Although the World Wide Web is enjoying enormous growth rates, many Web publishers have discovered that HTML is not up to the requirements of modern corporate communication. For them, Adobe Acrobat offers a wealth of design possibilities. The close integration of Acrobat in the World Wide Web unites the structural advantages of HTML with the comprehensive layout possibilities of Portable Document Format (PDF). On the basis of practical examples and numerous tricks, this book describes how to produce PDF documents efficiently. Numerous tips on integrating Acrobat into CGI, JavaScript, VBScript, Active Server Pages, search engines, and so on make the book a mine of information for all designers and administrators of Web sites.

This book will enable you to start and maintain a cutting-edge Web publishing venture using Adobe's Acrobat software and the PDF electronic publishing format. You'll learn to produce electronic documents that retain their high-quality design, whether they're distributed through your Web site or other electronic media. Web Publishing with Adobe Acrobat and PDF teaches you all the major Web Acrobat publishing techniques, including how to: * Prepare information for multimedia publishing via PDF and the Web. * Create PDF documents with both Acrobat and traditional desktop publishing tools (Quark, Pagemaker, Word). * Configure a Web server to manage interwoven PDF and HTML documents and indexed sets of PDF files. * Publish PDF documents on CD-ROM, and via Lotus Notes and other networks.

A guide to Adobe Acrobat for internet publishers

Originally entitled the "PostScript and Acrobat Bible" in German, this handbook achieves the seemingly impossible: it covers this tricky and technical field in an entertaining manner without getting bogged down in PostScript programming. It explains how several components work together and how to deal with real-world application and operating-system problems. The author genuinely wants to assist in overcoming cross-platform barriers using MS-DOS, Windows, Macintosh or UNIX and, accordingly, neither the book nor the tools are limited to one particular platform or operating system. The 9 chapters and 3 appendixes run the entire gamut, from the very basics right up to Ghostscript and the whole is creatively designed, making use of comical illustrations. In short, essential reading for all technically minded users of PostScript and Acrobat/PDF - from PC owners wanting to get the most out of their laser printers to graphic artists with Macs to system administrators and online publishers.

Annotation Create your own PDFs with Acrobat 5. Step-by-step instructions to learning Acrobat, the popular document exchange program. Fully up20010913d to cover all the new features of version 5. Cross-platform content for Mac and Windows users. If you need to send, receive, and annotate documents that retain fidelity to their formatting, you need PDF with Acrobat 5: Visual QuickStart Guide. The Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) has become the standard, cross-platform method for a variety of uses, including archiving, inter-company publishing, sending and receiving formatted documents online, and creating Web documents. PDF with Acrobat 5: Visual QuickStart Guide takes an easy, visual approach to teaching Acrobat, using pictures to guide readers through the software. The latest in the popular Visual QuickStart Guide series, this task-based reference takes readers through the basics of creating and editing PDF files, then goes on to more advanced topics such as creating multimedia PDFs and saving Web pages in the PDF format. Anyone who wants to create and receive format-stable documents needs PDF with Acrobat 5: Visual QuickStart Guide. Jen Alspach has written many computer books, including Teach Yourself Photoshop 5.0/5.5, Photoshop and Illustrator Synergy Studio Secrets, and Illustrator 7 Complete. This is her first book for Peachpit Press.

Adobe Acrobat is the essential tool for universal document exchange. Acrobat can convert almost any document (including entire Web sites) into a PDF file for distribution, viewing and printing on any computer platform, with its original formatting intact. Fully revised for version 5.0, Adobe Acrobat 5.0 Classroom in a Book contains new lessons and updated projects that cover the basics of learning Acrobat. Some exciting new features of version 5.0 include document review tools (sticky notes, text highlights) that allow multiple reviewers to add electronic comments simultaneously to an online PDF file, conversion tools to save a PDF file to Rich Text Format and repurpose the text in a new document, and Adobe PDF forms for easy online forms. The CD-ROM includes images and lesson files customized for the projects and lessons throughout the book. This official training series from Adobe will appeal to users and creators of PDF files, including publishing companies, production and pre-press designers and clients, and anyone that distributes downloadable written content on the Web.

The classic Acrobat and PDF reference, updated to cover the latest release Consistently the most authoritative and comprehensive resource on the Acrobat PDF format, this standard reference returns with in-depth coverage of the newest version of Acrobat. Written by bestselling author Ted Padova, this book is packed with real-world insights and techniques gained from Padova's daily use of Acrobat under deadline constraints. You'll discover everything there is to know about using Acrobat X for print prepress, the Internet, CD-ROMs, and other forms of media. Popular author Ted Padova shares everything you need to know about the latest release of Acrobat—Acrobat X Explores the updated functions of the new Acrobat and using it for print prepress, the Internet, CD-ROMs, and more As the ultimate resource for all things Acrobat and PDF-related, Adobe Acrobat X PDF Bible is an update of a classic.