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Ted Padova is the former Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner of The Image Source Digital Imaging and Photo Finishing Centers of Ventura and Thousand Oaks, California. He has been involved in digital imaging since founding a service bureau in 1990.
Ted has taught university and higher education classes over sixteen years in graphic design applications and digital prepress at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of California at Los Angeles. He has been and continues as a conference speaker nationally and internationally at PDF conferences.
Ted has written over a dozen computer books on Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator. Recent books published by John Wiley and Sons include Adobe Acrobat PDF Bible (versions 4,5, and 6), Creating Adobe Acrobat PDF Forms, Teach Yourself Visually Acrobat 5, and Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Complete Course. He also co-authored Adobe Illustrator Master Class— Illustrator Illuminated for Peachpit Press. He is also host of the Total Training video series on Acrobat 6.0.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Part I: Welcome to Adobe Acrobat.

Chapter 1: Getting to Know Adobe Acrobat.

Chapter 2: Using Acrobat Viewers.

Chapter 3: Getting Familiar with the New and Improved Adobe Reader.

Chapter 4: Viewing and Navigation in Adobe Acrobat Professional.

Chapter 5: Searching PDF Files.

Part II: Converting Documents to PDF.

Chapter 6: Converting to PDF from Adobe Acrobat Professional.

Chapter 7: Exporting to PDF from Authoring Applications.

Chapter 8: Using Acrobat Distiller.

Part III: Editing PDFs.

Chapter 9: Saving and Versioning Files.

Chapter 10: Editing Text.

Chapter 11: Editing Images and Objects.

Chapter 12: Editing Pages.

Chapter 13: Scanning and OCR Conversion.

Chapter 14: Repurposing PDF Documents.

Part IV: PDF Interactivity.

Chapter 15: Review and Markup.

Chapter 16: Working with Review Sessions.

Chapter 17: Links and Actions.

Chapter 18: Multimedia and PDFs.

Chapter 19: Working with Layers.

Chapter 20: Accessibility and Tagged PDF Files.

Part V: PDF Publishing.

Chapter 21: Authentication and Security.

Chapter 22: PDFs and the Web.

Chapter 23: PDFs and Presentations.

Chapter 24: PDFs and eBooks.

Chapter 25: Printing and Prepress.

Part VI: Acrobat PDF Forms.

Chapter 26: Designing PDF Forms (Windows Only).

Chapter 27: Understanding the Form Tools.

Chapter 28: Working with Form Data.

Chapter 29: Understanding JavaScript.

Index.