Real World Adobe Acrobat 6: Pro and Standard
by Smith, Christopher; Tawil, Mohamad; Dennis, AnitaFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-01-01
Publisher(s): Peachpit Press
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Summary
-The new version of Acrobat has 3 products and this is the only book from Peachpit on Acrobat 6 Professional.-Updated to cover the new features of Acrobat 6 Pro: a JavaScript development environment, enhanced printing and prepress capabilities, watched folder support etc.-Aimed at creative professionals, the emphasis is on technical grounding - rather than just simple how-to's.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xxiii |
| p. 1 | |
| About Adobe Acrobat and PDF | p. 3 |
| Why Use PDFs? | p. 3 |
| Paperless Office | p. 5 |
| Document Security and Integrity | p. 5 |
| How PDF Works | p. 7 |
| Combining Multiple File Types | p. 8 |
| What Makes PDF So Popular? | p. 8 |
| Viewing PDF Files--Adobe Reader and Beyond | p. 9 |
| Expanding PDF Capabilities | p. 9 |
| Types of PDF Files | p. 10 |
| From the Basics to the Advanced | p. 11 |
| Adobe Acrobat Workspace | p. 13 |
| Toolbars and Buttons | p. 14 |
| Getting Around | p. 19 |
| Changing Page Magnification | p. 20 |
| Find Yourself | p. 24 |
| Adobe Acrobat Products | p. 25 |
| Acrobat Elements | p. 25 |
| Acrobat Standard | p. 25 |
| Acrobat Professional | p. 26 |
| Adobe Reader | p. 26 |
| Acrobat Messenger | p. 26 |
| Acrobat Capture | p. 27 |
| Acrobat Distiller Server | p. 27 |
| Adobe Document Server with Reader Extensions | p. 27 |
| Adobe Workflow Server | p. 27 |
| Adobe Form Designer | p. 28 |
| Adobe Form Server | p. 28 |
| Non-Adobe PDF Software | p. 28 |
| Conferences and Online Resources | p. 30 |
| p. 31 | |
| Creating PDF Files from Microsoft Office | p. 33 |
| PDF Maker for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint | p. 33 |
| PDF Maker Buttons | p. 34 |
| PDF Maker Settings | p. 35 |
| Additional Conversion Settings | p. 39 |
| Application Settings | p. 40 |
| The Security Tab | p. 43 |
| Bookmarks Tab (Word Only) | p. 45 |
| Excel-Specific Options | p. 47 |
| PowerPoint-Specific Options | p. 47 |
| Outlook-Specific Options | p. 48 |
| The Outsider's Approach Works | p. 49 |
| Creating PDF Files from WordPerfect | p. 51 |
| Publish to PDF Window | p. 51 |
| WordPerfect Is Just One Method | p. 57 |
| How to Create PDF Files for Prepress | p. 59 |
| PDF Prepress Creation Methods | p. 59 |
| Preparing Files for Creating a PDF | p. 65 |
| Other Prepress Issues | p. 69 |
| Creating a PDF File | p. 72 |
| Exporting PDF Files from InDesign | p. 72 |
| Printing PDF Files from InDesign | p. 80 |
| Exporting PDF Files from PageMaker | p. 82 |
| Printing PDF Files from PageMaker | p. 84 |
| Saving as PDF Files from FrameMaker | p. 85 |
| Printing PDF Files from FrameMaker | p. 86 |
| Exporting PDF Files from QuarkXPress | p. 88 |
| Print PDF Files from QuarkXPress | p. 90 |
| Create Your PDF Files with Confidence | p. 94 |
| Creating Graphical PDFs | p. 95 |
| Illustrator | p. 96 |
| Photoshop | p. 99 |
| FreeHand | p. 104 |
| CorelDraw | p. 106 |
| It's One in the Same | p. 114 |
| Creating PDF Files from Paper Documents | p. 115 |
| Scanning into Acrobat | p. 115 |
| Paper Capture Online | p. 123 |
| High Volume Paper to PDF | p. 124 |
| Platform Differences: Windows Versus Mac OS | p. 124 |
| Search, Edit, Share, and Store | p. 124 |
| Creating PDF Files from HTML and the Internet | p. 125 |
| Why Convert Web Content to PDF? | p. 125 |
| Design Considerations | p. 127 |
| Internet Explorer | p. 128 |
| Conversions Using Acrobat | p. 131 |
| PDF Doesn't Replace HTML | p. 136 |
| Adobe PDF Printer and Acrobat Distiller | p. 137 |
| Using PDF Printer | p. 137 |
| Distiller Workflow Overview | p. 139 |
| Settings for Adobe PDF Printer and Acrobat Distiller | p. 139 |
| Custom Distiller Settings | p. 143 |
| Security Settings | p. 165 |
| How Do You Prefer to Distill? | p. 167 |
| Get in Line | p. 168 |
