Computer WorkGroup Training

An Introduction to

Adobe Acrobat

Course Title : Introduction to Adobe Acrobat

Duration : 1 Day

Pricing : Basic - 1 person $750, 2 people $850 for both (see pricing page for full details)

Pre-requisites : Introduction to Windows or the Mac or equivalent experience.

For Whom: The course is intended for people who wish to create Acrobat documents for dissemination to other users, to review Acrobat documents and to use features of Acrobat to enhance the documents.

Course Objectives: At the conclusion of the training participants will be able to -

  • Create an Acrobat document
  • Navigate through a PDF file
  • Select security options for their documents
  • Control font usage in the document
  • Create bookmarks & thumbnails
  • Create an Acrobat Form
  • Markup documents for review
  • Create and use indexes
  • Create an Acrobat Presentation

COURSE OUTLINE

ADOBE ACROBAT - 1 DAY INTENSIVE INTRODUCTION

Overview
  • What is Adobe Acrobat?
  • Value of PDF’s
  • The Acrobat family
  • Creating PDF’s.
  • Easy Navigation
  • Yes, PDF’s can be edited
The Acrobat Working Environment
  • Using Acrobat tools
  • Customising Acrobat toolbars
  • Using Acrobat palettes
  • Navigating a document
  • Using the online Adobe Acrobat help
  • Printing PDF’s
CREATING A PDF DOCUMENT
  • The PDF Writer vs Acrobat Distiller
  • Creating PDF documents
  • Creating from other Adobe products
  • Converting Microsoft Office documents
  • Converting Paper documents
  • Converting Web Pages
Creating Navigational Structures
  • Creating and using thumbnails
  • Creating and using bookmarks
  • Creating Hyperlinks
  • Creating a cross-document link
  • Using articles
Changing PDF Documents
  • Moving and adding pages
  • Editing text and images
  • Copying Text from a PDF
  • Converting a PDF file to an image format
  • Replacing a page
  • Combining Acrobat documents
Controlling PDF Output Quality
  • Controlling PDF output quality
  • Distiller Job Options
  • Compression and resampling
  • Using watched folders
Comments
  • Working with comments
  • Summarising comments
  • Filtering comments
  • Importing and Exporting comments
Security
  • Protecting the document
  • Digital Signatures
  • Sign & Save option
  • Reviewing Versions
Basic Forms
  • Working with forms online
  • Adding form fields
  • Filling out the fields
Capture from Web and Paper
  • Scanning Documents
  • Converting to text
  • Reviewing suspect words
  • Converting a Web page to PDF
  • Conversion Options
  • Updating converted pages
Acrobat Search & Catalog
  • Selecting an Index
  • Search Techniques
  • Creating Indexes
Acrobat as a Multimedia presentation tool
  • Using and adding buttons
  • Adding a Go to View button
  • Determining the opening display of a document
  • Combining buttons and page actions
  • Creating special effects on buttons
  • Using movies in PDF files
  • Using sounds in a document
  • Using the Show/Hide Field action
Distributing PDF Documents
  • Distributing PDF documents
  • Adding Acrobat Reader installers
  • Document collections

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