How to do Everything with Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) 5.0 [Paperback]

Doug Sahlin (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0072195118 | ISBN-13: 978-0072195118 | Publication Date: November 26, 2001 | Edition: 1

Another release in the extremely popular How to Do Everything series, this friendly, solutions-oriented book is filled with step-by-step explanations of the various techniques needed for opening and publishing all types of documents in a wide range of platforms using Adobe Acrobat. You'll learn to create and index PDFs and share and edit documents over the Internet.

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From the Back Cover

Take Adobe Acrobat far beyond reading PDF (Portable Document Format) documents. Learn to harness the power of Adobe Acrobat--and create and publish sophisticated electronic documents you never thought possible. From simple electronic memos to indexed electronic catalogs, Acrobat is the powerful, flexible 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 will help you master the many different components and purposes of this premier electronic document sharing software.

• Convert documents to PDF and e-mail
• Capture PDF documents from Web pages, scanners, digital cameras, and more
• Publish--and frequently update--a technical or educational e-book
• Create a linked table of contents or thread of linked articles
• Integrate sound and movie files into your PDF documents to create multimedia presentations
• Accumulate data from users with PDF forms
• Develop a navigation structure with links, PageActions, buttons, and menus
• Share documents--review and add comments in multi-author environments
• Optimize documents for print, Web, or CD-ROM applications
• Index a searchable catalog of PDFs

About the Author

Doug Sahlin is a digital artist, Web site designer and computer book author who lives in Lakeland, Florida. In addition to writing numerous magazine articles on Web design and graphics, he is the author of Carrara 1 Bible and Carrara 1 for Dummies, both from IDG books. He also develops Flash 4 courses for Digital Think.

Product Details

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (November 26, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072195118
• ISBN-13: 978-0072195118
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,991,588 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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54 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gain A Greater Appreciation For Adobe Acrobat!, February 2, 2002

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Jim Moran - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to do Everything with Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) 5.0 (Paperback)

Adobe's Acrobat program is one of the premier software solutions available today for creating and sharing PDF documents. The PDF file format (Portable Document Format), is one of the more popular methods of sharing documents online. It offers special security features and maintains uniform viewing of files across platforms. Document page layouts, including fonts and formatting are retained.

How to Do Everything With Adobe Acrobat 5.0 by Doug Sahlin provides extensive documentation and instruction on the use of the latest edition of this leading program. Sahlin demonstrates through the use of screenshots and discussion how Acrobat can easily take captured data and documents, including Web pages, and create professional looking PDF documents for sharing with others.

The book is thoughtfully divided into four sections - an introduction to Adobe Acrobat, creating PDF documents, editing PDF documents, and distributing PDF documents. Book content is extraordinarily well-structured, easy to read, and understandable. Readers may begin reading at the point they feel most comfortable with. Newbies to Acrobat are encouraged to start at the front. More advanced users may focus upon their specific areas of interest.

Major strengths of the book include readability, attention to detail, and the comprehensive coverage of Acrobat features. Readers will learn nearly everything there is to know about Acrobat - gathering and capturing data from a variety of sources, integrating audio and video files to create multimedia presentations, editing and formatting content, adding digital signatures, using document security features, optimizing files, preparing files for use on the Internet, saving and viewing files, and much more. Readers will also learn how to integrate the use of other programs with Acrobat to create file content - including OmniPage Pro 11, PageMaker, and Publisher.

Readers will gain a greater appreciation for Acrobat as a serious publishing tool. It provides smooth conversion of data and existing documents into a format accessible by millions of people around the world - business people, attorneys, engineers, researchers, educators, Web developers, writers, and hobbyists. This is must reading for anyone who wants to use Adobe Acrobat to its full potential as a powerful publishing tool!

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous Acrobat Book, March 16, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: How to do Everything with Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) 5.0 (Paperback)

Finally a complete book on Acrobat. Don't even waste your money on the Adobe Classroom book on Acrobat. Really expensive and useless. You won't have a clue of what Acrobat really is used for after looking through that. This how to book is somple to read, written in an easy, engaging manner, and gets down to the facts quickly. I woulld highly recommend this one. Thanks to the author for FINALLY writing a comprehansive book on a subject that really needed one

38 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Excited to receive -- Disappointed after reading!, May 18, 2002

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G Castillo (WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to do Everything with Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) 5.0 (Paperback)

I purchased this book because of the great reviews it received. Wow, what a disappointment! I agree that it is written well and easy to understand, but it is a far cry from learning EVERYTHING about Acrobat 5.0! I am a beginning user so I did learn many things I did not know before, but it tires me when authors waste over 200 pages discussing past versions, especially when one of those is Acrobat READER (the free program). "EVERYTHING" does not mean mentioning a feature or function of the subject program, then referring the reader to yet another book to find out HOW to use the feature. Maybe using the 200 pages for this purpose would have been much better.