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PDF--to most of the world it stands for that rather tiresome format used for documents downloaded from the web. Slow to load and slower to print, hopelessly unsearchable, and all but impossible to cut and paste from, the Portable Document Format doesn't inspire much affection in the average user. But PDFs done right is another story. Those who know the ins and outs of this format know that it can be much more than electronic paper. Flexible, compact, interactive, and even searchable, PDF is the ideal way to present content across multiple platforms.

PDF Hacks unveils the true promise of Portable Document Format, going way beyond the usual PDF as paged output mechanism. PDF expert Sid Steward draws from his years of analyzing, extending, authoring, and embellishing PDF documents to present 100 clever hacks--tools, tips, quick-and-dirty or not-so-obvious solutions to common problems.

PDF Hacks will show you how to create PDF documents that are far more powerful than simple representations of paper pages. The hacks in the book cover the full range of PDF functionality, from the simple to the more complex, including generating, manipulating, annotating, and consuming PDF information. You'll learn how to manage content in PDF, navigate it, and reuse it as necessary. Far more than another guide to Adobe Acrobat, the book covers a variety of readily available tools for generating, deploying, and editing PDF.

The little-known tips and tricks in this book are ideal for anyone who works with PDF on a regular basis, including web developers, pre-press users, forms creators, and those who generate PDF for distribution. Whether you want to fine-tune and debug your existing PDF documents or explore the full potential the format offers, PDF Hacks will turn you into a PDF power user.

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Sid Steward is a programmer, writer and entrepreneur. He maintains the PDF Toolkit and wrote PDF Hacks. When he's not working on PDF, he's creating goodies like LookLeap (a better TinyURL), GoJot (social bookmarking meets site commenting), and The Punch Poll. He continually battles entropy and will gladly tell you about G del's incompleteness theorem. Bjarne Stroustrup is one of his heroes. Feel free to contact Sid.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (September 21, 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 296 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780596006556
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Sajid
5.0 out of 5 stars Industrial strength, whether you're a consumer or creator of PDF
Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2010
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In short: I've written software that generates and manipulates PDF for several years now, and this book still had more than a few things to teach me.

Adobe Acrobat/Reader is a very complex piece of software, and like many Adobe products, mastery is more an art than a science. Right from the start, this book provides clearly written tips that make master the beast somewhat more manageable. For those who actually write and manipulate PDFs, the later sections will make your life easier at some point, I can say with some certainty.

Well worth it for anyone who has a PDF-intensive workflow.

Also, you can search for "PDFTK", one of the tools discussed in the book, to find the author's site. There are sample hacks you can read in full to get a better idea of the type of content. And there's of course "Look Inside".
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K. Poetzsch
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book!!!
Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2007
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This book is a god-send for those of us who have to struggle with the often frustrating world of PDF documents on our computers. I was completely confused until I dug into this manual, which is relatively easy for a novice to understand. It has been a great help to me in find answers to problems I had with using PDF on a daily basis. I would highly recommend it.
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John K.
4.0 out of 5 stars Up to Acrobat 6 Only
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2009
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This book has a lot of great, helpful information, but be aware that it stops at Acrobat 6. I don't think any of the reviews here mentioned that.
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Alan
3.0 out of 5 stars Great older PDF book not for current versions questions
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2021
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I was seeking information on stamps, headers/footers, and the “libraries” for them. I used 2017 and now use DC PRO versions. These areas were not covered in my reading....
Smart author but I bought the wrong book apparently.
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András Török de Szendrö
2.0 out of 5 stars Wrong Title -- Should be Called "Acrobat for Windows Hacks"
Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2022
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This is an excellent book, but the title is completely misleading. This boot should have been called "Acrobat for Windows Hacks."
The book is not about PDF's, but about how to hack or extend Adobe Acrobat for Windows from a completely outdated version. Today (2022) the book has only historical value.
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Epi Kid
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2014
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Good book. Good condition. Came on time. Great!
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Harold McFarland
5.0 out of 5 stars I could have used this book on several occassions
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2004
With PDF files everywhere from web sites to help files, sooner or later you will run into a situation where you need to do something to a PDF file. For me the first time I realized I needed to do something I could not was when I needed to take one and convert it to a Word format so I could quickly outline the high points to study for a certification exam. After several hours I finally got it into a text file thanks to a web site that did the conversion. But even then I lost the tables, illustrations, etc. How to do that is one of the hacks included in this book. I wish it were printed a few years ago because it would have made my life easier.

After testing that hack I browsed through the book and kept finding myself asking "You can do that with a PDF file?" There are a lot of good tips in this book from making Acrobat startup faster, to converting PDF files, to automatic timed scrolling for easy reading, to creating a PDF using Word, WordPerfect, OpenOffice, Perl, HTML, PHP, and Java. With page after page of coding, this is a tremendously useful book for anyone who wants to create or edit PDF files or change the way Acrobat works with files. PDF Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools is very highly recommended and will be put on my shelf reserved for books I want to be able to access quickly.
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William M.
1.0 out of 5 stars Sucker born every day & 2 to take him
Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2006
The title is completely misleading.

I purchased this book and software from Broderbund, after reading the reviews posted here at Amazon, believing the book and software would help me covert PDF files that I could not Save or print in its orginal format into ones I could.

I can say for sure,in my opinion, the other reviews of this book led me down the "fools primrose path."

Perhaps I should have read the reviews more carefully.

Of course the fault is entirely mine.
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thecla
5.0 out of 5 stars PDFの世界に飛び込むための最初の本
Reviewed in Japan on September 23, 2004
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PDFファイルを扱うとなると、すでに作られたものを、Acrobat Reader (Adobe Reader) で開く、というのが一般的に固定観念としてあるように感じる。
本書は、Acrobat Reader をいかに使い倒すか、そして、Adobe 製品以外（Microsoft Word に始まってフリーのツールまで）で、PDFをいかに扱うかを本格的に一般に紹介した、最初の本と言えよう。ここでいう「扱う」とは、読む、表示する、はもちろん、作る、分ける、合わせる、形式変換する、などなど多種多様な方法に及んでいる。
まさに Hack のそろった本書から、その機能を最大限、利用するべく、PDF の世界を広げていくといいだろう。
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Dirk van Leeuwen
4.0 out of 5 stars Handling rather than hacking PDFs
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 15, 2011
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A very readable "how to" book. It sets out to show how pdf files can be used, manipulated, altered, made intelligent etc. The book can be read in parts: read first the parts that relate to problems or uses you have.

Oh, and of course you need to get the software it describes to work. :)
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Timothy C. B. Cox
1.0 out of 5 stars Outdated
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 20, 2013
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The content is very old and hasn't been updated for many years. Search the Internet and you will find information,
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