Adobe Acrobat 8 Classroom in a Book | 
 enlarge | Author: Adobe Creative Team
Publisher: Adobe Press
Category: Book
List Price: $50.00
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 54982
Media: Paperback
Pages: 528
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0321470850
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.72
EAN: 9780321470850
Publication Date: January 12, 2007
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Product Description
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.
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 Excellent Book October 11, 2007
Steven R. Dekarske (Cleveland, WI USA)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have used this book to create electronic forms. It is an excellent step by step book for anything you want to to in Professional 8. Professional 8 is a very robust product that is easy to work w ith even by a novice to Acrobat.
Nice complement to the software March 23, 2007
A reviewer (Gainesville, Florida United States)
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
If you need an introduction to the features, intuitive or obscure, in the Acrobat Professional 8 software, this is the book for you. I looked at other titles in the market but none comes close to this book in coverage and ease of use. Pity it doesn't come for free with the software.
Book Review July 9, 2008
Steven Schwartzenberg (Connecticut)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I recently purchased the Adobe Classroom in a Book for Acrobat 8. While it is a big book, 520 pages, it is thorough and complete. There is so much to learn but it is presented in a simple easy to understand manner!
Amazon's price was great and so was the prompt delivery!
 Thorough reference, but not a tutorial April 17, 2007
Allen Stenger (Alamogordo, NM USA)
54 out of 56 found this review helpful
Despite the title, this is a reference and not a tutorial. It shows how to perform various tasks with Acrobat, such as creating PDFs from common office applications, editing and combining existing PDFs, creating forms, and using some of the special features such as shared document reviews, digital signatures, and making documents viewable and accessible on a variety of devices.
The focus in on particular features of Acrobat. There is little discussion of workflows or the steps one might take end-to-end to create a PDF with desired properties. For example, everyone has seen PDFs with tables of contents and indexes that hyperlink to the specified page, but there's no mention of that in this book and you won't learn how to do it here. There are no troubleshooting tips (for example, what do I do if my images come out fuzzy?).
The treatment leaves Adobe Acrobat Distiller a mystery. From time to time there are instructions to go over to Distiller and change some Acrobat setting, but there's no overall explanation of why it works this way. A sidebar "What is Distiller?" would have been nice.
The book is packaged with a CD-ROM containing all the exercise materials and some tutorial videos. The videos, from lynda and from Total Training, cover most of the features new to Acrobat 8 and are very well done. The book itself is competent but uninspiring.
Excellent April 7, 2008
Da Vinchi (San diego, CA USA)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
You need to spend some time going back and forth between your computer and this study book but it explains pretty much all the nuts and the bolts of this program.
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