For any course in Digital Graphics, Web Design, Web Scripting and Development, Multimedia, Page Layout, Office Tools, and Operating Systems. These task-based, visual reference guides feature step-by-step instructions and plenty of screen shots to guide students and teachers through the most important tasks. Visual QuickStart Guides are the ideal way to get students up and running quickly, and are used for intermediate and advanced students as a quick reference.
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Using the intuitive, highly graphical style that's typical of the books in this series, PDF with Acrobat 4 Visual Quickstart Guide explains how to use the latest version of Adobe's widely used Portable Document Format (PDF) and the tools that exist to support it. You'll find out how to download Acrobat files from the Web and view them with Acrobat reader, and you'll get full information on how to use the new features of Acrobat 4, including annotations, bookmarks, and document comparisons. There's quite a lot of information on Acrobat Web publishing and Acrobat's multimedia capabilities too.
PDF with Acrobat includes plenty of illustrations--you'll find it easy to follow along with procedures as you match what's on your screen to the book's screen captures. The author does a good job of explaining the Acrobat utilities as they exist in both Windows and Macintosh environments, providing screen shots from both operating systems when he explains operations (like printing) that differ on the two platforms. The only fault is the lack of a companion CD-ROM containing Acrobat Reader. But the inconvenience is minor since you can get the program free of charge on the Web. --David Wall
Topics covered: Acrobat Reader, Acrobat Distiller, Acrobat PDF Writer, and Acrobat Capture, as well as the Acrobat editor itself.
From the Back Cover
We've all been there: You receive a document from someone but can't open it because the sender created it on a PC and you use a Mac. Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) was designed to alleviate that frustration, and it's quickly become the cross-platform standard. If you need to send and receive documents without losing any of the formatting, you need PDF with Acrobat 4: Visual QuickStart Guide. This edition covers all the latest Acrobat features--including the new annotation and document-management tools--in the popular Visual QuickStart Guide style. That means concise, step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots and helpful tips. If you're new to the program, you can start with such basic topics as creating and editing PDF files, while veterans can use the handy tabbed format to page straight to more advanced sections, such as using PDFs on the Web.
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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
A terrible disappointment,
By A Customer
This review is from: PDF with Acrobat 4 (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)
I bought this book because I am brand new to Adobe Acrobat and wanted to learn it from a printed source. I really hate to pan this book, because I really wanted to like it. But pan it I must. The flaws in it are many and serious, including the miniscule screen shot reprints which you can't read, references to selecting items from menus with no direction as to how to get to the menu in the first place, and poor organization (I don't want to start with two entire sections on how to use the Adobe Reader for Acrobat, I want to know how to use Acrobat to make, change, and use my own PDF documents.) Since the Acrobat software does not come with a printed manual (a large electronic help manual comes with the program), this book could have filled a huge gap for people who want to put a book in front of them while actually doing work. This book sadly doesn't even come close to what it could have and should have been, in my opinion. I will keep on looking for another book that does it right.
26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Useful as quick entry point, but no more,
This review is from: PDF with Acrobat 4 (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)
The book is useful as a way of getting an overview of Acrobat 4 commands, but is short on the concepts behind them. I found a number of errors on the Windows side of things (p26 - A double click is needed to view pages, not a single click; p48 - EPS files will not work as a basis for 2+ page PDFs; p96 - incorrect illustration; p132 - over-complicated radio-button technique for form).I wasn't convinced that the authors had spent enough time getting to know Acrobat 4, which is a good product.
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Quick and straight forward description of the key features,
By A Customer
This review is from: PDF with Acrobat 4 (Visual QuickStart Guide) (Paperback)
This book helps you to get known to Adobe Acrobat 4.0's features in no time. It could actually explain the menus a little bit more detailed and tell more about the differences between the Macintosh and Windows version but in general I would say the book is a good buy for those who want to learn the key features of the software in no time.
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