Adobe acrobat 5 PDF

Contents

Part I: Welcome to Adobe Acrobat

Chapter 1: Getting to Know Adobe Acrobat
What Is Adobe Acrobat?
History of Adobe Acrobat
Enter Acrobat 5.0
What's PDF?
Document repurposing
PDF and PostScript
Adobe Acrobat Components
Plug-ins
Acrobat viewers
Acrobat Search
Open as Adobe PDF
Acrobat Distiller
Acrobat Messenger
Acrobat Catalog
Acrobat Capture
Acrobat Scan
Acrobat Forms
Collaboration
Digital Signatures
Web Capture
Web Buy
Nomenclature
What's New in Acrobat 5.0?
User interface
PDF version 1.4
New palettes
New tools
New menu commands
Microsoft Office integration
Printing
Understanding PDF Workflows
Automating digital workflows
PDF as a standard
PDF workflow solutions

Chapter 2: Viewing and Searching PDF Files
The Acrobat Viewer Tools
The viewer work area
Tools
Navigating and Viewing PDF Documents
Navigation tools
Zooming
Page views
Full-screen views
More page views
The Navigation Pane
Navigating PDF Documents
HyperText links
World Wide Web links
Using the Find Tool
Find tool dialog box
Find Again
Using Acrobat Search
All about index files
Using the Acrobat Search dialog box
Understanding search results
Viewing search results
Search preferences
Operators
Boolean expressions
Word Assistant

Chapter 3: Using Acrobat Viewers
Understanding the Reader Environment
Document Properties
Modifying Preferences
Opening, Saving, and Printing PDF Files
Making Text and Graphics Selections
Text Select tool
Column Select tool
Copying and pasting text
Copying and pasting graphics
Using context-sensitive menus
Using the Online Help Commands
Accessing the Adobe Web Link
Registering Acrobat Reader
Getting help from Adobe on the Web

Part II: Creating PDF Documents

Chapter 4: Converting Documents to PDF
How PDFs Are Created
Opening as Adobe PDF
Converting image files
Converting HTML files
Converting text files
Multiple file conversions
Drag and drop
Printing to Acrobat Distiller (Windows)
Create Adobe PDF (Macintosh)
Selecting the printer
Page setup
Printing the file
Drag and drop printing
Creating PDFs from Web sites
Web site structure
Captured pages structure
Converting Web pages to PDF
Appending pages
Refreshing Web pages
Locate Web addresses
Preferences for Web Capture
Capturing a Web site
Create Adobe PDF Online
Accepted file formats
Why subscribe?
How it works

Chapter 5: Using Acrobat Distiller
Why Use Acrobat Distiller
Understanding PostScript
Creating PostScript files
Creating PostScript Files from Web Pages
Why convert Web pages to PDF
Printing Web pages to PostScript
Acrobat Distiller Preferences
Startup Alerts
Output Options
Log Files
Macintosh only
Job Options
Preset Job Options
General Job Options
Compression
Font embedding
Color Job Options
Advanced Job Options
Font Locations
Watched Folders
Licensing restrictions
Creating watched folders
Security
Working with Non-Roman Text
Accessing Acrobat Distiller
Concatenating PostScript Files
Combining files by name
Combining files in folders
Combining PostScript files on networks

Chapter 6: PDF Exports and Imports
Application Programs Exporting to PDF
Acrobat and Adobe Photoshop
Exporting to PDF from Photoshop
Acquiring PDF files in Photoshop
Using Comments with Photoshop
Acrobat and Microsoft Office Applications
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Publisher
Acrobat and Illustration Programs
Macromedia FreeHand
CorelDraw
Adobe Illustrator
Opening PDFs in Illustration Programs
Limitations with editing PDF files in illustration programs
Acrobat and Layout Programs
Adobe InDesign
Adobe PageMaker
QuarkXPress
Adobe FrameMaker
PDFMark
Annotating PostScript Code

Chapter 7: The Acrobat Environment
Using Acrobat Preferences
General preferences
Table/Formatted Text preferences (Windows)
Web Capture preferences
Internet Settings preferences
DocBox preferences (Windows)
PDF Document Control
General
Open
Fonts
Trapping Key
Index
Document Metadata
Base URL
Saving Files from Acrobat
Saving as Adobe PDF
Saving as EPS
Saving as JPEG
Save as PNG
Save as PostScript
Saving as RTF
Saving as TIFF
Extracting Images
Saving PDFs with Security

Part III: Enhancing PDF Documents

Chapter 8: Comments, Text, and Graphics
Acrobat Comment Properties
Assigning color
Using Comment Tools
Creating Note comments
Creating Text comments
Creating Sound comments
Creating Stamp comments
Creating file attachments
Working with Graphic Markup tools
Working with Text Markup tools
Common characteristics of comment icons and notes
Using the Comments Palette
Viewing comments
Sorting comments
Navigating comments
Finding comment data
Importing and exporting comments
Deleting comments
Comments Menu Commands
Summarizing comments
Using the Filter Manager
Spell checking comments
Editing Text
Using the TouchUp Text tool
External editors
Object Linking and Embedding
TouchUp order
Working with table data (Windows)
Working with Graphics Editors
TouchUp Object tool commands
Selecting objects
External object editing

