Acrobat guru Ted Padova uses a step-by-step approach to show how to create interactive PDF forms for any kind of business or governmental use.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 2.5 / 5.0
Disapointment:
I expected more details from this book and frankly I wasted my money. The PDF Bible is a much better resource for forms.
Beware -:
This book is horribly outdated! If you have Acrobat 5, - fine. Or maybe not so fine... use the money you would have spent on this book and upgrade to the current Adobe version: Acrobat 7 as of Sept 2006.
..and beware of Wiley Books that don't specifiy the application version - - Wiley is notorious for this -- remember, when purchasing a Wiley book -- think twice if the version of the application is not specified..
Not Acrobat 6.0!:
I wish I had known that this was not going to cover Acrobat 6. The current version of acrobat does forms completely different than version 5. This is a dinosaur now.
Clearly explains a powerful Acrobat feature:
This book reveals one of the best kept secrets of Acrobat 5.0 - easy to create forms handling and workflow. Actually the features aren't secret, but the Adobe documentation is so confusing that only the most technically inclined users made use of it. The author clearly explains how to create forms and employ them as business solutions.
What I like is the way you're introduced to all of the features of Acrobat, including products that are only available through direct purchase from Adobe, that places forms... more info