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Summary: Book Review
Comment: I recently purchased the Adobe Classroom in a Book for Acrobat 8. While it is a big book, 520 pages, it is thorough and complete. There is so much to learn but it is presented in a simple easy to understand manner!
Amazon's price was great and so was the prompt delivery!

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Summary: Excellent
Comment: You need to spend some time going back and forth between your computer and this study book but it explains pretty much all the nuts and the bolts of this program.

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Summary: Acrobat 8 Classroom In Book Great review
Comment: Being that I haven't upgraded my own instruction on Acrobat since version 6, I found the Adobe Acrobat 8 Classroom In A Book a great review of a great application. Yet another great textbook from the long line of support from Adobe.

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Summary: Excellent Book
Comment: I have used this book to create electronic forms. It is an excellent step by step book for anything you want to to in Professional 8. Professional 8 is a very robust product that is easy to work w ith even by a novice to Acrobat.

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Summary: Thorough reference, but not a tutorial
Comment: Despite the title, this is a reference and not a tutorial. It shows how to perform various tasks with Acrobat, such as creating PDFs from common office applications, editing and combining existing PDFs, creating forms, and using some of the special features such as shared document reviews, digital signatures, and making documents viewable and accessible on a variety of devices.

The focus in on particular features of Acrobat. There is little discussion of workflows or the steps one might take end-to-end to create a PDF with desired properties. For example, everyone has seen PDFs with tables of contents and indexes that hyperlink to the specified page, but there's no mention of that in this book and you won't learn how to do it here. There are no troubleshooting tips (for example, what do I do if my images come out fuzzy?).

The treatment leaves Adobe Acrobat Distiller a mystery. From time to time there are instructions to go over to Distiller and change some Acrobat setting, but there's no overall explanation of why it works this way. A sidebar "What is Distiller?" would have been nice.

The book is packaged with a CD-ROM containing all the exercise materials and some tutorial videos. The videos, from lynda and from Total Training, cover most of the features new to Acrobat 8 and are very well done. The book itself is competent but uninspiring.

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