Covers the essentials of using Adobe Acrobat. This book includes coverage on planning a document for PDF distribution, maintaining integrity of your fonts and graphics, creating PDFs with Office or the Distiller, updating work with Acrobat, building virtual forms, preparing PDFs for the Web, and more.

What the book covers: the essentials of using Adobe Acrobat. It includes coverage on planning a document for PDF distribution, maintaining the integrity of your fonts and graphics, creating PDFs with Office or the Distiller, updating work with Acrobat, building virtual forms, preparing PDFs for the Web, adding interactivity, indexing a PDF, collaborating on a PDF, securing a PDF, and preparing PDFs for press. Series features: includes the friendly, easy, and often humorous reference that has made "Dummies" the most popular technology book series ever.

Introduction.
Part I: Presenting Acrobat and PDF Files.
Chapter 1: The Ins and Outs of PDF Files.
Chapter 2: Accessing PDF Files.
Chapter 3: Getting Acquainted with Acrobat 5.
Part II: The Wealth of Ways for Creating PDF Files.
Chapter 4: Distilling PDF Files.
Chapter 5: Converting Microsoft Office Documents.
Chapter 6: Capturing Paper Documents.
Chapter 7: Capturing Web Pages.
Chapter 8: Printing PDF Files.
Part III: Reviewing, Editing, and Securing PDFs.
Chapter 9: Annotating PDF Files for Review.
Chapter 10: Editing PDF Files.
Chapter 11: Securing PDF Files.
Chapter 12: Extracting Text and Graphics from PDF Files.
Chapter 13: Cataloging and Distributing PDF Files.
Part IV: PDFs as Electronic Documents.
Chapter 14: Creating Interactive Forms.
Chapter 15: Building and Publishing eBooks.
Chapter 16: Making PDFs into Multimedia Presentations.
Part V: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 17: The Top Ten Features of Acrobat 5.
Chapter 18: The Ten Commandments for Converting Office Documents into PDF Files.
Chapter 19: The Top Ten Third Party Acrobat Plug Ins.
Chapter 20: The Top Ten Online Resources.
Index.