Wiley Adobe Acrobat 8 PDF Bible 978-0-470-05051-4 사용자 설명서

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o start off this large book on Adobe Acrobat, let’s first take a look at what
Acrobat is and what PDF is, and let’s try to get a grasp on some of the
many options you have for working with PDF files in Acrobat. 

Assuming you know little about Adobe Acrobat, I start with a brief description of
what Acrobat is and what it is not. As I explain to people who ask about the
product, I usually define it as the most misunderstood application available
today. Most of us are familiar with the Adobe Reader software, which is a product
from Adobe Systems Incorporated that you can download free from the Adobe
Web site (

www.adobe.com/acrobat/readermain.html

). You can also

acquire the Adobe Reader from all the installation CD-ROMs for other Adobe
software. You can even acquire Adobe Reader from other sources, as long as the
Adobe licensing requirements are distributed with the installer program. The
Adobe Reader, however, is not Adobe Acrobat. Adobe Reader is a component of a
much larger product family that has evolved through several iterations over more
than a decade.

You’re probably a little more sophisticated and realize there is a major difference
between the applications noted previously and you may wonder why I even
spend any time discussing the difference between Acrobat and Adobe Reader.
Unfortunately, many people still believe that Adobe Acrobat is the free Adobe
Reader program.

To add a little more confusion, Adobe continues to market several Acrobat prod-
ucts in the Acrobat family. While Adobe Reader remains a free download from
Adobe Systems, there are three additional commercial viewers — Acrobat
Standard, Acrobat Professional, and Acrobat 3D. With the release of Acrobat 8,
Acrobat Standard is now offered only to Windows users, and has been dropped
from the Macintosh version. As I talk about Adobe Acrobat in this chapter, and

Getting to Know Adobe

Acrobat

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