| Automated PDF Creation with Watched Folders | p. 174 |
| To Distill or Not To Distill | p. 176 |
| p. 177 | |
| Bookmarks | p. 179 |
| Nested Bookmarks | p. 180 |
| Creating Bookmarks | p. 181 |
| Editing Bookmarks: Changing the Destination and Name | p. 182 |
| Bookmark Properties | p. 182 |
| Bookmark Actions | p. 183 |
| Organizing and Arranging Bookmarks | p. 186 |
| Setting the Bookmarks Palette to Open | p. 186 |
| Importing Bookmarks into Acrobat | p. 187 |
| Tagged Bookmarks | p. 187 |
| Bookmark It | p. 188 |
| Links | p. 189 |
| Using Links | p. 189 |
| Creating Links | p. 190 |
| Link Properties | p. 191 |
| Link Actions | p. 192 |
| Editing Links | p. 195 |
| Creating Web Links Automatically | p. 196 |
| Destinations | p. 196 |
| Articles | p. 197 |
| The Final Link | p. 198 |
| Buttons | p. 199 |
| Creating Buttons | p. 199 |
| Button Actions | p. 204 |
| Naming Buttons | p. 207 |
| Editing and Extracting Text and Graphics | p. 209 |
| Selecting Text | p. 209 |
| Selecting a Column of Text | p. 210 |
| Extracting Text | p. 211 |
| Selecting and Extracting Tables | p. 212 |
| Extracting Graphics | p. 213 |
| Editing Graphics | p. 214 |
| Editing Text | p. 216 |
| Adding New Text | p. 218 |
| Extracting PDF Pages Using Save As | p. 218 |
| Leaving PDF Land | p. 228 |
| Optimizing PDF Files: Reducing File Size | p. 229 |
| Reducing File Size: The Easy Route | p. 229 |
| Auditing Space Usage | p. 230 |
| Using PDF Optimizer | p. 230 |
| Fonts | p. 234 |
| Additional Options | p. 237 |
| Size Them for Distribution | p. 237 |
| Managing PDF Documents: Merging, Arranging, and Cropping Pages | p. 239 |
| Organizing Documents | p. 239 |
| Working with Document Thumbnails | p. 240 |
| Combining PDF Documents | p. 240 |
| Extracting Pages | p. 242 |
| Replacing Pages | p. 243 |
| Deleting Pages | p. 243 |
| Arranging Page Order | p. 243 |
| Numbering Pages | p. 244 |
| Cropping Pages | p. 245 |
| Rotating Pages | p. 246 |
| Printing Pages | p. 246 |
| Use the Pages Palette | p. 246 |
| p. 247 | |
| Comments and Annotations | p. 249 |
| Note Tool | p. 250 |
| Highlighting Tools | p. 251 |
| Text Edits | p. 252 |
| Stamps | p. 252 |
| Advanced Commenting Tools | p. 255 |
| Commit to Comments | p. 262 |
| Advanced Review and Commenting Features | p. 263 |
| Online Comments | p. 263 |
| Email-Based Review | p. 267 |
| Review Tracker | p. 268 |
| Exporting Comments to Word | p. 269 |
| Commenting Preferences | p. 270 |
| Comment All You Want | p. 272 |
| Protecting PDFs with Security | p. 273 |
| Standard Security | p. 273 |
| From the Basic to the Advanced | p. 278 |
| Advanced Security and Digital Signatures | p. 279 |
| About Digital Identities | p. 279 |
| Creating a Digital ID | p. 280 |
| Sharing a Digital ID | p. 283 |
| Using a Digital ID to Certify a Document | p. 285 |
| Using a Digital ID to Sign Documents | p. 285 |
| Customizing Signature Appearance | p. 286 |
| Managing Signed Documents | p. 287 |
| Using Digital IDs to Secure Documents | p. 289 |
| More on Digital IDs | p. 290 |
| p. 291 | |
| Creating PDF Forms | p. 293 |
| Why PDF Forms? | p. 293 |
| PDF and HTML Forms: What Is the Difference? | p. 294 |
| Creating Form Fields | p. 295 |
| Creating Buttons | p. 295 |
| Button and Form Actions | p. 297 |
| Check Boxes | p. 299 |
| Radio Buttons | p. 299 |
| Creating Menus with Combo Boxes | p. 300 |
| List Boxes | p. 302 |
| Text Fields | p. 303 |
| Signature Fields | p. 304 |
| Managing Fields | p. 305 |
| Setting Tab Order | p. 307 |
| Formula for Success | p. 308 |
| Advanced Form Techniques and Submitting Form Data | p. 309 |
| Validating PDF Data | p. 309 |
| Dynamically Formatting Fields | p. 313 |
| Template Pages | p. 316 |
| Calculating Form Data | p. 316 |
| Alert Messages | p. 317 |
| Options for Submitting PDF Forms | p. 318 |
| Smart Forms | p. 319 |
| Form(ula) for Success | p. 320 |
| p. 321 | |
| Presentations and Multimedia | p. 323 |
| Delivering Presentations | p. 324 |
