By: Ted Padova Publisher: Wiley Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Wiley Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 1085 Publication Date: February 12, 2007
Product Description: "The Adobe Acrobat 8 PDF Bible is the comprehensive guide to Acrobat for novices and power users alike. With a concise, easy-to-read format, you will be creating interactive XML forms, enabling streamlined document review processes, and publishing high-impact electronic documents in no time." —Rick Brown, director of product management, Adobe Acrobat
The book you need to succeed with Adobe Acrobat!
Why do readers turn to the Adobe Acrobat Bible again and again? Because whether you're already experienced with Adobe Acrobat or you're learning to use this powerful tool for the first time, you'll find exactly what you need to know in these well-organized pages. Packed with helpful tips and step-by-step instructions, this latest edition will guide you through both basic and advanced features, enabling you to take full advantage of everything Acrobat 8 has to offer.
Create, collect, and distribute forms with LiveCycle® Designer
Work seamlessly with Microsoft® Office applications
Convert AutoCAD® and Visio® files to PDF
Discover new ways to edit PDFs and remove sensitive data
Explore enhanced Shared Reviews tools with easy-to-use Wizard
Collect form data by exporting it directly to Microsoft Excel®
Combine files and create PDF Packages using new Acrobat 8 tools
What's on the CD-ROM?
You'll find valuable, author-developed sample files including PDF documents, Adobe Designer forms, and Acrobat PDF forms with JavaScripts—all arranged in folders according to chapters in the book, so you use them along with the book's tutorials. The CD also includes:
Extremely hard to read I'm really let down by the book in 2 regards: 1. The print is so small it ridiculous. 2. The contrast of the print to the page color is terrible.
There is decent content in the book but the print is on less than newspaper quality paper. It is extremely hard to read.
Although the content is OK, I'd look elsewhere for an easier reading experience (thus better understanding of the subject).
Heavy reading Excellent book to use as a reference. I keep it close by and can always find answers when I use it. Could use more informaion on creating forms, and integrating forms with application data.
Very Helpful Lots of good tips and very helpful navigating the new interface which is a pain to learn. Glad I bought this.
PDF Bible is great reference I bought it as a reference, not a tutorial, but it does have the latter and the CD with it has samples to use with tutorials if you choose. The CD also provides a searchable PDF of the entire book. Great if you have a laptop as the book is a bulky 2 inches thick.
Each chapter has frequent CROSS-REF statements that refer you to other chapters which will elaborate in more detail on something mentioned in the current chapter. This is a plus! Reduces search time!
If you are looking for an easy cover-to-cover read, this ain't it. If you want a reference where you can look up what you need only when you need it, this 1000+ page book is for you. Many books on this software cost as much or more but have perhaps 1/4 the material with lots of white space and cartoon silliness.
The 22 page TOC and 36 chapters gives you some idea of the depth of coverage. Some books do not have that many pages in the index.
Difficult to read and incomplete Loaded with typographical, grammatical and even spelling errors, this book seems rushed to press. It's even missing crucial details about dynamic forms ("expand to fit").
Too much of this book is hard to follow and seems unnecessarily long. I expect more from a "Bible" book.
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