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Books & CDs about Acrobat
- Garrick Chow: Learning
Acrobat 5 CD-Rom. lynda.com
(Lynda Weinman is a top-notch trainer and
designer)
- Doug Sahlin: How
to do everything with Adobe Acrobat 5.0. McGraw-Hill
(good introductory book for the average
user, got deservedly excellent ratings for readability and
content)
- Greg Harvey: Acrobat
5 for Dummies. Wiley
(you knew there had to be one of these)
- Ted & Jennifer Alspach: Pdf
With Acrobat 5 (Visual Quickstart Guide). Peachpit
Press
(another introductory book; many screenshots,
not much meat)
- Christopher Smith: SAM's
Teach Yourself Acrobat 5 in 24 Hours. SAM's Publishing.
(Simple-minded book for beginners. Not very good.)
- Pattie Belle Hastings et al.: Acrobat
5 Master Class. Adobe Press **New**
(A truly beautiful book, and the only one to focus on interactive
PDF, eBooks, and multimedia uses for PDF)
- Donna Baker: Acrobat
5: The Professional User's Guide. Apress
(useful and helpful, but print-oriented)
- Anita Dennis, Tricia Sahlmann: RealWorld
PDF with Adobe Acrobat 5. Peachpit Press **New**
(thorough, very print-oriented)
- Adobe Acrobat ClassRoom
In A Book. Adobe Press
(one of the standard books to learn Acrobat,
but very Adobe-application-centric)
- John Deubert: Creating
Adobe Acrobat Forms. Adobe Press **New**
(everything about PDF forms)
- Ted Padova: Creating
Adobe Acrobat Forms. Wiley **New**
(another authority on PDF forms; includes
eBook version; plus his great 101 tips eBooks for Acrobat
and PDF forms on CD-ROM)
Acrobat PDF Bible. IDG books
(very in-depth coverage of PDF, dry, not
for newbies)
- Thomas Merz: PostScript
and Acrobat/PDF Bible. Springer **Not
released yet**
(probably even more technical than
Padova's)
Web
Publishing With Acrobat/Pdf. Springer
(3.0 only, but a lot of detail on undocumented
features)
- Gordon Kent: Internet Publishing with Acrobat. Adobe Press
(3.0 only, but available as online book
and good for starters)
  
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last updated: 2004-02-04 Instructional
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