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Adobe Acrobat can help you solve a wide variety of problems that crop up when you work with PDF documents on a daily basis. The most common file type for business and communication, this compact portable document format is widely used to collect as well as present information, as well as being equipped with many lesser-known features that can keep your content secure while making it easy to share. From archive features that will keep your documents available for years to come to features related to accessibility, organizing, annotating, editing, and whatever else you use PDFs for, Acrobat has the answer if you know where to look. Designed for professionals who likely already use Adobe Acrobat Pro, this guide introduces many ideas, features, and online services, sorted and organized for you to easily find the topics relevant to your work and requirements. You can jump to any chapter without sifting through prior pages to explore the tools and functions explained through step-by-step instructions and examples. The information in some chapters may build on existing knowledge, but you are not expected to have an advanced level of prior experience. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a solid understanding of the many capabilities of PDFs and how Acrobat makes it possible to work in a way that you will never miss good old ink and paper.

Who is this book for?

This book is for anyone working with PDFs on a daily basis, including skilled professionals such as analysts, administrators, architects, engineers, scientists, lawyers, and anyone who can be described as communications workers, including but not limited to artworkers, researchers, technical writers, and accessibility workers who routinely work with PDF and some version of Acrobat.

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Use Adobe Acrobat Pro efficiently through shortcuts and preferences

Expand your knowledge of the functions that you already use

Understand the connection between PDFs, Acrobat, and other applications

Find out about unique settings in Adobe InDesign to create high-quality fully featured PDFs

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Tony McKinley Apr 30, 2023

Adobe Acrobat Ninja provides a great overview of Acrobat starting with an introduction to the various versions of the product on the market and finishing with a comprehensive listing of Tools, Keyboard Shortcuts and Accessibility Tags. While you can theoretically find this information by digging through Help, the book provides a quick and efficient way of not only getting directly to what you need, but may point you to other options and methods you didn't know were available. The book itself is professionally designed and produced, with very instructive flowcharts to illustrate alternative methods, such as the chapter on why you would choose to create PDF documents via PDFMaker or the print method through Distiller. The book provides step-by-step instructions on simple operations like scanning and editing, as well as specialized functions like redaction and bates numbering. For print production, Adobe Acrobat Ninja offers instruction on integration with InDesign. Overall, Adobe Acrobat Ninja provides in a book the learning experience of sitting in the classroom with the expert trainer, the author Urszula Witherell.

