Adobe® Acrobat® 8 PDF Bible

Preface

Adobe Acrobat 8 PDF Bible is written for a cross-platform audience. Users of Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 2, Windows XP Professional or Home Edition, Tablet PC Edition, and Apple Macintosh computers running OS X v10.2.8, 10.3, and later will find references to these operating systems.

About This Book

Most of the chapters in this book include screenshots from Acrobat running under Windows. The user interface is closely matched between Windows and the Macintosh; therefore, Macintosh users will find the same options in dialog boxes and menu commands as found in the screenshots taken on a Windows machine. Where significant differences do occur, you'll find additional screenshots taken on a Macintosh to distinguish the differences.

How to read this book

I have to admit this publication is not a page turner that leaves you grasping for more time to finish up a chapter before retiring at night. After all, it's a computer book and inasmuch as my editors at Wiley always strive to get me to add a little drama to the text, few people will pick up this Bible and read it cover to cover. This book should be thought of more as a reference where you can jump to an area and read over the contents to help simplify your work sessions in Acrobat Standard (now available only on Windows in version 8.0) or Acrobat Professional version 8.0.

Because Acrobat is such a behemoth program and can do so many things for almost any kind of work activity, most people won't use every feature the program ...