Chapter 9: Articles, Bookmarks, and Thumbnails
Working with Articles
Article viewing and navigation
Defining articles
Working with Bookmarks
Adding and deleting bookmarks
Ordering bookmarks
Working with Thumbnails
Creating and deleting thumbnails
Organizing pages with thumbnails
Editing Pages
Cropping pages
Rotating pages
Understanding Destinations
Creating destinations
Sorting destinations

Chapter 10: Hypertext References
About Hypertext Links
Link actions
Link properties
Removing links
Link environment
Creating Links
Link properties
Linking to files
Text links
Form fields as links
Creating Page Actions
Editing page actions
Using transitions with page actions
Nesting page actions
Setting the open view
Named Destinations
Destination tools
Creating links to destinations
Importing Sound and Video
Importing sound files
Importing movies

Part IV: Acrobat Publishing

Chapter 11: Acrobat and the Web
PDF and the Web
Viewing PDFs in a browser
Sending PDFs across the Internet
Sharing Comments on Servers
Comments on Web servers
Comments on local area networks
Sharing comments
Working offline
Working with Web Links
Working with Captured Web Sites
Tagged bookmark menu options
PDF Structure with tagged bookmarks

Chapter 12: PDF and eBooks
Heading Toward Digital Content
The predictions
eMatter
eCommerce
eBooks
Preliminary assumptions
Designing eBooks
Web Buy
Configuring Web Buy
Downloading eBooks
eBook Readers
Microsoft Reader (Windows)
Acrobat eBook Reader
PDF Goes Palm (Windows)
Installing the Acrobat Reader for Palm OS (Windows)
Adding PDFs to your Palm Device (Windows)
Viewing PDFs on your Palm Device (Windows)

Chapter 13: Working with Forms
What Are Acrobat Forms?
Understanding Form Fields
Form contents
Navigating text fields
Form field navigation keystrokes
Creating Forms
Field properties
Using the Fields Palette
Naming Fields
Importing and Exporting Form Data
Exporting data
Importing data
A Little Bit of Java
JavaScript calculations
Working with Page Templates
JavaScript and page navigation
JavaScript and destinations
Importing images
Help menus

Chapter 14: Authentication and Archiving
Authenticating PDFs
Understanding digital signatures
Creating a profile
Signing a document
Verifying signatures
Deleting and clearing signatures
Digital Signatures palette
Digital Signatures properties
Comparing Documents
Compare two documents
Comparing signed documents
CD-ROM Publishing
Planning the content design for commercial distribution
Preparing files
Distribution of the Acrobat Reader Software
Adobe License Agreement
Reader and Search
Registering as a Reader distributor

Part V: Catologing and Scanning

Chapter 15: Creating Search Indexes with Acrobat Catalog
Understanding Acrobat Catalog
Structure of Catalog files
Hierarchy of indexed files
Relocating indexes
Preparing PDFs for Indexing
Document Summary
File structure
Optimizing performance
Creating search help
Setting Catalog Preferences
General Preferences
Creating an Index
Index Title
Index Description
Include These Directories
Exclude These Subdirectories
Options
Removing directories
Building the index
Purging data
Using Index Files

Chapter 16: Scanning in Acrobat
Acrobat and Scanners
Accessing a scanner
Scanning Basics
Understanding Acrobat scan types
Preparing a document
Memory Configurations
Macintosh memory requirements
Windows memory requirements
Using Acrobat Scan
Scanning images
Workflow Solutions
Automatic document feeders
Batch sequencing
Using Acrobat Scan with Digital Cameras

Chapter 17: Converting Scans to Text
Using Acrobat Capture (Windows)
Acrobat Capture requirements
Paper Capture preferences (Acrobat 4.0 users)
Custom dictionaries (Acrobat 4.0 users)
Capturing a Page
Capture Suspects
Using Paper Capture Online

Part VI: Advanced Acrobat Applications

Chapter 18: Printing and Digital Prepress
Printing PDF Files
Printing tips
Advanced options
Printing to Desktop Devices
Printing to non-PostScript devices
Printing to PostScript devices
Printing to High-end Devices
Printing Color Separations
Soft proofing color separations
Soft proofing color
Workarounds for correcting separation problems
Large Format Inkjet Printing

Chapter 19: Programming
What Is Acrobat JavaScript?
Backward Compatibility
What about checking for JavaScript?
Checking for Acrobat versus Acrobat Reader
What Can I Do with Acrobat JavaScript?
What Can't Acrobat JavaScript Do?
Where Can I Attach JavaScript Code to PDF?
Using an external code editor (Windows only)
Is my code visible to others?
Realtime Keystroke Filtering
Working with Dates
Putting a Timestamp on a document
Working with Open Documents
Checking to see if a document is open
Collating pages from other PDF documents
Roundtrip CGI
Handling data at the server
Database Access via ADBC
Basic architecture
A word about DSNs
Quick code example
Obtaining data via an SQL query
Working with row objects

Chapter 20: Using Plug-Ins
Understanding Plug-ins
Installing plug-ins
Plug-in conflicts
Plug-in documentation
Disabling plug-ins
Using Third-Party Plug-ins and Applications

Appendix: Using the CD-ROM

Index