaking at both the Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator conferences. Additional speaking engagements have been provided on behalf of Adobe Systems, Aldus Corporation and Iomega Corporation.  He has written a feature column for the Los Angeles Macintosh User Group Magazine and has published over 40 journal articles on digital prepress and application software methods. Padova has been featured in Macweek, Publish, and other industry magazines.

Foreword.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Part I: Welcome to Adobe Acrobat Professional.

Chapter 1: Getting to Know Adobe Acrobat.

Chapter 2: Using Acrobat Viewers.

Chapter 3: Viewing and Navigation in Adobe Acrobat.

Chapter 4: Searching PDF Files.

Part II: Converting Documents to PDF.

Chapter 5: Converting to PDF from Adobe Acrobat.

Chapter 6: Exporting to PDF from Authoring Applications.

Chapter 7: Using Acrobat Distiller.

Part III: Editing PDFs.

Chapter 8: Editing Text.

Chapter 9: Editing Images.

Chapter 10: Editing Pages.

Chapter 11: Scanning and OCR Conversion.

Chapter 12: Exports and Imports.

Chapter 13: Repurposing PDF Documents.

Part IV: PDF Interactivity.

Chapter 14: Review and Comment.

Chapter 15: Links and Actions.

Chapter 16: Multimedia and PDFs.

Chapter 17: Working with Layers.

Chapter 18: Accessibility and Tagged PDF Files.

Part V: PDF Publishing.

Chapter 19: Authentication and Security.

Chapter 20: PDFs and the Web.

Chapter 21: PDF and Presentations.

Chapter 22: PDF and eBooks.

Chapter 23: Printing and Prepress.

Chapter 24: Distributing PDF Documents.

Part VI: Acrobat PDF Forms.

Chapter 25: Understanding the Form Tools.

Chapter 26: Working with Form Data.

Chapter 27: Understanding JavaScript.

Appendix A: What’s on the CD-ROM?

Appendix B: Keyboard Shortcuts.

Index.

End-User License Agreement.