Adobe Acrobat XI Classroom in a Book: The Official Training Workbook from Adobe Systems

First of all,I took Adobe Acrobat 11 as an online class,but had to drop it in the second week of the 8 week course because I could not fit the class assignments into my busy schedule. Thus,I was not able to ascertain the value of the book totally or as much as I wanted. I will say this,however,up-to-date Textbook material is valuable to me as I am a tactile/visual learner. Some of the material in the book DID NOT "synchronize" with the Lessons taught by my instructor,Windsor Green,which I find unsettling. I would rather have had a course that followed the textbook exercises,but Ms. Green had her class set up with Class Notes and watching Lynda.com videos.The DVD supplied with the book would have been very helpful to follow along with,but since Adobe Acrobat 11 would not be installed on a 2007 MacBook 3.1 computer I use with OS 10.5.8, I doubt that the DVD would work either. (SRJC has a policy that outside software cannot be used in the Public Computer Lab). I wrote pencil notes into the "Adobe Acrobat XI Classroom in a Book" so it is not returnable. The class at SRJC,CS 175.11,Introduction to Adobe Acrobat 11,will not be offered again until the Fall,2014 so I have a long wait before I can take the Class again. Who knows,by that time Adobe Acrobat 12 may roll out,and I would have to repurchase a new textbook anyway. Thank you Amazon,for the timely delivery of the book to my residence,and I would definitely use it again and recommend Amazon.com to fellow students.

I had a project I had to do that concerned combining 38 different types of documents in to one pdf and indexing the bookmarks three different ways. I had no experience at all. I bought the book and got it done in two working days. I was able to go right to the sections I needed without having to read about all the wonderful assets of Acrobat XI - in a time crunch, I cannot begin to tell you what a blessing that was! The book is pricey but the lessons and exercises (that come with the DVD) are awesome and worth every penny. If you are novice or you poke around with Acrobat and suddenly find you actually have to do something creative, don't waste your time fiddling. Get the book and git er done!

The thoroughness of the instructions and sequence of keystorkes are extremely accurate, thorough, and straightforward. The lesson files included on the DVD download effortlessly and work very well indeed as guidelines on the methodology to create pdf's with all necessary controls you want to incorporate in each particular document. The backup (conversion) of e-mails to pdf with the ability to perform this task automatically on a pre-determined schedlue is worth the price of the book itself.My Credentials: First computer course was in early 1970 on key-card-punch analog equipment through acquiring a master's in IT Business Management and have been exposed to over a dozen different publishers of tutorial guides. This is the best series I've found for users who are familiar with advanced beginner on up status. However, it requires a very comfortable and thorough knowledge of your computer, office or office-like applications, and OS. All of these requirements are spelled out in the beginning of the guide.

This book answers about 90% of my questions regarding Acrobat.I still go the web for the other 10%.Particularly good for beginners starting out with acrobat.

This may be an OK book for some beginners - those who have never used Acrobat before - but it skips over some very important basics, or just skims through them, and the Acrobat X book was actually better than this one. Acrobat Pro XI just didn't bring a lot new to the table and this sparse book shows that.For experienced users, I would just use the Adobe Acrobat XI online help... particularly if you're just upgrading from Acrobat X.Two stars - and then only for beginners.[edit] After quickly finishing up this CIB, I looked back of the Acrobat X version and found some things missing from the XI book that I consider necessities. Maybe if you're a beginner and buy them both, you'll understand Acrobat a little better. But be warned, neither offers anything in the way of scripting, very little on forms, etc. The Acrobat XI books just takes you deeper into document sharing and annotation (since Adobe is trying to sell you the Acrobat.com service, anyway).

The scope of its coverage was done well. However, I was looking for information on how to dynamically populate a list based on a real-time variable. There wasn't any information on how to embed an external language.

This book helps you learn how to use the Adobe Acrobat XI software, which has huge capabilities. It was not written as well as some of the other CIBs, IMO. I think a beginner would really be confused. For some forms, if you wish to do more than one form and receive feedback, you must pay for the privilege. All in all a very tool-descriptive book, but not for beginners.

This was our required Text. It was more reasonable. This book gives you step by step instruction through the book. Adobe also offers Classroom in a Book for Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and many of their other programs. All of the Classroom Books can help the novice Photographer, Scrap-booker, or anyone that is interested in art. For those that want to seriously pursue this type of program, Adobe offers certification in their various programs. Acrobat XI is very good but, to get the full advantage starting with Photoshop. I am sure that you could receive any of the books from Amazon.

I do not usually bother writing reviews at all but I thought this product deserved it. I thought I would take maximum advantage of my student discount before the window closed leaving me to pay 'silly money' for the Acrobat system. I chose this book purely at random. I downloaded the Kindle version of the book and reduced down'' both Acrobat and the 'e'book to accommodate the computer screen (27" Mac). This allowed me to simply 'click' on the book's links to download the learning packages and access other sites. Those with more than one computer might like to work on one and read from another. The book is well laid-out. Being rather older than most, I do not consider myself 'techno nerd', but I found the book very easy and straightforward to read and to follow. It allowed me to navigate into areas and to perform functions I never even knew existed and to create a variety of forms from 'scratch'. I would recommend this book for those who, like me, start as Adobe novices. I feel that I have received a good return for my money and would congratulate the author on producing an excellent piece of work.

For me, it fell into the common trap of using far too much peripheral information. I was bored stiff before it got to the essential point. Nor did it (or at least I didn't find where it did so) answer the particular problem I had. Trial and enter (or simply googling) provided more useful results.

For somebody starting from scratch it is a good book, well presented and thought out. However, I have been using Acrobat for many years and I wanted to learn some of the more esoteric features, it didn't help much with those.

Happy with book and price but 18 days to deliver from UK is stretching it.

So far, the book has answered my biggest questions and been an essential tool for completing tasks using Acrobat. From start to finish, this guidebook details each individual step in language that is clear, and easy to understand and follow. The book comes with a CD full of lessons and sample material, but you can easily substitute your own material in the lessons like I did. Although teaching myself how to use the many functions and features of Acrobat was not my preference, I had no choice as there were no classes available in my area. I am definitely glad that I purchased this manual to help me learn this software. Without it, I would be totally lost.