Adobe Acrobat 5 PDF for Dummies [Paperback]

Greg Harvey (Author), John Kaufeld (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0764516523 | ISBN-13: 978-0764516528 | Publication Date: June 15, 2002 | Edition: 1st

What the book covers: The essentials of using Adobe Acrobat. Includes coverage on planning a document for PDF distribution, maintaining the integrity of your fonts and graphics, creating PDFs with Office or the Distiller, updating work with Acrobat, building virtual forms, preparing PDFs for the Web, adding interactivity, indexing a PDF, collaborating on a PDF, securing a PDF, and preparing PDFs for press.
Series features: Includes the friendly, easy, and often humorous reference that has made Dummies the most popular technology book series ever.

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Adobe Acrobat makes it easy to work with complex documents across platforms. But how do you get a handle on all the things you can do with Acrobat? Relax! This friendly reference shows you how to dive right in, from distilling PDF files, capturing Office documents, and converting Web pages to adding hyperlinks, inserting digital signatures, and creating interactive forms.

The Dummies Way
* Explanations in plain English
* "Get in, get out" information
* Icons and other navigational aids
* Tear-out cheat sheet
* Top ten lists
* A dash of humor and fun

About the Author

Greg Harvey is a veteran computer trainer and the author of bestselling For Dummies books on Excel and Windows.

Product Details

• Paperback: 360 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 1st edition (June 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764516523
• ISBN-13: 978-0764516528
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,950,561 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Greg Harvey has authored tons of computer books, the most recent being Excel Timesaving Techniques For Dummies and Roxio Easy Media Creator For Dummies, and the most popular being Excel 2003 For Dummies and Excel 2003 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies. He started out training business users on how to use IBM personal computers and their attendant computer software in the rough and tumble days of DOS, WordStar, and Lotus 1-2-3 in the mid-80s of the last century. After working for a number of independent training firms, he went on to teach semester-long courses in spreadsheet and database management software at Golden Gate University in San Francisco.
His love of teaching has translated into an equal love of writing. For Dummies books are, of course, his all-time favorites to write because they enable him to write to his favorite audience, the beginner. They also enable him to use humor (a key element to success in the training room) and, most delightful of all, to express an opinion or two about the subject matter at hand.
Greg received his doctorate degree in Humanities in Philosophy and Religion with a concentration in Asian Studies and Comparative Religion last May. Everyone is glad that Greg was finally able to get out of school before he retired.

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5 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Auto-fill Acrobat forms, optionally auto-email/fax it out .., January 8, 2003

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This review is from: Adobe Acrobat 5 PDF for Dummies (Paperback)

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