Chapter 1. Getting Your Bearings

Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional is a rare piece of genuinely multipurpose software that is many things to many people, making it difficult to define its use in a couple of words. Adobe describes Acrobat as a program designed to “Provide the essential applications and services that help knowledge workers communicate and collaborate with confidence.”

That’s a loaded statement if I have ever read one! As you read through the projects in this book, you’ll see how the different workflows, processes, and features of Acrobat 8 Professional achieve different aspects of the program’s functional statement. My goal isn’t to serve as a spokesperson for Adobe but as a guide to help you understand how different aspects of Acrobat ...

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