Adobe Acrobat 7

This course covers both Adobe Professional and Acrobat Standard for designers, developers, and business users. Where a tool or feature is specific to Acrobat Professional, the information is italicized and called out with an icon in the coursebook.

This course will get you started with the basic concepts of Acrobat, but gives you a path to continue your mastery of the application. This is a great primer for those seeking their Adobe certification.

This class is geared for those just starting out with PDFs, or those who want to learn more about security or collaboration tools within Acrobat. This includes individuals who work in print, web and multimedia.

Lesson 1: Introducing Adobe Acrobat

• About Adobe PDF
• About Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe PDF on the World Wide Web
• Looking at some examples
• Designing documents for online viewing

Lesson 2: Getting to Know the Work Area

• Opening the work file
• Using the Acrobat tools, toolbars, and task buttons
• Using Acrobat palettes and tabs
• Using context menus
• About the on-screen display
• Setting up a work area
• Using the navigation controls in the status bar
• Following links
• Printing PDF files
• Using the Acrobat 7.0 online Help
• Using Adobe Online

Lesson 3: Converting Microsoft Office Files (Windows)

• About PDFMaker
• Converting a Microsoft Word file to Adobe PDF
• Converting and emailing a PowerPoint presention
• Converting an Excel document and starting a review
• Converting and attaching a file in Microsoft Outlook
• Converting web pages from Internet Explorer

Lesson 3: Converting Microsoft Office Files (Mac OS)

• About PDFMaker
• Converting a Microsoft Word file to Adobe PDF
• Converting and emailing a PowerPoint presention
• Tips on converting Excel files

Lesson 4: Converting files to Adobe PDF

• About creating Adobe PDF files
• Creating an Adobe PDF file using the Create PDF command
• Converting and combining different types of files
• Using the Print command to create Adobe PDF files
• Searching a PDF file

Lesson 5: Creating Adobe PDF from Web Pages

• Converting Web pages to Adobe PDF
• Connecting to the web
• Setting options for converting Web pages
• Creating an Adobe PDF file from a Web page
• Updating converted Web pages
• Building an Adobe PDF file of favorite Web pages
• Converting web pages in Internet Explorer (Windows)

Lesson 6: Customizing Adobe PDF Output Quality

• Controlling Adobe PDF output quality
• About the Adobe PDF Settings
• Using the default Adobe PDF Settings
• About compression and resampling
• Using custom compression settings
• Reducing file size

Lesson 7: Modifying PDF Files

• Opening and examining the work file
• Moving pages with page thumbnails
• Editing Adobe PDF pages
• Editing links
• Inserting PDF files
• Looking at bookmarks
• Renumbering pages
• Adding sound
• Setting an opening view

Lesson 8: More on Editing PDF Files

• Looking at articles
• Editing text
• Copying text and images from a PDF file
• Acrobat 7.0 Professional: Editing Images using TouchUP Object tool
• Converting a PDF page to an image format file
• Reducing the file size

Lesson 9: Making Documents Accessible and Flexible

• About flexibility
• About accessibility
• About structure
• Looking at accessible documents
• Looking at the reading order
• Making files flexible and accessible
• Acrobat 7.0 Professional: Viewing the results of adding tags
• Using the Acrobat accessibility feature

Lesson 10: Using Acrobat in a Document Review Cycle

• Working with comments
• Exporting and importing comments
• Setting the review status and replying to comments
• Marking up a document
• Summarizing comments
• Acrobat 7.0 Professional: Comparing two Adobe PDF documents
• Spell checking comments
• Printing documents with comments
• Acrobat 7.0 Professional: Inviting users of Adobe Reader to participate in reviews

Lesson 11: Adding Signatures and Security

• Creating a digital ID
• Signing the advertisement
• Certifying a PDF file
• Signing a certified document
• Looking at security settings
• Adding security to your PDF files

Lesson 12: Creating Multimedia Presentations

• Adding an interactive animation
• Adding a Show/Hide field
• Adding a movie clip and controlling it with buttons
• Adding, aligning, and duplicating navigational buttons
• Adding a sound file and adding two actions to one button
• Creating page actions to control multimedia clips
• Creating page actions to start multimedia clips
• Opening a movie clip in a floating window
• Creating a full screen presentation with transitions

Lesson 13: Using Acrobat's Engineering and Technical Features

• Merging documents
• Enhanced navigation tools: Pan & Zoom
• Working with layers
• Using measuring tools
• Enhanced navigation tools: Loupe
• Preparing engineering documents for distribution
• Comparing documents

Lesson 14: Creating PDF Forms

• Converting paper forms to PDF forms
• Adding text fields
• Adding special format restrictions
• Adding check boxes
• Creating a multi-line text fields
• Adding radio buttons
• Exporting form data
• Creating an electronic order form
• Adding combo boxes
• Duplicating fields
• Validating text/numeric fields
• Formatting a data field
• Formatting a data field
• Adding a submit button

Lesson 15: Using Adobe Acrobat for Professional Publishing

• Creating PDF files for print & prepress
• Preflighting
• Layers
• Output preview
• Working with transparency
• Advanced printing controls

Lesson 16: Creating Forms with Adobe LiveCycle Designer

• Working with objects and palettes
• Changing views
• Building a new form
• Adding text to a form
• Adding graphics to a form
• Grouping Objects
• Adding content to the form body
• Creating a radio button
• Duplicating an object
• Adding and using Custom Library items
• Adding shapes
• Adding a drop-down list
• Creating a Submit button
• Previewing and exporting the form