Книга: Adobe Creative Suite: Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Indesign, Adobe After Effects

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Indesign, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Encore, Adobe Incopy, Adobe Golive, Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Imageready, Adobe Acrobat Connect, Adobe Bridge, Adobe Audition, Adobe Soundbooth, Adobe Device Central, Adobe Version Cue, Adobe Onlocation, Adobe Ultra. Excerpt: Adobe Acrobat is a family of computer programs developed by Adobe Systems , designed to view, create, manipulate and manage files in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). Some software in the family, particularly the creating software, are commercial, and some are freeware . Adobe Reader (formerly Acrobat Reader) is available as a no-charge download from Adobe's web site, and allows the viewing and printing of PDF files. Acrobat and Reader are widely used as a way to present information with a fixed layout similar to a paper publication. History Since the early 1990s, the Acrobat product had several competitors who each used their own document formats, such as: By the late 1990s PDF had become the de facto standard, and the others had become largely historical footnotes. This in turn has led to many more competitors for Adobe Acrobat, providing both free and commercial programs that create or manipulate PDF, such as Ghostscript , Foxit , and Nitro PDF . Adobe also allows Acrobat plug-ins to be developed by third parties, which can add extra functions within the Acrobat program. Product names Adobe has changed the names of the products in the Acrobat family regularly, also splitting-up, joining, or discontinuing products. Between version 3 and 5, Standard and Professional versions were one product simply called Adobe Acrobat. As of October 2009, the current main members of the Adobe Acrobat family are: Adobe Reader...