By Daniel J. Siegel & Pamela A. Myers
Published by American Bar Association Law Practice Edition
KF 322.5 .A36 S56 2021
Adobe® Acrobat® is synonymous with PDF, or portable document format, a file format that maintains the formatting and properties of the original document and allows for viewing regardless of the software application that was used to create the source document. Since its conception by Adobe Inc. in the 1990s, the PDF has found its place in the vernacular and has become the standard for digital documents. With the advent of electronic filing, or e-filing, courts nationwide began to require all submitted documents by attorneys to be PDFs. Now, such practice has become the norm.
Although Adobe® Acrobat® Reader, the downloadable, free PDF viewer is the more familiar software to most folks, Adobe® Acrobat® DC offers users so much more functionality and features that one cannot find with Reader alone. Authors Daniel J. Siegel & Pamela A. Myers have created a guide, The Ultimate Guide to Adobe® Acrobat® DC, to help users get the most out of Adobe® Acrobat® DC. Aside from the benefit of having a standard file format, Adobe® Acrobat® DC and PDFs, in general, offer users the opportunity for greater productivity, searchable text, and security. Beginning with the basics of opening a PDF file, the authors walk readers through using the features of the toolbars and task panes and viewing and printing PDFs before digging into more advanced features, such as creating and saving PDFs, working with bookmarks and thumbnails, combining files, adding headers and footers, making scanned text editable and searchable, editing PDFs, adding comments and signatures, creating an index, and so much more. The authors even explain how Adobe® Acrobat® can be used for discovery and document production.
Whether you’re new to Adobe® Acrobat® or a seasoned user who might need a refresher on some of its finer points, The Ultimate Guide to Adobe® Acrobat® DC is the book for you. You can find it here at the Law Library in our Legal Tech Collection.