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Adobe Acrobat Ninja

By : Urszula Witherell
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Adobe Acrobat Ninja

By: Urszula Witherell

Overview of this book

Adobe Acrobat can help you solve a wide variety of problems that crop up when you work with PDF documents on a daily basis. The most common file type for business and communication, this compact portable document format is widely used to collect as well as present information, as well as being equipped with many lesser-known features that can keep your content secure while making it easy to share. From archive features that will keep your documents available for years to come to features related to accessibility, organizing, annotating, editing, and whatever else you use PDFs for, Acrobat has the answer if you know where to look. Designed for professionals who likely already use Adobe Acrobat Pro, this guide introduces many ideas, features, and online services, sorted and organized for you to easily find the topics relevant to your work and requirements. You can jump to any chapter without sifting through prior pages to explore the tools and functions explained through step-by-step instructions and examples. The information in some chapters may build on existing knowledge, but you are not expected to have an advanced level of prior experience. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a solid understanding of the many capabilities of PDFs and how Acrobat makes it possible to work in a way that you will never miss good old ink and paper.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Understanding Different Adobe Acrobat Versions and Services

Office tools have changed enormously since the first release of Adobe Acrobat in 1993. From what were essentially static images of publication pages, PDF documents are now complex and interactive, filling most office communication needs and near-enough ready to replace paper. To address changing demands, Adobe has gradually introduced many features and services that support working with PDF as a truly portable format. Users are now able to work with the same .pdf file on a desktop computer, a tablet, or a smartphone.

PDF documents are meant to be very portable. As the reasons for using the format expanded, so did the ways of interacting with the files. We do so much more than read .pdf publications. We edit text and images, add accessibility, fill out and submit forms, prepare files for commercial printing, and much more. Some functions are only available when a file is saved on a desktop or a laptop computer hard drive...