Adobe Acrobat 8 How-Tos: 125 Essential Techniques
Increase your productivity with Acrobat, one technique at a time.
Now that PDF has become the ubiquitous electronic document format, it?s important to recognize that there?s much more to Adobe Acrobat than just managing your documents and improving workflow. With this powerful tool, you can now communicate with new commenting tools, collaborate with individuals and teams, automate forms, provide additional security, use redactive tools, and accom-plish tasks for greater productivity and efficiency. But with all this power, how do you bring your Acrobat skills up to speed quickly? Never fear, Acrobat expert Donna L. Baker has picked out the most integral techniques for accomplishing nearly any office communication task. You?ll be expanding your PDF skills in no time in this focused, handy guide. Here are just some of the things you?ll learn to do:
- Conduct searches quickly by building an index and attaching it to files
- Merge multiple files into a single PDF document and create a custom cover
- Create comments in PDF documents, start a review, and work with comments
- Use new form tools in Acrobat 8 for drawing fields, tracking responses, and creating a form automatically
- Set up an online meeting in Acrobat Connect? Add movies and 3D content, and create interactive presentations
- Assign levels of security and passwords to documents using new hashing algorithm support in Acrobat 8
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Adobe Acrobat 8 How-Tos: 125 Essential Techniques Reviews
Not a tutorial for Adobe Acrobat. The book contains 125 quick examples of advanced features (and not so advanced) that gets the user up to speed quickly.
I found the explanations cumbersome and difficult to follow. As a casual user, I had hoped this book would give me an insight into the capabilities of Acrobat, and the procedures needed to execute them. But I think the book is aimed at advanced users who already know the program, and appreciate its features, and simply need a reference to recall some of the more complicated lesser used options. There are few if any, examples of how a feature would be used in the day to day routine of business.
Acrobat is pretty straight-forward software. For new - or very occasional - users of Acrobat, it highlights some of the capabilities you might not have been aware of, but will likely find useful. There are certain tasks you want to accomplish with it, and they're not the kinds of things you want to devote unlimited hours to. Acrobat is incredibly powerful software that provides a 'better way' for doing many things. Baker understands this and has taken the perfect approach with her book.
She takes 125 of the most common tasks Acrobat can perform and devotes several pages to each. For heavy-duty Acrobat users, it saves you time from searching out how to do that one task you know Acrobat does, but can't easily find explanations for. She's identified the tasks with the greatest common interest and explains how to do each one clearly and concisely. Great to have a book that identifies those many things and clearly explains how to do them.
It is very basic so if you're looking for something with advanced techniques, this isn't it. This book clearly and concisely took me through some of the basic questions I had regarding utilizing and setting up documents. I found the software to be somewhat un-user-friendly. Over all I found it quite helpful.
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