Adobe® Acrobat® 5.0 Classroom in a Book [Paperback]

Adobe Creative Team (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0201729377 | ISBN-13: 978-0201729375 | Publication Date: July 6, 2001

Adobe Acrobat is the essential tool for universal document exchange. Acrobat can convert almost any document (including entire Web sites) into a PDF file for distribution, viewing and printing on any computer platform, with its original formatting intact. Fully revised for version 5.0, Adobe Acrobat 5.0 Classroom in a Book contains new lessons and updated projects that cover the basics of learning Acrobat. Some exciting new features of version 5.0 include document review tools (sticky notes, text highlights) that allow multiple reviewers to add electronic comments simultaneously to an online PDF file, conversion tools to save a PDF file to Rich Text Format and repurpose the text in a new document, and Adobe PDF forms for easy online forms. The CD-ROM includes images and lesson files customized for the projects and lessons throughout the book. This official training series from Adobe will appeal to users and creators of PDF files, including publishing companies, production and pre-press designers and clients, and anyone that distributes downloadable written content on the Web.

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From the Back Cover

Adobe Acrobat is the essential tool for universal document exchange. Acrobat can convert almost any document into a PDF file, with its original appearance preserved, for distribution, viewing and printing on virtually any operating system. Adobe Acrobat 5.0 Classroom in a Book is the best way to learn all the key features and abilities of Acrobat. Fully revised for version 5.0, Adobe Acrobat 5.0 Classroom in a Book contains new lessons and updated projects that cover creating and editing PDF files, how to make PDF files available as Web pages, the many new features of version 5.0, and numerous tips and techniques. The companion CD-ROM includes images and lesson files customized for the projects and lessons throughout the book.

About the Author

The Adobe Creative Team is made up of members of Adobe's User Education group. They take their expertise in training users to work with Adobe products, combine it with the creative talents of the Adobe Acrobat team, and add the rich content of the CD-ROM to create a unique learning package from Adobe.

Product Details

• Paperback: 408 pages
• Publisher: Adobe Press (July 6, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201729377
• ISBN-13: 978-0201729375
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,695,787 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Acrobat 5 Review, August 3, 2001

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This review is from: Adobe® Acrobat® 5.0 Classroom in a Book (Paperback)

I just finished the last of the book's 14 lessons. I gave this book a four-star rating because some of the lessons keep using the same tools over-and-over again. It took me about 35 minutes to complete each lesson. If you follow all of the steps, you will have no trouble doing it on your own. Part of lesson 3, Adobe PageMaker is used only to save the exercise; but if you skip that part of the lesson, you still could continue to the end. On the whole, I think that all the lessons are easy to learn.

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars My first return., May 6, 2002

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David Sheppard "Novelsmithing" (Healdsburg, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Adobe® Acrobat® 5.0 Classroom in a Book (Paperback)

I'd never returned a book before, but this one certainly deserved the extra milage. The book plodded along (maybe because of the classroom approach), but what finally convinced me to return it was Page 290, "Creating eBooks". After ONE page of self-evident information, the very last paragraph says, "For more information on designing and creating eBooks, See How to Create Adobe PDF files for eBooks ... available online ......." The problem of course is that a book that lists for [money] should furnish the information. But what got the book its second pair of walking legs is that the referenced book isn't available... Probably doesn't exist at all. Pick another one. You can spend your money better.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars UGH!!, October 30, 2002

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Janine Sutphen (Durham, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe® Acrobat® 5.0 Classroom in a Book (Paperback)

After plodding through many chapters of this book, I am totally exasperated. Not only was the book fraught with errors, but the information was, at best, inadequate. I am an indexer and a Mac user. You cannot create an index in OS X and that is not documented in the book. It is apparent that the authors, Adobe staff, never tested the instructions for the lessons on OS X. in addition, there are too many "check online for information about xxxx" references. If i wanted the information online, I would not have purchased a book. The waste of money is small compared to the waste of my time. One star is definitely a high rating for this book.