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Title: Adobe Acrobat 5 Master Class by Pattie Belle Hastings, Bjorn Akselsen, Sandee Cohen ISBN: 0-201-74883-5 Publisher: Adobe Press Pub. Date: 15 July, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best out of Four
Comment: I bought four books on Acrobat 5, and this one is by far the best. It is written conceptually. It appeals to the senses as well as providing an education. Taking vast amounts of information and refining it so that it is presented simply yet thoroughly. I enjoy reading it.
I also bought Classroom in a book by the Adobe Creative Team and it is work. I am sure over time I will derive a lot from it, but Master Class is fun. You would never know that your working because you are too busy seeing all the cool stuff you can do with Adobe 5 and how to do it.
I also bought Real World PDF with Adobe Acrobat 5 by Anita Dennis, Industrial Strength Production Techniques, and that is a book for advanced students. It explains everything clearly, and is a big benefit for explaining the details on how to fit Adobe PDF into your print production overflow.
Adobe PDF is so much more than simply converting your files. It appears simple on the outside, but when you read Adobe 5 Master Class, you will be enthralled with how much more it does. Highly recommended for beginners and advanced students.
Rating: 5
Summary: Adobe Acrobat for the Interactive Masses
Comment: Adobe Acrobat as an interactive tool has found three champions in Patti Belle Hastings, Bjorn Akselsen and Sandee Cohen. Their book, Adobe Acrobat 5 Master Class, Interactivity and Multimedia for PDF, does a great job explaining in pictures and in words how things work in Acrobat 5 and more importantly, how to get some very cool things done in Acrobat 5. I'm also fond of the book as a book: I like the handsome design and printing of Master Class and feel a bit guilty that my copy has become dog eared with use.
One of the quiet strengths of the Master Class book are the authors' insights-that appear like reality seasoning throughout the volume-into creating interactive projects. I admire the will to say things like, "Put the customer's needs ahead of your prowess with the software." This has the ring of truth for me; this kind of advice helped me make something powerful out of a large PDF project I have recently completed. This kind of insight together with the excellent teaching of Acrobat techniques in Master Class made possible the successful completion of a year-long project to create an interactive PDF biography of a friend's grandmother.
With Acrobat 6 ready to explode on the scene, I can only hope that Peachpit Press will invite the authors of Master Class back to serve as our guides to the about-to-be-redefined world of PDF interactivity and mulitmedia.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent but comes in 2nd to Acrobat H O T.
Comment: It was tough to decide if this is a four-star or a five-star book. Four and a half stars would be my preference.
At any rate, if you can afford only one Adobe Acrobat 5 book, you might be better off buying Acrobat 5 Hands On Training (HOT). I recommend, though, saving up enough money to get every book on Acrobat you can, for it is the wave of the future and a must for anybody wanting to put information-interactively on the web - my term is info-tivity - and the best thing this Hypercard pioneered the process at Apple's MacIntosh.
There probably is not single more valuable software tool for making money than Acrobat and I will be upgrading to version 6 as soon as I return stateside. That's the good news - the bad is that I will likely have to upgrade my library to keep in tune with the changes in this great software.
Back now to the review - if you intend to post any video, animation or audio on the internet you simply are going to have to purchase this book.
Further, if you are going to self-publish any sort of periodical on the web, you will definitely want to download HOW NOT TO START A MAGAZINE. by B. Ann Bell. Then, go read HOW TO START A MAGAZINE, STARTING & RUNNING A SUCCESSFUL NEWSLETTER OR MAGAZINE, PUBLISH YOUR OWN MAGAZINE, GUIDEBOOK, OR WEEKLY NEWSPAPER, and PAPERLESS PUBLISHING and do a google search for the soon-to-be LJs BREAKING FREE$.
Yes, that list is long but each of these is a valuable source of information for anyone trying to make money by publishing on the internet - Bill Anderson (LJ).
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Title: How to do Everything with Adobe(R) Acrobat(R) 5.0 by Doug Sahlin ISBN: 0072195118 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 26 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Real World PDF with Adobe Acrobat 5 by Anita Dennis ISBN: 0201758946 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 13 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Creating Adobe Acrobat Forms with CDROM by Ted Padova, Ted Padova ISBN: 0764536907 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: The 100 Best Adobe Acrobat 6 Tips and Tricks by Donna Baker ISBN: 0321223926 Publisher: Adobe Press Pub. Date: 17 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Design for Communication : Conceptual Graphic Design Basics by Elizabeth Resnick ISBN: 0471418293 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 23 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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