William A. Sabin (Bristol, ME) is a retired publisher of business books for The McGraw- Hill Companies and the coauthor of College English.

Adobe Creative Suite 2, Adobe’s tightly integrated set of design tools, offers enough goodies to make any graphic designer swoon. Since the Premium edition of this software collection includes Photoshop CS2, Illustrator CS 2, InDesign CS2, GoLive CS2, and Acrobat 7.0 Professional–as well as a handful of other shiny new tools–users will find everything they need to create beautiful content for print, the Web, and mobile devices. Here to make sure you master it quickly and completely is a self-paced guide from Adobe’s Creative Team--the folks behind the software. With the Classroom in a Book series, you learn by immersion. Step-by-step, project-based lessons walk you through sample real-life projects, while Review questions at the end of each chapter reinforce the new skills you’ve learned. The companion CD, filled with lesson and media files, will have you working on print, Web and PDF projects in no time. Whether you’re a graphic design novice, student, graphic designer, educator, or are just new to the Adobe Creative Suite, this book will give you a solid overview of Adobe’s creative design software.

Create and distribute PDF (Portable Document Format) files using Adobe Acrobat 7.0. This easy-to-follow guide shows you how to generate Adobe PDF files that retain the look and feel of the original documents, share PDFs, initiate and participate in PDF document Reviews, and prepare PDFs for print or the Web. You’ll also learn to develop interactive forms, secure your documents, and create PDFs from microsoft Office and other authoring applications. With coverage of Adobe Acrobat Standard and Professional editions, this hands-on resource will help you take full advantage of the premier paperless publishing and collaboration solution.

• Read and search PDF documents
• Convert virtually any document to PDF
• Capture documents from a scanner, digital camera, or Web page
• Create bookmarks, links, navigation menus, and use thumbnails
• Add digital signatures and document security
• Optimize documents for print, the Web, or other purposes
• Review, edit, and annotate PDFs in multi-author environments
• Create a searchable index
• Create PDF forms using Adobe Designer
• Add multimedia elements to PDFs

About the author: Doug Sahlin is a best-selling author, Web site designer, and Acrobat trainer. He teaches corporations and government organizations how to save time and money by converting paper documents to PDF. Sahlin’s other books include How to Do Everything with Adobe Acrobat 6.0, How to Do Everything with Adobe Encore DVD, and Digital Photography QuickSteps.

Here's everything you need to make the most of the software that's fast becoming the dominant professional tool. Take advantage of dynamic spell-checking, or create anchored objects that follow the text referring to them. Learn new object styles that let you easily apply consistent formatting and easily repeat transformations. Whether you're producing an ad campaign, a magazine, or an interactive PDF file, this comprehensive reference takes you step by step through the processes and techniques you need to create stunning layout projects.

Inside, you'll find complete coverage of InDesign CS2

• Enjoy enhanced integration with Adobe® Photoshop®, Illustrator®, and Acrobat®
• Quickly apply formatting to almost any object with new object styles
• Improve text handling with automatic bulleted or numbered lists, intelligent paragraph alignment, customizable Word import, and footnoting
• Customize InDesign with keyboard shortcuts, workspace arrangements, and other saved presets
• Easily switch presets in multi-user environments
• Use nested styles to apply multiple levels of formatting to text
• Create custom colors and duotone effects
• Learn how to make the switch from QuarkXPress® and PageMaker® painlessly
• Simplify workgroup operations with the InCopy® add-on

There are plenty of books available to teach you how to use the different tools that are a part of Adobe Illustrator CS2. But how many will actually show you how to work with the tools and techniques and apply them to real-world, relevant projects that you encounter every day at work? This one will. Adobe Illustrator CS2 @ Work: Projects You Can Use on the Job is a project-based guide that will help you complete workplace projects while you learn how to use Illustrator CS2. Detailed, well-explained instructions will help you accomplish job-related tasks, including:

• Designing and working with logos.
• Designing corporate identity materials.
• Illustrating a poster.
• Designing product packaging.
• Designing a trifold brochure.
• Designing a magazine advertisement.
• Designing a dvd package, label and menu.
• Designing a website.