| Converting PowerPoint Presentations to PDF | p. 324 |
| Creating Presentations | p. 324 |
| Preferences for PDF Presentations | p. 326 |
| Setting Documents to Open in Full Screen Mode | p. 327 |
| Movies and Sounds | p. 328 |
| Multimedia Properties for Acrobat 6 Compatible Media | p. 329 |
| Acrobat 5 Compatible Media Properties | p. 335 |
| Controlling Media | p. 336 |
| Multimedia with JavaScript | p. 337 |
| Set Your Presentations Free | p. 341 |
| Acrobat and the Internet | p. 343 |
| When to Use PDF and When to Use HTML | p. 343 |
| Options for Integrating PDF with HTML | p. 345 |
| Just Post It | p. 348 |
| p. 349 | |
| Indexing and Searching PDF Files | p. 351 |
| Search Basics | p. 351 |
| Advanced Search Options | p. 353 |
| Telling Acrobat Where to Search | p. 354 |
| Additional Search Criteria | p. 355 |
| Searching PDFs on the Internet | p. 356 |
| Working with Search Results | p. 356 |
| Searching Multiple Files | p. 357 |
| Creating and Maintaining an Index | p. 358 |
| Attaching PDF Documents to an Index | p. 361 |
| Preparing PDF Files for Searching | p. 361 |
| I Once Was Lost | p. 362 |
| Section 508 and Accessibility for the Visually Impaired | p. 363 |
| Why Create Accessible PDF Files? | p. 363 |
| Federal Agencies and Adobe PDF Files | p. 364 |
| Adaptable PDF Files | p. 365 |
| Checking for Accessibility of Existing Documents | p. 367 |
| Tagging PDF Files | p. 369 |
| Changing Reflow and Reading with Special Characters | p. 372 |
| Creating Tagged PDF Documents | p. 374 |
| Additional Resources | p. 376 |
| Wrapping Up | p. 376 |
| Batch Processing and Automation | p. 377 |
| Using a Batch Process | p. 377 |
| Default Batch Sequences | p. 378 |
| Editing a Batch Process | p. 379 |
| Creating a Batch Process | p. 381 |
| Sharing a Batch Process | p. 382 |
| A Good Batch | p. 382 |
| Application Preferences | p. 383 |
| Accessibility | p. 383 |
| Reading | p. 384 |
| Batch Processing | p. 384 |
| Catalog | p. 385 |
| Color Management | p. 385 |
| Commenting | p. 386 |
| Convert from PDF Preferences | p. 387 |
| Convert to PDF | p. 388 |
| Digital Signatures | p. 388 |
| Forms | p. 388 |
| Full Screen | p. 389 |
| General | p. 389 |
| Identity | p. 391 |
| Internet | p. 391 |
| JavaScript | p. 391 |
| Multimedia | p. 392 |
| Page Display | p. 392 |
| Reviewing Comments | p. 393 |
| Searching PDFs | p. 393 |
| Smoothing Options | p. 394 |
| Spelling Options | p. 394 |
| Start Up | p. 394 |
| Touch Up | p. 395 |
| Trust Manager | p. 395 |
| Units and Guides | p. 395 |
| Updates | p. 395 |
| Web Capture | p. 395 |
| What's Your Preference? | p. 396 |
| Extending Acrobat with Plug-Ins | p. 397 |
| Acrobat Plug-ins | p. 398 |
| Printing a PDF File | p. 407 |
| Printing in Acrobat 6.0 | p. 407 |
| PDF: Future of Prepress | p. 411 |
| One, Two, Buckle Your Shoe | p. 411 |
| Three, Four, Open the Door | p. 415 |
| Five, Six | p. 416 |
| PDF's Role in Prepress | p. 418 |
| Out of the (Black) Box | p. 419 |
| It's a Beautiful Thing | p. 429 |
| Workflow Systems and Alphabet Soup | p. 431 |
| What Is Extreme? | p. 431 |
| Extreme Systems | p. 433 |
| Alphabet Soup | p. 441 |
| Non-Extreme PDF RIPs | p. 449 |
| Wrapping Up Rip | p. 451 |
| High Resolution Printing and Proofing with PDF | p. 453 |
| Homegrown PDF Workflows | p. 454 |
| Preflighting | p. 456 |
| Proofing and Previewing | p. 469 |
| Trapping | p. 473 |
| OPI | p. 480 |
| Imposition | p. 483 |
| Separations | p. 488 |
| Other Color Separating Software Options | p. 496 |
| RIP | p. 498 |
| Reap the Benefits | p. 498 |
| Creating PDF Files from Engineering Applications | p. 499 |
| Microsoft Project 2002 (Windows) | p. 500 |
| Microsoft Visio (Windows) | p. 504 |
| Engineer It | p. 508 |
| Acrobat's Engineering Features | p. 509 |
| Special Navigational Tools | p. 510 |
| Measuring Tools | p. 511 |
| Mark-Up Tools | p. 513 |
| Layers | p. 514 |
| Engineering Acrobatics | p. 515 |
| Index | p. 517 |
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