PDF Resources 1

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)