Adobe Framemaker 5.5: Classroom in a Book

by Adobe Creative Team

Book Overview

Provides the fastest, easiest, and most comprehensive way to master Adobe Acrobat 4.0. Covers the basics of Acrobat and the tips and techniques to help you quickly become an Acrobat pro. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568303998
• ISBN13: 9781568303994
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Adobe Pr
• Length: 351 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

As good as all other "classroom in a book" manuals

Adobe PDF is a very common file format, largely due to the PDF's ability to faithfully maintain the formatting of a document while offering smaller file sizes, searchable text, printability, and integration with the most popular web browsers. The availability of a PDF viewer, Adobe Acrobat Reader, for free download has played a decisive role in popularity of this file standard. I purchased Adobe Acrobat primarily to be able to create PDF files from Word documents and the like. Although Acrobat comes with a detailed manual available through the "help" menu, it took me almost a year before I actually decided to learn what one can do in Acrobat besides creating PDF files. I decided to start with the "Classroom in a book" manual since I already had positive experience with this series. Indeed, I was not disappointed. First, I discovered many advanced capabilities of Acrobat, which can make PDF format more convenient than any other format; secondly, it was a pleasure to work with the book. If you never used the Adobe "Classroom in a book" series before, the following comments may be useful:a) the book does not contain anything that is not included in Acrobat Help; In fact, it even contains less information as it periodically referres the readers to one or another chapter of the online manual. The only purpose of this book is to help you to get a "hands-on" practical experience with the program using the example files from the enclosed CD.b) this book is for the beginners. Acrobat is generally not as sophisticated as many other Adobe products, and this book does not even attempt to go into much detail. If you know nothing about Acrobat, you will find it helpful.c) Unlike many computer books, this one is very carefully written and edited. The guidelines are very easy to follow both for Windows and Mac users. In this sense, it is an excellent and a very accurate tutorial.d) most likely you will use this book only once. Later on you would rather refer to Acrobat Help than to the book since the latter one is more complete. Getting this book from the library may be an option to consider.

Check it Out !

This is one book which can help you to unleash your creativity with PDF. Even if you are a guru of PDF, this shall make you better...

Adobe Publishing at its best

Clear and precise, this classroom really does offer excellent teaching. This pupil is learning all the time. Now wouldn't it be a good idea for Adobe to make their own teaching CD-ROMs?

Adobe does Acrobat right.

Adobe products usually work well and have a strong support group behind them, this work is no exception. Acrobat is a good product and the team that put this book and CD together is obviously well versed and dedicated to teaching. You learn a lot and have an easy to use reference and guide. It is clear, concise, and well organized. It is worth the price.

Must have for Framemaker neophytes

I recommended Frame to my company and had to quickly learn how to use it and be productive from day 1. I purchased this book and went through it. The proof of the book's quality was when I recently took a Frame Int/Adv course, there wasn't much that was new for me to learn. One word of advice... Go through the lessons then use Frame in your work. Go through the book again in about 3 months - you'll reinforce concepts and learn something new, since you'll be able to apply certain features to the work you have in progress.I HIGHLY recommend this book to all Frame users. Now if only Adobe could get some help with their online help ....