Description: -- Processes, equipment selection, software, troubleshooting, and beyond. Includes up-to-the-minute coverage of Acrobat 4.05!
-- Sophisticated solutions: PDF touch-ups, In-RIP trapping, scanning to PDF, creating searchable catalogs, using third-party plug-ins, and more!
-- The first book to cover the use of XML with PDF files!

This is the first start-to-finish professional's guide to digital, PDF-based workflow with Acrobat and InDesign! Frank Romano -- the industry's leading expert -- shows exactly how to use PDF to achieve breakthrough speed, productivity, and creativity. From preflighting to color management, trapping to RIPping, it's covered here: the best practices, answers, and workarounds that would otherwise take years to discover. This book covers every aspect of setting up and managing digital workflow with PDF and Adobe's Acrobat and InDesign tools. Learn how to choose the right equipment for digital workflow environments; and establish efficient designer/printer relationships that enable outstanding work. Discover crucial options, settings, and techniques for creating and applying PDF files; and learn how to use PDF in diverse applications, from short runs and personalization to repurposing and archiving. The book includes detailed coverage of converting paper to PDF with Adobe Capture; advanced In-RIP trapping, third-party PDF plug-ins, and much more. You'll find proven solutions to dozens of real-world problems, from PDF touch-ups to distilling files on a network, creating searchable PDF catalogs to handling TrueType fonts -- even creating separations from Microsoft Office files!