Fundamentals of Adobe Acrobat 8.0: Professional for Business Users

Objectives

To provide office users, marketing personnel, IT staff and others with the skills needed to create PDFs from Microsoft Office Applications for archiving, emailing and electronic distribution who already have some knowledge of Acrobat.


Pre-requisites:

A knowledge of the chosen operating system (Mac OSX or Windows) and Microsoft Office


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


· The full product line-up





Creating and configuring PDF settings for


· Microsoft Word
· Powerpoint
· Excel





Acrobat Distiller


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



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





Headers/Footers and watermarks

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





Redaction - what is it?




· How to completely remove reference to sensitive or restricted information inside a PDF file





Commenting and Collaborating





Security


· Security restirctions using password security and Security Policies







Questions and Answers