Adobe Acrobat 9: Fundamentals (2-day)

Description

This Adobe Acrobat 9 training course will teach you all you need to create a series of lessons (each of which builds on the last and includes hands-on projects using the files on the CD-ROM). This class acquaints users with all of Acrobat's regular and industrial-strength features for creating, reviewing, editing, commenting on, modifying and preflighting PDF files.  If you are familiar with the basics of Acrobat, you will get up to speed on significantly overhauled new features available in Acrobat 9.

Acrobat 9 Pro offers a new PDF Portfolio feature that lets users bring multiple files together in a single interactive PDF portfolio.  Acrobat 9 Pro also offers users a dramatically overhauled form creation tool; a streamlined, interactive document review process; synchronized document view; powerful redaction tools; and more Acrobat Pro Extended (formerly Adobe Acrobat 3D Version 8) offers Windows users added functionality, such as new 3D capabilities, PDF mapping features, video conversion tools, native support for Flash technology (so users can include video, animations, and applications in Acrobat and Acrobat Reader PDF files), and Adobe Presenter, which lets users create interactive presentations with PowerPoint and then publish them to PDF.

Course Length

2 Days 

Course Outline

  • Introducing Adobe Acrobat 9
    • About Adobe PDF
    • About Adobe Acrobat
    • Adobe PDF on the web
    • A first look at the work area
    • Viewing PDF presentations in full screen mode
    • Designing documents for online viewing
    • Getting help
  • Looking at the work area
    • Opening a PDF file in the work area
    • Working with Acrobat tools and toolbars
    • Working with Acrobat task buttons
    • Working with the navigation pane
  • Creating Adobe PDF files
    • About creating Adobe PDF files
    • Using the create PDF command
    • Dragging and dropping files
    • Converting and combining different types of files
    • Using the Print command to create Adobe PDF files
    • About the Adobe PDF settings (presets)
    • Reducing file size
    • About compression and resampling
    • Inserting multimedia files
    • Scanning a paper document
    • Converting emails to PDF (Windows)
  • Creating Adobe PDF from Microsoft Office files (Windows)
    • About PDF Maker
    • Converting Microsoft Word files to Adobe PDF
    • Inserting 3D content into PowerPoint presentations (Acrobat Pro Extended)
    • Converting Excel documents and starting a review
    • Converting web pages from Internet Explorer
  • Combining files in PDF/Portfolios
    • About PDF portfolios
    • Creating a PDF portfolio
    • Customizing your PDF portfolio
    • Sharing your PDF portfolio
    • Securing a PDF portfolio
    • Searching a PDF portfolio
  • Reading and working with PDF files
    • Changing the opening view
    • About the onscreen display
    • Reading PDF documents
    • Searching PDF documents
    • Printing PDF documents
    • Filling out PDF forms
    • About flexibility, accessibility and structure
    • Looking at accessible documents
    • Making files flexible and accessible
    • Adding tags
    • Adding Alt Text (alternate text)
    • Using the Acrobat accessibility features
  • Enhancing and editing PDF documents
    • Looking at the work file
    • Moving pages with page thumbnails
    • Editing Adobe PDF pages
    • Editing links
    • Inserting one PDF file into another PDF file
    • Working with bookmarks
    • Deleting a page
    • Renumbering pages
    • Editing and extracting text and images
    • Editing images using the TouchUp object tool
    • Converting PDF pages to image format files
  • Adding signatures and security
    • About digital signatures
    • Creating digital signatures
    • About security
    • Looking at security settings
    • Adding security to PDF files
    • Adding passwords
    • Certifying PDF files
    • Signing certified documents
  • Using Acrobat in a review cycle
    • About the review process
    • Adding comments to a PDF document
    • About the commenting tools
    • Working with comments
    • Initiating a shared review
  • Working with forms in Acrobat
    • Converting PDF files to interactive PDF forms
    • Adding form fields
    • Distributing forms
    • Collecting form data
    • Working with form data
  • Creating multimedia presentations
    • Adding a video file to a PDF file (Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended)
    • Adding a Flash animation (Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended)
    • Assigning a poster file for a video or animation (Acrobat Pr and Pro Extended)
    • Creating a presentation
  • Using the legal features
    • About Bates numbering and redaction
    • Applying Bates numbering
    • Defining Bates numbering
    • Editing Bates numbering
    • Applying redaction
    • Changing the documents preferences
    • Setting the redaction tool properties
    • Searching text for redaction
    • Creating PDF portfolios
  • Using the engineering and technical features
    • Working with layers
    • Using the Pan & Zoom tool
    • Using the 2D measuring tools
    • Using the Loupe tool
    • Converting a drawing file to PDF (Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended)
    • Permanently removing text from PDF documents
    • Using the PDF Maps feature
    • Geospatial registration (Acrobat Pro Extended)
  • Using Acrobat in professional printing
    • Creating PDF files for print and prepress
    • Preflighting files (Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended)
    • Working with transparency (Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended)
    • Setting up color management
    • Previewing your print job
    • Advanced printing controls
  • Working with 3D in PDF files
    • About Acrobat Pro Extended and Adobe 3D Reviewer (Windows
    • Working with 3D content in PDF files
    • Reviewing and commenting in3D models
    • Converting 3D design files to PDF (Acrobat Pro Extended)
    • Using 3D PDF files in your manufacturing workflow (Acrobat Pro Extended)
    • Using 3D models in technical publishing (Acrobat Pro Extended)