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Book Reviews of Adobe Acrobat 8 Classroom in a BookBook Review: Book Review Summary: 5 Stars
I recently purchased the Adobe Classroom in a Book for Acrobat 8. While it is a big book, 520 pages, it is thorough and complete. There is so much to learn but it is presented in a simple easy to understand manner!
Amazon's price was great and so was the prompt delivery!
Book Review: Excellent Book Summary: 5 Stars
I have used this book to create electronic forms. It is an excellent step by step book for anything you want to to in Professional 8. Professional 8 is a very robust product that is easy to work w ith even by a novice to Acrobat.
Book Review: Great guide Summary: 5 Stars
Once again, this is the best guide to Acrobat 8 that is readily available. Unlike many of Adobe's other classroom in a book offerings, this one really excels at teaching the user how to use Acrobat 8.
Book Review: Thorough reference, but not a tutorial Summary: 4 Stars
Despite the title, this is a reference and not a tutorial. It shows how to perform various tasks with Acrobat, such as creating PDFs from common office applications, editing and combining existing PDFs, creating forms, and using some of the special features such as shared document reviews, digital signatures, and making documents viewable and accessible on a variety of devices.
The focus in on particular features of Acrobat. There is little discussion of workflows or the steps one might take end-to-end to create a PDF with desired properties. For example, everyone has seen PDFs with tables of contents and indexes that hyperlink to the specified page, but there's no mention of that in this book and you won't learn how to do it here. There are no troubleshooting tips (for example, what do I do if my images come out fuzzy?).
The treatment leaves Adobe Acrobat Distiller a mystery. From time to time there are instructions to go over to Distiller and change some Acrobat setting, but there's no overall explanation of why it works this way. A sidebar "What is Distiller?" would have been nice.
The book is packaged with a CD-ROM containing all the exercise materials and some tutorial videos. The videos, from lynda and from Total Training, cover most of the features new to Acrobat 8 and are very well done. The book itself is competent but uninspiring.
Book Review: Acrobat 8 Classroom In Book Great review Summary: 4 Stars
Being that I haven't upgraded my own instruction on Acrobat since version 6, I found the Adobe Acrobat 8 Classroom In A Book a great review of a great application. Yet another great textbook from the long line of support from Adobe.
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