Acrobat Introduction

Course Overview

This one day course has been designed for those with no knowledge of Acrobat, or those wishing to have an overview of the many and varied uses of PDF files and Acrobat.

Audience

Anybody wishes to gain an understanding of Acrobat.

Prerequisites

Knowledge of the chosen operating system ( Mac OS X or Windows) and the source application from which PDF files will be created (for example: Microsoft Word, QuarkXpress or Adobe InDesign).

Course Outline

Overview of Acrobat Family

• The full product line-up

Creating PDFs from Microsoft Office

• Configure Adobe PDF Conversion settings in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Convert links, bookmarks, comments, attachments from Word to PDF

Intro to Creating PDFs from High End Page Layout A

• E.g. InDesign and QuarkXPress

Acrobat Distiller

• Different types of PDF and choosing the correct Distiller setting for High and Low Resolution PDFs.

Generating PDF from Web pages

Combining multiple PDFs into a single PDF

Creating PDFs from JPEG, TIFF, PNG and text files.

Navigating 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 detection feature

Editing a PDF using the Touch up Text and Touch up

Adding, Deleting, Rotating, Extracting, Cropping a

Using Multimedia Clips in a PDF

Exporting data from a PDF

Optimise PDFs

• Re-save PDFs from version control, file size reduction, font embedding and scrubbing documents

Security

• Security restrictions using password security and Security Policies

Questions and Answers

Acrobat Introduction / CM030119