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Adobe Acrobat 5: The Professional User's Guide [Paperback]

Donna L. Baker (Author)
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April 5, 2002 Expert's Voice

Adobe Acrobat 5: The Professional User's Guide is designed for professionals, covering all of the programs major components, and providing thorough instruction on how to use Acrobat as effectively as possible. Throughout the book, renowned author Donna Baker includes a series of "Workflow Tips" designed to give you immediate direction on how to use Acrobat's features, how to make planning decisions, and how to avoid common mistakes. This book also includes a comprehensive project chapter that illustrates a real-life scenario involving project planning and form design processes.

The book is organized into functional sections for ease of use. After a general introduction to Acrobat 5, the book moves on to creation and security issues, and then covers output options, with several chapters devoted to different forms of output. An extensive chapter on Acrobat JavaScript is also included for reference. All topical chapters have projects, tutorials, and demonstrations.

The accompanying CD-ROM includes complete source files from the books projects and tutorials, as well as completed versions of the project files for reference and troubleshooting.


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"Adobe Acrobat 5: The Professional User’s Guide" garners a distinction of "Merit" in the 2002 Technical Publications Competition in Canada. -- Society for Technical Communication, Alberta Chapter

About the Author

Donna L. Baker is an information developer and graphic designer. She is also contributing editor for the online magazine, WindoWatch.com, and is the author of Coursebuilder for Dreamweaver F/X and Design (2002), How to Use Adobe After Effects 5.0 & 5.5 (2002), and Adobe Premiere 6.5 Complete Course (2003). Throughout her career, she has been involved in software, teaching, and knowledge management in different forms, from being a technical writer for a software company to working as a college curriculum developer and instructor. Find out more about Donna and what's new and interesting in her world by visiting her home page, http://www.donnabaker.ca.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 551 pages
  • Publisher: Apress (April 5, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1590590236
  • ISBN-13: 978-1590590232
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,215,165 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Next Level, May 9, 2002
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I teach Acrobat Classes and own(I think) every book that has been published on the topic. Ms. Baker's book is true to it's title. Most of the POWER of Acrobat 5 is not being tapped. She does a great job on tagging and repurposing for accessibility. Her forms section is the best available. Acrobat forms are going to really take off once people understand how powerful they are. If you are thinking about creating e-books. This is a must.
She really does a great job!
If you are serious about pdf, you must own this one.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An aweful book for an aweful program, August 25, 2002
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My only regret in regards to Adobe Acrobat is that I wish I had explored the full version years ago. I dinked around with Acrobat 4.0 and felt it was useful, but awkward with isolated potential for what I needed. v. 5.0 changed my mind on what this program could do, but I still felt I was missing out of what all it was capable of doing. I found Adobe's "Classroom in a Book" helpful, but not much more enlightening than the online help information. Ms. Baker's book gave me all I was looking for, and then some! My hat off to Ms. Baker for writing an indispensable book for what has been an indispensable program for me.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A very good guide for a complex application., June 7, 2002
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This book on Acrobat 5.0 won't scare the uninitiated with its friendly style of delivery and its comprehensive and accurate descriptions of how to get things done. Fonts, creating forms, security settings, and workflows were well explained. Some other aspects were treated in a general way since the possible options and subsequent results would be too job specific.

Anyone needing to know Acrobat should find this book to be a good choice, and will be able to get decent results without having to murder their brain, like they would have to if only using Adobe's Help guide.

Another nice touch is that Donna Baker replies to e-mails: one of mine being to query her mentioning Acrobat PDF Writer, which I thought had disappeared with Acrobat 4.0 /05. Not so, if you use the Custom install. PDF Writer has its limitations, but I always thought it a handy printing / PDF creation option for text documents on older and slower computers.

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