Adobe Acrobat 5.0 Classroom in a Book

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Features

• The official training series from Adobe Systems tested in Adobe's own classrooms and labs.

  • Provides students with expert and comprehensive training from Adobe. Ex.___

• Self-paced modular lessons cover a complete tour of the software.

  • Lessons build on one another so as students work through the exercises and projects they gain a complete understanding of the program. Also, lessons also can be chosen individually to learn a specific aspect of the program. Ex.___

• Lesson Objectives and Review Section—Chapter lessons open with clearly stated objectives and conclude with a review section of questions and answers.

  • Students can plan and assess their progress as they proceed from lesson to lesson. Ex.___

• CD-ROM component.

  • CD-ROM contains all the project files for the lessons. Ex.___

Description

Adobe Acrobat is the essential tool for universal document exchange. Acrobat can convert almost any document into a PDF file, with its original appearance preserved, for distribution, viewing and printing on virtually any operating system. Adobe Acrobat 5.0 Classroom in a Book is the best way to learn all the key features and abilities of Acrobat. Fully revised for version 5.0, Adobe Acrobat 5.0 Classroom in a Book contains new lessons and updated projects that cover creating and editing PDF files, how to make PDF files available as Web pages, the many new features of version 5.0, and numerous tips and techniques. The companion CD-ROM includes images and lesson files customized for the projects and lessons throughout the book.

Sample Content

Table of Contents

(NOTE: Each chapter concludes with Review Questions and Review Answers.)

Getting Started.

About Classroom in a Book. Prerequisites. Installing Adobe Acrobat. Starting Adobe Acrobat. Installing the Classroom in a Book Fonts. Copying the Classroom in a Book Files. Additional Resources. Adobe Certification.

About Adobe PDF. About Adobe Acrobat. Adobe PDF on the World Wide Web. Looking at Some Examples. Designing Documents for Online Viewing.

Opening the Work File. Using the Acrobat Tools. Customizing the Toolbars. Using Acrobat Palettes. Using Context Menus. About the On-screen Display. Following Links. Printing PDF files. Using the Acrobat 5.0 Online Help. Using Adobe Online.

Using Fonts with This Lesson. About PDF Documents. About Acrobat Distiller. Using an Application's Print Command. Creating Adobe PDF from a Text File. Changing the Distiller Job Options. Adding Security to PDF Files. Converting Paper Documents to Adobe PDF. Converting Microsoft Office Application Files (Windows).

Controlling Adobe PDF Output Quality. About Compression and Resampling. Using Default Compression Settings. Using Custom Compression Settings. Managing Color in Distiller. Using Watched Folders. Exploring on Your Own.

About This lesson. Viewing the Work File. Setting an Opening View. Looking at Bookmarks and Links. Adding Bookmarks. Looking at Articles. Replacing a Page. Looking at Online Document Design. Exploring on Your Own.

Opening and Examining the Work File. Editing Pages. Editing Text and Images. Using Links and Bookmarks to Play Actions. Copying Text from a PDF File. Converting a PDF File to an Image Format File. Exploring on Your Own.

Opening the Work File. Working with Comments. Digitally Signing Documents. Exploring on Your Own.

Working with Forms online. Adding Form Fields. Calculating with Form Fields. Creating a Reset Form Field. Submitting Forms over the Web. Filling out Form Fields. Using the Fields Palette. Exploring on Your Own.

Converting Web Pages to Adobe PDF. Configuring Your Internet or Proxy Settings. Setting Options for Converting Web Pages. Creating an Adobe PDF File from a Web Page. Updating Converted Web Pages. Building an Adobe PDF File of Favorite Web Pages. Exploring on Your Own (Windows).

About This Lesson. Looking at Design Elements in Online Documents. Designing an Online Document. Creating eBooks.

Opening the Work File. Adding Multiple Actions to a Button. Creating Special Effects with Buttons. About Movie and Sound Files.

Color Management: An Overview. Managing Color in Acrobat. Previewing Overprinting. Managing Color at Print Time.

Distributing PDF Documents. Preparing a Welcome Document. Setting an Opening View for the Document Collection. Organizing the Staging Area. Optimizing for Page-at-a-time Downloading. Indexing Your Document Collection. Adding Acrobat Reader Installers. Testing Your Document Collection. Double-checking the Checklist.

Building an Index. Searching an Index. Using Document Info Fields in a Search. Searching with Boolean Expressions. Searching on the Web. Choosing Catalog Options. Exploring on Your Own.

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