Acrobat 6 and PDF solutions

"If Taz writes a book, I can tell you this—I WANT IT!" Scott Kelby, President, National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) With Acrobat 6, Adobe has delivered a vastly improved product that streamlines and fortifies document exchange using PDF. Rich with sophisticated new features and an enhanced interface, Acrobat 6 gives business, creative, engineering, and now prepress professionals greater control over high-quality document exchange and review. Acrobat 6 and PDF Solutions offers expert instruction on putting this complex tool to good use. With his characteristic enthusiasm, acclaimed instructor and author Taz Tally introduces you to key features and techniques, then leads you through real-world tutorials that reinforce the material. In addition to a complete tour of Acrobat 6, you get an in-depth guide to creating PDF documents and working with Distiller and other PDF creation workflows. Productivity tips and automations throughout help you work faster and more accurately. Inside, you'll discover the ins and outs of Acrobat Standard and Professional versions, including how to: * Implement an effective PDF workflow * Create catalogs, e-books, multimedia presentations, and web pages from your documents * Build PDF order forms with specially formatted data-entry fields * Set up collaborative review of documents * Control access to and use of your PDFs * Edit text and graphics in PDF files * Use PDFs and Acrobat with Photoshop * Control import and export of PDF contents * Run preflight and on-screen proofing on PDFs * And more! Synopsis: "If Taz writes a book, I can tell you this—I WANT IT!" Scott Kelby, President, National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) With Acrobat 6, Adobe has delivered a vastly improved product that streamlines and fortifies document exchange using PDF. Rich with sophisticated new features and an enhanced interface, Acrobat 6 gives business, creative, engineering, and now prepress professionals greater control over high-quality document exchange and review. Acrobat 6 and PDF Solutions offers expert instruction on putting this complex tool to good use. With his characteristic enthusiasm, acclaimed instructor and author Taz Tally introduces you to key features and techniques, then leads you through real-world tutorials that reinforce the material. In addition to a complete tour of Acrobat 6, you get an in-depth guide to creating PDF documents and working with Distiller and other PDF creation workflows. Productivity tips and automations throughout help you work faster and more accurately. Inside, you'll discover the ins and outs of Acrobat Standard and Professional versions, including how to: Implement an effective PDF workflow Create catalogs, e-books, multimedia presentations, and web pages from your documents Build PDF order forms with specially formatted data-entry fields Set up collaborative review of documents Control access to and use of your PDFs Edit text and graphics in PDF files Use PDFs and Acrobat with Photoshop Control import and export of PDF contents Run preflight and on-screen proofing on PDFs And more! Biography: Prepress "guru" Dr. Taz Tally is a Ph.D. and author of Avoiding The Output Blues , Avoiding the Scanning Blues , and his Electronic Publishing textbook. He has also created numerous training videos and CDs, and authored textbooks used throughout the industry. He is in demand nationally as a presenter on topics related to pre-press and graphics, and writes a regular prepess column for Photoshop User. More than 30,000 graphics professionals have attended his seminars. Computers,Programming,General,Desktop Applications,Desktop Publishing,Hardware,Personal Computers,Computer Graphics,Image Processing,Document Management,Adobe Acrobat,Software Development,PDF (Computer File Format),File Conversion (Computer Science),Portable Document Software,Electronic Publishing,Text Processing (Computer Science) In "Acrobat 6 and PDF Solutions", Taz Tally reveals a new practical way to take advantage of Acrobat 6 and the PDF format, from implementing an effective PDF workflow to getting files ready for print to creating catalogues, interactive forms, ebooks, multimedia presentations and web pages