Chapter 41. Understanding the Acrobat Working Environment

IN THIS CHAPTER

Best Practices (When to Use and Not Use Acrobat)

New Acrobat Features

File Formats Supported

The Designer Environment (Windows Only)

It's difficult to imagine document transfers without PDF nowadays. Since its introduction by Adobe in 1992, the Portable Document Format (PDF) has become as essential to document distribution worldwide as computers themselves. This format has grown from a solution to cross-platform document portability (hence its name) to become the key piece that has made digital print workflow a reality. Together with PDF came Acrobat, Adobe's tool for creating and editing PDF documents.