Books - Adobe Acrobat 8 Classroom in a book

No Acrobat user can afford to miss a beat in his or her production and business task workflow, which makes mastering new versions of key tools like Acrobat a priority.

Through a series of self-paced lessons (each of which builds on the last and includes hands-on projects that the reader can create using the files on the CD-ROM), this guide acquaints users with all of Acrobat 8's regular and industrial-strength features for creating, reviewing, editing, commenting on, restructuring, and preflighting PDF files.

New features in Acrobat 8: securing private information with new redaction tools; creating dynamic and interactive forms; saving PDF files as Word documents; automatically archiving your Outlook emails to PDF; using newly enhanced reviewing and sharing options, and more. Professional tips and techniques are scattered throughout.

Table of Contents

• 1. About creating Adobe PDF files
• 2. Using the Create PDF command
• 3. Converting and combining different types of files
• 4. Using the Print command to create Adobe PDF files
• 5. About the Adobe PDF Settings (presets)
• 6. Comparing the default Adobe PDF Settings
• 7. Reducing file size
• 8. About compression and resampling
• 9. Exploring on your own: Dragging and dropping files
• 10. Exploring on your own: Creating Adobe PDF from the context menu (Windows)
• 11. Exploring on your own: Creating Adobe PDF from clipboard images
• 12. Review