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Books & CDs about Acrobat

• Garrick Chow: Learning Acrobat 6 CD-Rom. lynda.com
  (Lynda Weinman is a top-notch trainer and designer)
• Garrick Chow: Acrobat 6 HOT. lynda.com
  (Hands-On Training, with tutorial movies on CDROM)
• Doug Sahlin: How to do everything with Adobe Acrobat 6.0. McGraw-Hill
  (good introductory book for the average user, got deservedly excellent ratings for readability and content)
• Doug Sahlin: Acrobat 6 VTC Training CD. Virtual Training Company
• Ted Padova: Acrobat 6 Complete Course. Wiley
  (nice tutorials, publishing-oriented, with CDROM)
• Greg Harvey: Acrobat 6 for Dummies. Wiley
  (you knew there had to be one of these)
• Jennifer Alspach: Acrobat 6 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.)
• Taz Tally: Acrobat 6 and PDF Solutions. Sybex
  (great book for power users)
• Pattie Belle Hastings et al.: Acrobat 5 Master Class. Adobe Press
  (A truly beautiful book, and the only modern one to focus on interactive PDF, eBooks, and multimedia uses for PDF)
• Carl Young: Acrobat 6: Getting Professional Results from your PDFs. McGraw-Hill
  (just what it says)
• Donna Baker: Acrobat 6: Tips & Tricks (The 100 Best) Adobe Press
  (covers Acrobat 6 Standard only)
• Donna Baker, Tom Carson: Acrobat 6: The Professional User's Guide. Apress
  (useful and helpful, but print-oriented)
• Christopher Smith, Mohamad Tawil, Anita Dennis: RealWorld Acrobat 6. Peachpit Press
  (thorough, very print-oriented)
• Adobe Acrobat 6 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
  (everything about PDF forms)
• John Deubert: Extending Acrobat Forms with JavaScript. Adobe Press
  (if you really want to get that deep into forms)
• Ted Padova: Creating Adobe Acrobat Forms. Wiley
  (another authority on PDF forms; includes eBook version; plus his great 101 tips eBooks for Acrobat and PDF forms on CD-ROM)
• Ted Padova, Sarah Rosenbaum: Acrobat 6 PDF Bible. IDG books
  (very in-depth coverage of PDF, dry, not for newbies)
• Thomas Merz: PostScript and Acrobat/PDF Bible. Springer
  (probably even more technical than Padova's)
• Thomas Merz: 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)
• John Deep, Peter Holfelder: Designing Interactive Documents with Adobe Acrobat Pro. Wiley 1996
  (interesting for historical reasons —Deep authored Acrobat—, and because it's one of only 2 or 3 books focusing on interactive documents rather than publishing and workflow)