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How to Do Everything with Adobe® Acrobat® 6.0 (Windows) Reviews

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Summary: Bare Bones Approach
Comment: I had neither the time nor the inclination to learn Acrobat 6.0. Unfortunately, I did have the need to learn it. I took a new approach for me. I ordered this book, gave it to my nephew to learn (I paid for his time) and told him to learn the program forward and backward. He was then to give me an "executive summary" type of instruction and I would rely on him to do anything beyond the basics. The approach worked, after a fashion but I could have chosen a better text. He learned the basics of the program well. The advanced capabilities were not thoroughly addressed.

In his words: found the "How to Do Everything with Adobe Acrobat 6.0" instructional book to be helpful to an extent. It did a good job instilling the basics but once you reach a certain point you begin to lose understanding for lack of actual interaction with the program. Many instructional guides come with an exercise disc that allows you to participate in different exercises and projects that better your understanding of the program. This particular guide does not, and as a result it is harder to understand certain topics. It has good examples and good illustrations but the lack of hands on experience is crucial.

In short, I am satisfied, barely.

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Summary: The operative word here is "Lightweight"
Comment: I'm still searching for a really amazing, knock my socks off Adobe Acrobat book, that will take me beyond what I could find in the Acrobat help, or figure out myself. I can capably make a PDF from Word or any other application, I don't care about embedding multimedia, and I still see a sore need to find a book that covers forms really well. This book fails both the breadth test and the depth test; it might as well be one of the "dummies" books. Thanks for nothing!

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Summary: Should Be Better
Comment: I purchased this book for an overview of Acrobat 6.0. While there is some good info, too much is not explained fully. There are constant cross references "see chapter 8", no page reference and the bulk of the book is for the pro version. The author spends a lot of time using fancy nomenclature (not technical terms) instead of offering better tips. I would love to see a Special Edition Using Acrobat from Que Publishing. That series is excellent for learning software. I will look for a better book.

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Summary: Well, it tells ALMOST everything...
Comment: Not bad. Certainly contains a lot of information. It didn't help me figure out how to prevent photo quality loss when sending a file to a print shop (well, it told me why it happened but it didn't tell me exactly how to fix it). However... there are lots of neat tricks and tips for other Acrobat uses. It explained all the options in Distiller and that was helpful. I think we'll get use out of the book at our office... but I'm a little disappointed. It was probably worth the money though.

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Summary: Will help its reader master the many different components
Comment: From simple memos to interactive forms, How To Do Everything With Adobe Acrobat 6.0 shows why Acrobat is the tool for any electronic publishing task - including projects that require multimedia. How To Do Everything With Adobe Acrobat 6.0 will help its reader master the many different components and purposes for creating and publishing documents for electronic distribution.

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