Adobe Acrobat 8 Classroom in a Book

by Adobe Creative Team

• ISBN13: 9780321470850
• ISBN10: 0321470850
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback w/CD
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Adobe Press

Summary

No Acrobat user can afford to miss a beat in his or her production and business task workflow--which makes mastering new versions of key tools like Acrobat a problem. Realizing that the users Acrobat 8 is designed for--creative professionals, business users, and technical and engineering professionals --aren't going to interrupt their work schedules to take a class in the software, Adobe has brought the classroom to them in this handy, comprehensive book. Through a series of self-paced lessons (each of which builds on the last and includes hands-on projects that the reader can create using the files on the CD-ROM), this guide acquaints users with all of Acrobat 8's regular and industrial-strength features for creating, reviewing, editing, commenting on, restructuring, and preflighting PDF files, as well as new features in Acrobat 8: securing private information with new redaction tools; creating dynamic and interactive forms; saving PDF files as Word documents; automatically archiving your Outlook emails to PDF; using newly enhanced reviewing and sharing options, and more. Professional tips and techniques are scattered throughout.

Table of Contents

Introducing Adobe Acrobat

Looking at the work area

Creating Adobe PDF files

Creating Adobe PDF from Microsoft Office files (Windows)

Creating Adobe PDF from Microsoft Office files (Mac OS)

Combining files in PDF packages

Creating Adobe PDF from Web pages

Converting email files to Adobe PDF (Windows)

Working with PDF files

Editing PDF documents

More about editing

Using Acrobat in a review cycle

Adding signatures and security

Creating multimedia presentations

Using the engineering and technical features

Using the legal features

Working with forms in Acrobat

Creating forms with Adobe LiveCycle designer (Windows)

Using Acrobat in professional publishing

Making documents accessible and flexible

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