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Donna L. Baker (Author)
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0321470818 978-0321470812 February 22, 2007 1
Increase your productivity with Acrobat, one technique at a time.

Now that PDF has become the ubiquitous electronic document format, it’s important to recognize that there’s much more to Adobe Acrobat than just managing your documents and improving workflow. With this powerful tool, you can now communicate with new commenting tools, collaborate with individuals and teams, automate forms, provide additional security, use redactive tools, and accom-plish tasks for greater productivity and efficiency. But with all this power, how do you bring your Acrobat skills up to speed quickly? Never fear, Acrobat expert Donna L. Baker has picked out the most integral techniques for accomplishing nearly any office communication task. You’ll be expanding your PDF skills in no time in this focused, handy guide. Here are just some of the things you’ll learn to do:
  • Conduct searches quickly by building an index and attaching it to files
  • Merge multiple files into a single PDF document and create a custom cover
  • Create comments in PDF documents, start a review, and work with comments
  • Use new form tools in Acrobat 8 for drawing fields, tracking responses,  and creating a form automatically
  • Set up an online meeting in Acrobat Connect• Add movies and 3D content, and create interactive presentations
  • Assign levels of security and passwords to documents using new hashing algorithm support in Acrobat 8


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About the Author

Donna L. Baker, an expert in online training and design, motion graphics design, and interactive knowledge prod-ucts, has worked for years as an information development consultant. Donna is the author of Adobe Acrobat 8 in the Office, and many other books and articles. Her writing has been featured on PlanetPDF and Adobe Studio Web sites, and she contributes a regular article to AcrobatUsers.com. Visit her Web site at www.donnabaker.ca. 

Product Details

  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Adobe Press; 1 edition (February 22, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0321470818
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321470812
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 7 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,063,579 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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41 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Accompanyment to Acrobat 8, July 19, 2007
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Acrobat is pretty straight-forward software. There are certain tasks you want to accomplish with it, and they're not the kinds of things you want to devote unlimited hours to.

Baker understands this and has taken the perfect approach with her book. She takes 125 of the most common tasks Acrobat can perform and devotes several pages to each. She's identified the tasks with the greatest common interest and explains how to do each one clearly and concisely.

For heavy-duty Acrobat users, it saves you time from searching out how to do that one task you know Acrobat does, but can't easily find explanations for. For new - or very occasional - users of Acrobat, it highlights some of the capabilities you might not have been aware of, but will likely find useful.

Acrobat is incredibly powerful software that provides a 'better way' for doing many things. Great to have a book that identifies those many things and clearly explains how to do them.
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34 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Enables me to use Adobe 8!, March 29, 2007
This review is from: Adobe Acrobat 8 How-Tos: 125 Essential Techniques (Paperback)
I found the software to be somewhat un-user-friendly. This book clearly and concisely took me through some of the basic questions I had regarding utilizing and setting up documents. It is very basic so if you're looking for something with advanced techniques, this isn't it. Over all I found it quite helpful.
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Not a book for novices, October 27, 2007
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As a casual user, I had hoped this book would give me an insight into the capabilities of Acrobat, and the procedures needed to execute them.

But I think the book is aimed at advanced users who already know the program, and appreciate its features, and simply need a reference to recall some of the more complicated lesser used options.

I found the explanations cumbersome and difficult to follow. There are few if any, examples of how a feature would be used in the day to day routine of business.




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security envelope, combine files, stamp tool, print production, crop pages, change conversion settings, add bookmarks, document processing, model tree, properties bar, click the pages, delete pages, text box, migrated comments, parent bookmark, clipboard image, watched folder, batch sequence, shared review, message bar, conversion settings, task button, comment tool, signature field, custom stamp
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Comments List, Adobe Reader, Choose Edit, Choose File, Advanced Editing, Document Message Bar, Choose Advanced, Getting Started, More Tools, Making Your Documents Secure, Click Next, Choose View, Acrobat Distiller, Button Properties, Examine Document, Click Close, Document Properties, Choose Tools, Read Out Loud, Watched Folders, Bookmark Properties, Click Settings, Transforming Document Pages, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Office
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