Adobe Acrobat X for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

Introduction

You have to give Adobe credit. There aren’t many companies that have managed to change the world once, let alone twice. In 1985, Adobe introduced PostScript, which became the rock on which the entire electronic publishing industry was built; they forever changed the world of professional printing. In 1994, Adobe launched the first version of Acrobat, whose file format, PDF, is now the basis for modern electronic distribution of all manner of documents.

PDF files are used by everyone who creates or receives documents in the modern world. CEOs, secretaries, artists, railway-station managers, hemp-wearing individuals who create crystal-based healing jewelry; everybody with a computer sends and receives documents as PDF, and uses some ...