Fundamentals of Adobe Acrobat 8.0: Professional

Objectives

To provide document authors, technical support staff and others with the skills needed of the many and varied uses of PDF files and Acrobat. Please note that the topics below are for Acrobat Professional and will be reduced for the Standard or Elements versions.


Pre-requisites:

A knowledge of the chosen operating system (Mac OSX or Windows) and the source application from which PDF files will be created e.g. Microsoft Word, Quark XPress, Adobe InDesign etc.


Course Includes:

A comprehensive set of reference notes covering course topics, follow-up telephone support and, for training on Transmedia premises, lunch and refreshments.


Course Outline


Overview of Acrobat Family


· What is Acrobat? What is PDF?
· The full product line-up





Creating PDF's


· From MS Office (optional)
· Configure Adobe PDF Conversion settings
· Convert links
· Bookmarks
· Comments
· Attachments from word to PDF
· From High End Page Layout Applications. e.g. InDesign and Quark XPress
· From JPEG, TIFF, PNG and text files





Acrobat Distiller


· Different types of PDF and choosing the correct Distiller setting for High and Low resolution PDF's





Generating PDF from Web Pages

Combining multiple PDF's into a single PDF

Navigating around in Acrobat


· Task based menu
· Toolbars
· Tabs
· Page Views







The Organiser


· History
· Favourites and Collections
· Previewing pages





Commenting Tools and File attachments

Forms Introduction


· Creating basic form fields and auto form detections feature





Editing a PDF




· Using the Touch up Text and Touch up Tools
· Adding Pages
· Deleting Pages
· Rotating Pages
· Extracting Pages
· Cropping Pages
· Replacing Pages
· Using Multimedia Clips in a PDF
· Exporting data from a PDF





Optimise PDF's




· Resave PDF's from version control, file size reduction, font embedding and scrubbing documents



Security


· Security restrictions using password security and Security Policies







Questions and Answers