Acrobat 6 and PDF Solutions [Paperback]

Taz Tally (Author), Taz Tally Ph.D. (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0782142737 | ISBN-13: 978-0782142730 | Publication Date: February 16, 2004

"If Taz writes a book, I can tell you this--I WANT IT!"
Scott Kelby, President, National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP)

With Acrobat 6, Adobe has delivered a vastly improved product that streamlines and fortifies document exchange using PDF. Rich with sophisticated new features and an enhanced interface, Acrobat 6 gives business, creative, engineering, and now prepress professionals greater control over high-quality document exchange and review.

Acrobat 6 and PDF Solutions offers expert instruction on putting this complex tool to good use. With his characteristic enthusiasm, acclaimed instructor and author Taz Tally introduces you to key features and techniques, then leads you through real-world tutorials that reinforce the material. In addition to a complete tour of Acrobat 6, you get an in-depth guide to creating PDF documents and working with Distiller and other PDF creation workflows. Productivity tips and automations throughout help you work faster and more accurately.

Inside, you'll discover the ins and outs of Acrobat Standard and Professional versions, including how to:
* Implement an effective PDF workflow
* Create catalogs, e-books, multimedia presentations, and web pages from your documents
* Build PDF order forms with specially formatted data-entry fields
* Set up collaborative review of documents
* Control access to and use of your PDFs
* Edit text and graphics in PDF files
* Use PDFs and Acrobat with Photoshop
* Control import and export of PDF contents
* Run preflight and on-screen proofing on PDFs
* And more!

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From the Back Cover

"If Taz writes a book, I can tell you this--I WANT IT!"
Scott Kelby, President, National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP)

With Acrobat 6, Adobe has delivered a vastly improved product that streamlines and fortifies document exchange using PDF. Rich with sophisticated new features and an enhanced interface, Acrobat 6 gives business, creative, engineering, and now prepress professionals greater control over high-quality document exchange and review.

Acrobat 6 and PDF Solutions offers expert instruction on putting this complex tool to good use. With his characteristic enthusiasm, acclaimed instructor and author Taz Tally introduces you to key features and techniques, then leads you through real-world tutorials that reinforce the material. In addition to a complete tour of Acrobat 6, you get an in-depth guide to creating PDF documents and working with Distiller and other PDF creation workflows. Productivity tips and automations throughout help you work faster and more accurately.

Inside, you’ll discover the ins and outs of Acrobat Standard and Professional versions, including how to:

• Implement an effective PDF workflow
• Create catalogs, e-books, multimedia presentations, and web pages from your documents
• Build PDF order forms with specially formatted data-entry fields
• Set up collaborative review of documents
• Control access to and use of your PDFs
• Edit text and graphics in PDF files
• Use PDFs and Acrobat with Photoshop
• Control import and export of PDF contents
• Run preflight and on-screen proofing on PDFs
• And more!

About the Author

Prepress "guru" Dr. Taz Tally is a Ph.D. and author of Avoiding The Output Blues, Avoiding the Scanning Blues, and his Electronic Publishing textbook. He has also created numerous training videos and CDs, and authored textbooks used throughout the industry. He is in demand nationally as a presenter on topics related to pre-press and graphics, and writes a regular prepess column for Photoshop User. More than 30,000 graphics professionals have attended his seminars.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Sybex (February 16, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782142737
• ISBN-13: 978-0782142730
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,525,711 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A bargain of a book for content and price., May 9, 2004

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"akferrets" (Anchorage, AK United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Acrobat 6 and PDF Solutions (Paperback)

This book is a thorough presentation on the subject of portable document formats or PDFs. PDFs, independent of platform and application, are a saving grace in the growing complexity of the computer world. Taz Tally's book addresses the variables involved in optimizing PDFs, starting from the creation of the original document all the way to the end product, the PDF. The book explains how to customize each file depending on its use. The author also covers manipulations of Acrobat Distiller and the versatile application Acrobat 6.

The book is well written and repetitive enough so if the reader missed the message on the first round, he or she will catch it again within just a few pages. The summaries, tables, and screen samples are particularly good and support the text. The author's style is as conversational as it gets within a technical book. I enjoyed his exclamations and honesty.

I am always interested in the completeness of the index since I often have the need to solve a specific problem. The sixteen-page index held enough detail to locate a reference in the book rather than having to search from page to page. The table of contents is also complete and easy-to-use.

This Sybex manual is an excellent resource for folks creating forms, presentations, and collaborative publications as well as learning about the more conventional conversion of digital documents to PDFs. This edition comes with a CD of material supporting the text including a demo of Sonar Bookends for automatic hyperlinking (to create a table of contents, an index, and more), FlightCheck, a prepress problem identifier, and a trial version of PitStop for visually checking and editing PDFs.

Dr. Tally is author of Avoiding the Scanning Blues, a guide to desktop scanning, and Electronic Publishing: Avoiding the Output Blues, a book on desktop publishing and Postscript files. Tally is also known for his entertaining seminars and instructional videos on a variety of computer topics.