Adobe Acrobat 8: Jumpstart "ZERO to HERO"

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Course Overview

Improve the way in which you create, combine, distribute and share Adobe PDF documents with this highly acclaimed introduction course. Scoring the highest marks out of all our Adobe courses, we highly recommend taking this one day Introduction course.

This training may be available onsite; please contact us if you are interested.

Audience

This course is designed for anyone who will use a computer and Acrobat 8 Standard or Professional to work with PDF files.

Skills Gained

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• access information in a PDF document.
• create PDF documents.
• modify PDF documents.
• add PDF navigation aids.
• work with multiple PDF documents.
• review PDF documents.

Prerequisites

Minimal experience with computers and common office applications, such as word processing, spreadsheet, and web browser applications.

Course Outline

Overview of Acrobat Family

Understanding the product line-up

• Create PDF from Microsoft Office
• Generate PDFs from Microsoft Office
• The PDF Maker
• Embedding bookmarks, TOC, links
• Document repurposing
• Powerpoint to PDF presentations
• HTML pages to PDF
• Archiving with Microsoft Outlook

Acrobat Distiller the creation engine

• Create low and high quality PDFs
• Impact of resolution and font embedding
• PDF versioning

Generating PDF from Web pages

• Conversion options
• Output control
• Embedded media settings
• Flash control

Combine into PDF or package

• Combine PDFs into single file
• Combine PDFs into PDF Package
• Advantages of single files
• Advantages of PDF packages

Creating PDF from image formats

• Direct conversion from explorer
• Conversion options and file formats
• Considerations
• Image compression factors

The Organiser for your documents

• Explore the organiser
• Favourite places
• Exploring metadata
• Network places
• Previewing content

Headers/footers and watermarks

• Add headers and footers
• Edit headers and footers
• Transparency effects
• Remove content

Navigating from within Acrobat

• New customised toolbars
• Reset workspace
• Navigating views and pages
• Keyboard shortcuts

Forms Introduction

• Forms basics
• Auto forms recognition
• Adding submit button

Editing and converting Text

• Use the touch-up text tool to amend text
• Change properties
• Repurpose

Export data from inside a PDF

• Save out text
• Save out images
• Document wide extraction
• Conversion options

Optimise your PDF file

• Check for file content
• Reduce image size and compression
• Edit font embedding and remove metadata
• Flatten forms fields, remove comments

RedAct your files - quickly

• Remore both text and image content
• Permanent removal through manual or search criteria
• Applying RedAction codes
• Considerations

Secure your PDF file

• Different types of Acrobat security
• Security Policies
• Applying security and testing
• Removing security

Removing security

• Adobe Acrobat Connect
• Product overview
• Creating a user account
• Remote presentations
• Gaining control of users desktop
• White board tools
• Chat and communication pods

Enhancing metadata control for the web

• Acrobat metadata
• Editing course file metadata
• Web considerations
• PDF versioning with search engines

Combining documents

• Conversion options for native documents
• Recycle content
• Differents between multi-page and PDF Packages
• PDF versioning

Send for Review on-line workflow

• Deploy external location for comments
• Network topologies
• Sending a shared review invite
• Connecting to shared server
• Adding and manipulating comments
• Shared Tracker Review
• Synchronisation outside of Acrobat

Forms workflow with the free Adobe Reader

• Generating a simple PDF (Acro) Form
• Adding a submit button
• Examples of Form recognition
• Sending a forms workflow message
• Submitting and saving data with Adobe Reader
• Collecting data and analysis

Digital Signatures

• Creating a password drive digital signature
• Creating a signature appearance
• Siging and document - visibly and invisible
• Examples of third party solutions
• Exchanging digital signatures
• Creating trusted identities
• Applying security policies with trusted identities

Acrobat plugins

• Exploring how plugins work
• Enabling and disabling
• Plugin framwork

Editing Objects inside Acrobat

• Place images
• Scale and rotate
• Crop and flip
• Cut, paste and move
• Colour convert objects
• Integration with Adobe Photoshop
• Integration with Adobe Illustrator

Editing and converting Text

• Amend text, change properties and re-purpose
• Create new text

Adobe Acrobat 8: Jumpstart "ZERO to HERO" / ACR8L12D