Adobe Acrobat Training

Across any industry, everyone can benefit from this informative hands-on training. Individuals who will be preparing forms
for intranet or internet use will learn many useful tips to get the most from Acrobat.

This course is for beginning Acrobat users. We require students to be familiar with using a mouse, file management and general operations of a Macintosh or Windows operating system.

Adobe Acrobat 8 Training Course Outline

Unit 1: Introducing Adobe Acrobat

* About Acrobat components
* Using Acrobat tools
* Using Acrobat palettes
* About on-screen display
* Navigating a document

Unit 2: Creating PDFs from Authoring Applications

* PDFWriter vs. Acrobat Distiller: how to
* Creating a PDF with PDFWriter
* Creating a PDF with Acrobat Distiller
* Creating multiple PDFs
* Viewing and comparing PDFs

Unit 3: Creating Navigational Structures

* Using bookmarks
* Using thumbnails
* Creating a cross-document link
* Replacing a page
* Using articles
* Linking to a web address
* Changing the opening display of a PDF

Unit 4: Modifying & Repurposing PDF Documents

* Editing pages
* Cropping pages
* Replacing, inserting, and deleting pages
* Rearranging pages in a PDF
* Editing text and images
* Adding headers & footers
* Reusing PDF content: text, tables & images Paper capture
* Snapshots & Watermarks

LESSON 5: Using Acrobat in a Document Review Cycle

* Working with annotation tools
* Adding stamps
* Using graphic markup tools
* Summarizing annotations
* Importing/exporting annotations
* Setting file security
* Setting up User Profiles
* Creating & using digital signatures

LESSON 6: Creating Forms

* Filling out forms
* Adding form fields
* Checkboxes, radio buttons, pop-up fields
* Form field calculations
* Creating a Reset button
* Submitting forms over the Web
* Using and adding buttons
* Using the Show/Hide Field actions
* Using custom calculation scripts
* Adding Buttons

LESSON 7: Creating PDFs from the Web

* Establishing appropriate settings
* Converting a Web page to PDF

LESSON 8: Customizing PDF Output Quality & Automation

* About compression and resampling
* Default compression settings
* Custom compression settings
* Batch actions
* Building indexes & searching

LESSON 9: Multimedia & Presentation PDFs

* Using page actions
* Using movies in PDF files
* Using sounds in a document

We offer Adobe Certified Acrobat Training classes in Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Diego, San Francisco, Austin, Boston, Las Vegas, Mechanicsburg, Chicago, and many other cities throughout the country via our partner network. We also offer one-on-one or onsite Acrobat training nationwide.