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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. He retired from his company in 2005 and now spends his time writing and speaking on Acrobat and PDF.
For more than 17 years, Ted has taught university and higher education classes 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 to be, a conference speaker nationally and internationally at PDF conferences.
Ted has written more than 25 computer books and is one of the world’s leading authors on Adobe Acrobat. He has written books on Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Creative Suite (versions 1 and 2), Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Reader, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Adobe Illustrator. Recent books published by John Wiley and Sons include Adobe Acrobat PDF Bible (versions 4, 5, 6, and 7), Color Correction for Digital Photographers Only, Color Correction for Digital Photographers For Dummies, Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 For Dummies — Just the Steps, 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 and wrote Adobe Reader Revealed for Peachpit/Adobe Press.

About the Author.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Part I: Welcome to Adobe Acrobat.

Chapter 1: Getting to Know Adobe Acrobat.

Chapter 2: Using Acrobat Viewers.

Chapter 3: Getting Started in Adobe Acrobat.

Chapter 4: Getting Familiar with Adobe Reader.

Chapter 5: Viewing and Navigating PDF Files.

Chapter 6: Searching PDF Files.

Part II: Converting Documents to PDF.

Chapter 7: Converting Files to PDF.

Chapter 8: Using PDFMaker with Microsoft Programs.

Chapter 9: Exporting to PDF from Authoring Applications.

Chapter 10: Using Acrobat Distiller.

Part III: Editing PDFs.

Chapter 11: Saving and Versioning Files.

Chapter 12: Combining, Packaging, and Attaching PDFs.

Chapter 13: Editing Text.

Chapter 14: Redacting PDFs.

Chapter 15: Editing Images and Objects.

Chapter 16: Editing Pages.

Chapter 17: Scanning and OCR Conversion.

Chapter 18: Repurposing and Batch Processing.

Chapter 19: Enabling Features for Adobe Reader.

Part IV: PDF Interactivity.

Chapter 20: Review and Markup.

Chapter 21: Working with Review Sessions.

Chapter 22: Links and Actions.

Chapter 23: Multimedia and PDFs.

Chapter 24: Working with Layers.

Chapter 25: Accessibility and Tagged PDF Files

Part V: PDF Publishing.

Chapter 26: Authentication and Security.

Chapter 27: PDFs and the Web

Chapter 28: PDFs and Presentations

Chapter 29: Using Acrobat Connect

Chapter 30: PDFs and eBooks.

Chapter 31: Printing to Desktop Color Printers

Chapter 32: Commercial Printing and Prepress.

Part VI: Acrobat PDF and LiveCycle Designer Forms.

Chapter 33: Designing PDF Forms (Windows Only).

Chapter 34: Understanding Acrobat Form Tools.

Chapter 35: Working with Form Data.

Chapter 36: Understanding JavaScript.

Appendix: Using the CD-ROM.

Index.

End-User License Agreement.

"Filled with step by step sections and easy to follow diagrams and screenshots make this a good studio reference." (Twohundredby200, October 2007)