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Bjørn Smalbro Apr 22, 2023

Adobe Acrobat Ninja is a handbook for all things pdf. 13 chapters and 328 pages will take you through a systematic and well organized tour into the land of the Acrobats.PDF has since its inception grown into a sprawling and ubiquitous file format which helps users store, print and send files to each other across platforms. Devised as a kind of closed and final file format based on postscript, pdf has also acquired a creative dimension. You can change and edit most things in pdf files! It is all of this and much more which Urszula Witherell has put into writing in her new book, Adob Acrobat Ninja.The book starts with a good introduction to the different versions of Adobe Acrobat.The second chapter gives us a look into the workings of OCR and editing scanned images.Chapter 3 is about Microsoft Office and PDFMaker. This is a very good chapter which dives into working with structural depth in PDF. PDF files may be used for many very different purposes, and understanding how one, for instance, adds bookmarks and security, is vital. This chapter also comes with a nice short decription of the difference between using PDFmaker and Print to PDF using Distiller.Chapter 4 is about modifying and editing pdf files and there is - at least for me - lots of really good info about working with links. This chapter also introduces, what is more elaborated in chapter 5 - accessibility. Creating pdf documents which are accesssible for people who are dependent on some kind of reader devices is - at least in a european context - a big thing. Compliancy with Section 508 / Directive 2019/882 is super important in all state driven communication portals as well as in all document sent to citizens. So the good explanations about how to work with accessibility given in this book are really great.Chapter 6 is about Document Review. The author makes a good effort to describe the process in overview and details. I have little experience using document review, and have always found it a confusing experience riddled with uncertainty about where the documents actually resided during review. These explanations help. They are not specific to authoring tools however.One the many really excellent diagrams from the bookIf your job involves creating forms, chapter 7 is for you. Forms in Acrobat is a two step process. Graphic design and layout is made in dedicated application like InDesign or FrameMaker. Actual interactive form field creation and mechanics is made in Acrobat. This is a good chapter and I have been informed that there actually is an entire organization dedicated to creation and management of forms, called BFMA - Business Forms Management Associatioin! That said, forms creation is an area where many graphic designers find themselves stumped, because there actually is a bit of hard tech learning to do, in order to get them right. Urzula Witherell takes you through an example with detailed instructions. Very good!Digital signatures are covered in chapter 8. Digital signatures can come in multiple levels and understanding the legal framework around them is way beyond me. The description about how to work with them in Acrobat is good, though and I think the author has taken a well balanced approach to the subject.Chapter 9. Multimedi presentation is covered in chapter 9. I know that a lot of graphic designers like to create their portfolios in Acrobat/Illustrator. I believe this probably has more to do with culture than functionality, but the features for creating "PowerPoint like" shows are there, and they are covered very fine.Once there were many good layout programs. Today Adobes InDesign has mostly taken over the entire segment. Well deserved, because it has an insane amount of features. Chapter 10 dives into the collaboration with Acrobat. While you may think - why look at InDesign, when the book is about Acrobat, there are good reasons, because then underlying formatting code made in InDesign, before exporting to Acrobat has big consequences.Professional publishing in the sense that we are working with color separation, print, print validation etc, is covered in chapter 11. While it IS a good chapter, it is also a short chapter. And probably with good reason. Soft proofing and validating your work before print can be a really exhaustive process, with lots and lots of options for things going awry. So if you come looking for troubleshooting, this chapter is not for you. It does, howevers show you the workings of softproofing.Chapter 12 details how one can work with redacting the privacy of a pdf file. Sometimes you need to publish a document, but parts of the document may need to be hidden. Sensitive content my, for instance be person names, social ids, specific values like stock value estimates etc. Hiding that kind of information so that it can not be extracted using specialized tools can be difficult, as has been seen in numerous court room scandals over the years. Chapter 12 is a thorough introduction how to this process effectively with Acrobat.The final chapter, Chapter 13, is bit of it all, so to speak. Shortcut tables, lists of laws, lists of tags etc.Adobe Acrobat Ninja is an excellent book, and I really like, that for techbook, it also comes with a lot of good humour. It is a good reference book and is absolutely worth the money!

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Brian P. Hoke Jun 27, 2023

Ursula has written a comprehensive, clear, and useful book for anyone looking to understand and use Adobe Acrobat better. Meaningful overviews explain why each topic is important and why we should care, leading into detailed coverage of how to get the most out of the wide range of Acrobat features. Written in an engaging but straightforward style, this book will appeal to both new and experienced users. I highly recommend it!

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Nicholas Spencer Baker Apr 13, 2023

I recently was gifted "Adobe Acrobat Ninja: A productivity guide with tips and proven techniques for business professionals using Adobe Acrobat" and I am blown away by the amount of valuable information this book contains!Urszula has done an excellent job of breaking down the complex features of Adobe Acrobat into simple, easy-to-understand steps. The book is filled with helpful tips and proven techniques that any business professional can use to increase their productivity when using Acrobat.One of the things I appreciate most about this book is that it covers a wide range of features in Acrobat, including creating and editing PDFs, optimizing files, and using digital signatures. It's like having a personal Acrobat coach at your fingertips.Overall, I highly recommend "Adobe Acrobat Ninja" to anyone who uses Acrobat for work or personal use. It's a must-have guide that will save you time and frustration in the long run. Five stars!

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John Andrews - NetCom Learning Jul 31, 2023

Urszula Witherell is a true Professional and the very best SME in the Adobe Acrobat world of education. I am in the Learning Industry for many years supporting customers like the FDA, HHS, DOI and the majority the Federal Government Agencies with Training and Certifications. I have utilized the talents of Ursula for hundreds of Learners and now can share this Adobe Acrobat Ninja as a resource- a must own if you work regularly with Adobe Acrobat! Well done and glad to see you sharing your Tips and Tricks outside of the Classroom. Thank you

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