1. Chapter 1 Consuming PDF

   1. Introduction: Hacks #1-14

   2. Read PDFs with the Adobe Reader

   3. Read PDFs with Mac OS X's Preview

   4. Read PDFs with Ghostscript's GSview

   5. Speed Up Acrobat Startup

   6. Manage Acrobat Plug-Ins with Profiles on Windows

   7. Open PDF Files Your Way on Windows

   8. Copy Data from PDF Pages

   9. Convert PDF Documents to Word

   10. Browse One PDF in Multiple Windows

   11. Pace Your Reading or Present a Slideshow in Acrobat or Reader

   12. Pace Your Reading or Present a Slideshow in Mac OS X Preview

   13. Unpack PDF Attachments (Even Without Acrobat)

   14. Jump to the Next or Previous Heading

   15. Navigate and Manipulate PDF Using Page Thumbnails

2. Chapter 2 Managing a Collection

   1. Introduction: Hacks #15-23

   2. Bookmark PDF Pages in Reader

   3. Create Windows Shortcuts to Online PDF Pages with Acrobat

   4. Create Windows Shortcuts to Local PDF Pages

   5. Turn PDF Bookmarks into Windows Shortcuts

   6. Generate Document Keywords

   7. Index and Search Local PDF Collections on Windows

   8. Spinning Document Portals

   9. Spinning Collection Portals

   10. Identify Related PDFs

3. Chapter 3 Authoring and Self-Publishing: Hacking Outside the PDF

   1. Introduction: Hacks #24-31

   2. Keep Your Source Smart

   3. Convey Your Document's Value with Good Design

   4. Create Charts and Graphs from Raw Data

   5. Become a Publisher

   6. Print at Home, at the Office, or at Kinko's

   7. Publish POD and E-books

   8. Sell Through Amazon

   9. Sell Your Book, Sell Yourself

4. Chapter 4 Creating PDF and Other Editions

   1. Introduction: Hacks #32-50

   2. Create Interactive PDF with Your Word Processor

   3. Create a Printable, On-Screen Edition from Word

   4. Multipurpose PDF

   5. Create an HTML Edition from Your Word Processor

   6. Create a Handheld Edition from Your HTML

   7. Convert Documents from Tools You Don't Own to PDF

   8. Acrobat Distiller and Its Profiles

   9. Print to PDF with Ghostscript and RedMon on Windows

   10. Save As PDF with Mac OS X

   11. Maximize PDF Portability

   12. Configure Distiller and Ghostscript for Your Purpose

   13. Embed and Subset Fonts to Your Advantage

   14. Share a PDF Network Printer with Samba

   15. Print to Image and Other Rasterizing Options

   16. Print to SVG

   17. Print Over the Internet

   18. Create a PDF Album of Your Digital Pictures

   19. Print to Fax on Windows

   20. Convert Incoming Faxes to PDF on Linux

5. Chapter 5 Manipulating PDF Files

   1. Introduction: Hacks #51-73

   2. Split and Merge PDF Documents (Even Without Acrobat)

   3. Encrypt and Decrypt PDF (Even Without Acrobat)

   4. Add PDF Encryption Actions to Windows Context Menus

   5. Add Attachments to Your PDF (Even Without Acrobat)

   6. Easily Attach Your Document's Tables

   7. Add PDF Attachment Actions to Windows Context Menus

   8. Create a Traditional Index Section from Keywords

   9. Rasterize Intricate Artwork with Illustrator or Photoshop

   10. Crop Pages for Clarity

   11. Refry Before Posting Documents Online

   12. Copy Features from One PDF to Another

   13. Polish Your PDF Edition

   14. Add and Maintain PDF Bookmarks

   15. Get and Set PDF Metadata

   16. Add a Web-Style Navigation Bar to PDF Pages

   17. Copy-Protect Your PDF

   18. Support Online PDF Reading

   19. Force PDF Download Rather than Online Reading

   20. Hyperlink HTML to PDF Pages

   21. Create an HTML Table of Contents from PDF Bookmarks

   22. PDF Web Skins

   23. Share PDF Comments Online (Even Without Acrobat)

   24. Tally Topic Popularity

6. Chapter 6 Dynamic PDF

   1. Introduction: Hacks #74-92

   2. Collect Data with Online PDF Forms

   3. Serve Filled-Out PDF Forms

   4. Drive PDF Forms with Your Data

   5. PDF Form-Filling Sessions

   6. Permanently Merge a PDF Form and its Data

   7. Tool Up with pdftk

   8. Decipher and Navigate PDF at the Text Level

   9. Edit PDF Code Freely

   10. Integrate pdftk with gVim for Seamless PDF Editing

   11. Modify PDF Hyperlinks at Serve-Time

   12. Tailor PDF Text at Serve-Time

   13. Use HTML to Create PDF

   14. Use Perl to Create PDF

   15. Use PHP to Create PDF

   16. Use Java to Create PDF

   17. Assemble Pages and Serve PDF

   18. Superimpose PDF Pages

   19. Generate PDF Documents from XML and CSS

   20. Create PDF with XSL-FO and FOP

7. Chapter 7 Scripting and Programming Acrobat

   1. Introduction: Hacks #93-100

   2. Modify or Convert Batches of Documents

   3. Script Acrobat Using Visual Basic on Windows

   4. Script Acrobat Using Perl on Windows

   5. Customize Acrobat Using JavaScript

   6. Tool Up for Acrobat Plug-In Development

   7. Explore the Acrobat SDK Documentation and Examples

   8. Use Acrobat Plug-Ins to Extend PDF

   9. PostScript and PDF Games

1. Colophon

Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The tool on the cover of PDF Hacks is a sledge hammer. The sledge hammer is a heavy hammer with a long handle designed to drive wedges or stakes. While handheld hammers rarely weigh more than four pounds, sledge hammers generally range in weight from six to twelve pounds. The head of the sledge hammer is usually fashioned from forged steel, and the handle is typically wood or fiberglass. In olden times, blacksmiths used the sledge hammer to forge metal. Brian Sawyer was the production editor and proofreader for PDF Hacks. Audrey Doyle was the copyeditor. Emily Quill and Darren Kelly provided quality control. Julie Hawks wrote the index.

Hanna Dyer designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a photograph from the Stockbyte Work Tools CD. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.11 using Adobe's Helvetica Neue and ITC Garamond fonts.

David Futato designed the interior layout. This book was converted by Julie Hawks to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies.

Brian Sawyer saved this book's FrameMaker source files to PostScript format and then used Acrobat Distiller to create final PDF versions to send to the printer.

The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Helvetica Neue Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Jessamyn Read using Macromedia FreeHand 9 and Adobe Photoshop 6. This colophon was written by Sanders Kleinfeld.