Duration: 3 Days
In this course, you will learn to use Acrobat's cross-platform capabilities to distribute your documents efficiently without sacrificing their original design.
What You Will Learn
- Incorporate text, notes, graphics, and movies, as well as Internet links
- Menu and tools in Acrobat
Audience
Professionals who need to produce superb PDF documents
Prerequistes
Practical working knowledge of Mac OS X or Windows
Course Outline
1. Introducing Adobe Acrobat
- About Adobe PDF
- About Adobe Acrobat
- Adobe PDF on the web
- A first look at the work area
- Viewing PDF presentations in Full Screen mode
- Designing documents for online viewing
- Getting help
2. Creating Adobe PDF Files
- About creating Adobe PDF files
- Using the Create command
- Dragging and dropping files
- Converting different types of files
- Using PDFMaker (explained only)
- Using the Print command to create Adobe PDF files
- Reducing file size
- Optimizing PDF files (Acrobat Pro only)
- Scanning a paper document
- Making scanned text editable and searchable
- Converting web pages to Adobe PDF
3. Reading and Working with PDF Files
- Changing the opening view
- About the onscreen display
- Reading PDF documents
- Searching PDF documents
- Printing PDF documents
- Filling out PDF forms
- About
flexibility, accessibility, and structure
- Working with accessible documents
- Making files flexible and accessible (Acrobat Pro only)
- Using Acrobat accessibility features (Standard and Pro)
- Sharing PDF files
4. Enhancing PDF Documents
- Examining the work file
- Moving pages with page thumbnails
- Manipulating pages
- Renumbering pages
- Managing
links
- Working with
bookmarks
- Setting document
properties and metadata
5. Editing Content in PDF Files
- Editing text
- Working with
images in a PDF file
- Copying text and images from a PDF file
- Exporting PDF content to a PowerPoint presentation
- Saving PDF files as Word documents
- Extracting PDF tables as Excel spreadsheets
6. Combining Files
- About combining files
- Selecting files to combine
- Arranging pages
- Merging the
files
7. Adding Signatures and Security
- Getting started
- Viewing
documents in Protected Mode (Windows only)
- About security
- Viewing
security settings
- Adding
security to PDF files
- About
digital signatures
- Creating
digital signatures
- Signing
a document digitally
- Modifying signed documents
- Certifying PDF files
- Signing certified documents
- Exploring on your own: Using security envelopes
8. Using Acrobat in a Review
Cycle
- About the review
process
- Getting started
- Adding comments to a PDF
document
- Working with
comments
- Initiating a
shared review
9. Working with Forms in Acrobat
- Getting started
- Converting
PDF files to interactive PDF forms
- Adding form fields
- Distributing forms
- Collecting form data
- Working with form data
- Exploring on your own: Calculating and validating numeric fields
10. Using
Actions (Acrobat Pro)
- About
actions
- Using predefined
actions
- Creating an action
- Sharing actions
11. Using
Acrobat in Professional Printing
- Creating PDF files for print and prepress
- Preflighting files (Acrobat Pro)
- Working with transparency (Acrobat Pro)
- Setting up color management
- Previewing your print job (Acrobat Pro)
- Advanced printing controls
Course Labs
