How to Do Everything with Adobe® Acrobat® 6.0 (Windows) [Paperback]

Doug Sahlin (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0072229462 | ISBN-13: 978-0072229462 | Publication Date: June 12, 2003 | Edition: 2

There’s so much more to Acrobat than the application that pops up when you double click a file with a PDF extension. Learn how and why major corporations, software manufacturers, and businesses use the full version of Acrobat to create and publish documents for electronic distribution.

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From the Back Cover

Harness the power of Adobe Acrobat to create and publish sophisticated PDF (Portable Document Format) documents. From simple memos to interactive forms, learn why Acrobat is the tool for any electronic publishing task--including projects that require multimedia. Create, enhance, and edit PDF documents, or use the Internet to share working PDF documents for review or mark-up. How to Do Everything with Adobe Acrobat 6.0 will help you master the many different components and purposes of this premier solution for creating and publishing documents for electronic distribution.

• Create documents for electronic distribution
• Publish across a wide variety of platforms--including the Internet
• Share business plans, spreadsheets, brochures, and more
• Edit within a PDF--review and add comments in multi-author environments
• Convert almost any document to PDF for storing, sharing, or publishing
• Capture PDF documents from Web pages, scanners, digital cameras, and more
• Collect and sort data from users with PDF forms
• Integrate sound and movie files into your PDF documents to create multimedia presentations
• Add digital signatures and document security
• Understand all the latest features--including the new toolset

About the Author

Doug Sahlin (Lakeland, FL) is an author, graphic designer, and Web site designer living in Central Florida. He is the author of ten books on graphic design including How to Do Everything with Adobe Acrobat 5.0 and is currently writing How to Do Everything with Macromedia Contribute. Sahlin’s articles and product reviews have appeared in national publications such as Computer Graphics World, 3D Magazine, Video Systems, and Corel Magazine. His tutorials have been featured at numerous Web sites devoted to graphic design.

Product Details

• Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 2 edition (June 12, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072229462
• ISBN-13: 978-0072229462
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,618,937 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Doug Sahlin is a graphic and website designer, photographer, and the author of several books, including How to Do Everything with Adobe Acrobat 8.

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32 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Very helpful in my job., July 30, 2003

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Michael J Woznicki "Michael J Woznicki" (Holland, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Do Everything with Adobe® Acrobat® 6.0 (Windows) (Paperback)

I installed Acrobat 6 and began working on a project. I thought it would be like working with a typical word processor, how wrong I was. I am glad I was able to use this book to point out how there is so much more Acrobat does.

I found out how to integrate Acrobat with Office, how I can create PDFs in Acrobat and how Acrobat works in creation of web pages and websites.

The book has a wealth of information on conversion from one format to another, multimedia, printing and something I never knew you could do create search queries.

The book has taught me several things in a short time frame and overall I found this book very useful.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The operative word here is "Lightweight", March 13, 2005

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Geoff Lilley "MS Office Junkie, Poetry Lover,... (Sacramento, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Do Everything with Adobe® Acrobat® 6.0 (Windows) (Paperback)

I'm still searching for a really amazing, knock my socks off Adobe Acrobat book, that will take me beyond what I could find in the Acrobat help, or figure out myself. I can capably make a PDF from Word or any other application, I don't care about embedding multimedia, and I still see a sore need to find a book that covers forms really well. This book fails both the breadth test and the depth test; it might as well be one of the "dummies" books. Thanks for nothing!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Should Be Better, August 8, 2004

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This review is from: How to Do Everything with Adobe® Acrobat® 6.0 (Windows) (Paperback)

I purchased this book for an overview of Acrobat 6.0. While there is some good info, too much is not explained fully. There are constant cross references "see chapter 8", no page reference and the bulk of the book is for the pro version. The author spends a lot of time using fancy nomenclature (not technical terms) instead of offering better tips. I would love to see a Special Edition Using Acrobat from Que Publishing. That series is excellent for learning software. I will look for a better book.