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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)

Principles of building accessible documents

As we discussed in previous chapters, a PDF document is the final product of work done in other applications where both text and images are placed and organized on pages. Here are some guidelines for authors to consider:

Principle

Reason

Provide equivalent alternative text

Alternative text (alt text) provides a description of non-text content. It is especially helpful for people who are blind and rely on a screen reader to have the content of images read to them.

Charts and diagrams should include expanded text

The expanded description should convey the meaning of data presented in a chart or a diagram. For a very long description, a link can be provided to a different area of the publication with expanded text.

Create a logical...