I've never used the Adobe Acrobat app before--occasionally distiller from Quark in days gone by, and (since OSX.3) I've used "print to PDF" all the time.

Any comments on how I should take advantage of additional capability now that I own Acrobat Pro (came w/CS3), or on what the learning curve is w/Acrobat Pro...

I'd like to incorporate Acrobat into my workflow (if you all advise that) for situations like, I have a layered Photoshop doc a/some text to export (ferinstance).

Thanks.

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Acrobat Pro is good, but not the only tool I understand, for combining multiple PDF documents into one final PDF. Or, if you really needed to, you could also use it to rearrange the pages in a final PDF document.

You can also use it for OCR stuff. At leat in my version, 7.09, I can convert scanned documents into text documents. Haven't tried it yet, but it's under one of the menus.

I'm sure there's more, I could only think of 2 off the top of my head.

Jeff

Thanks Kj--

I'm more interested in Acrobat's ability to export press-ready documents from ones thjat would be less-welcome at the service bureau (like a layered PSD).

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I would just ask the service bureau then how they want the documents. Sit down with their pre-press guy and take some notes. Get back to your machine and send a test document to them.

Jeff

Yeah, the Print to PDF function was never good for producing press-ready PDFs anyway. However, you can't beat the convenience it offers for doing quick captures of various bits of info to PDF files. I use it all the time to produce receipts for web orders and stuff like that.

Photoshop will save files straight to PDF all by itself -- no Acrobat Pro needed for that.