Adobe Acrobat 90 Fundamentals - 3 Days

Course Outline
Lesson 1 - Introducing Adobe Acrobat
About Adobe PDF
About Adobe Acrobat
Adobe PDF on the web
Getting started with Adobe Acrobat window
A first look at the work area
Viewing PDF presentations in Full Screen mode
Designing documents for online viewing
Using Organizer
Getting help
Lesson 2 Looking at the Work Area
Opening a PDF file in the work area
Working with Acrobat task buttons
Working with the navigation pane
Lesson 3 Creating Adobe PDF Files
About creating Adobe PDF files
Using the Create PDF command
Converting and combining different types of files
Using Print command to create Adobe PDF files
About the Adobe PDF Settings (presets)
Comparing the default Adobe PDF files
About compression and resampling
Exploring on your own: Dragging and dropping files
Exploring on your own: Creating Adobe PDF from the context menu (Windows)
Exploring on your own: Creating Adobe PDF from clipboard images
Lesson 4w Creating Adobe PDF from Microsoft Office Files (Windows)
About PDFMaker
About Acrobat Connect
Converting Microsoft Word files to Adobe PDF
Converting and emailing a PowerPoint presentations
Converting Excel documents and starting a review
Converting and attaching files in Microsoft Outlook
Converting web pages from Internet Explorer
Exploring on your own: Exporting tables from PDF files
Exploring on your own: Converting and combining multiple Office files
Lesson 4m Creating Adobe PDF from Microsoft Office Files (MAC OS)
About PDFmaker
Converting Microsoft Word files to Adobe PDF
Converting and emailing PowerPoint presentations
Tips on converting Excel files
Lesson 5 Combining Files in PDF Packagers
About PDF packages
Getting started
Collecting PDF files in a package
Navigating your PDF package
Making changes to PDF packages
Sorting PDF files in PDF packages
Searching PDF packages
Printing PDF packages
Lesson 6 - Creating Adobe PDF from Web pages
Converting Web pages to Adobe PDF
Connecting to the Web
Setting options for converting web pages
Creating Adobe PDF files from web pages
Updating converted web pages
Converting Web pages in Internet Explorer (Windows)
Lesson 7 Converting Email Files to Adobe PDF (Windows)
Getting started
Converting email messages to Adobe PDF
Sorting converted emails
Adding email messages to PDF packages
Printing emails
Migrating PDF archives to PDF packages (Outlook)
Setting up automatic archiving in Outlook
Lesson 8 Working with PDF Files
Changing the opening view
About the onscreen display
Reading PDF documents
Following links
Searching PDF documents
Printing PDF documents
Filling out PDF forms
Comparing documents
Using the Acrobat accessibility features
Lesson 9 Editing PDF documents
Opening and examining the work file
Moving pages with page thumbnails
Editing Adobe PDF pages
Editing links
Inserting one PDF file into another PDF file
Looking at bookmarks
Deleting a page
Renumbering pages
Setting an opening view
Lesson 10 More about Editing
About this lesson
Viewing the work file
Looking at articles
Editing text
Copying text and images from a PDF file
Editing images using the TouchUp Object tool
Converting PDF pages to image format files
Reducing the file size
Exploring on your own: Optimizing for page-at-a-time downloading
Lesson 11 Using Acrobat in a Review Cycle
About the review process
Opening the work file
Working with comments
Exporting and importing comments
Marking up documents
Summarizing comments
Comparing two Adobe PDF documents
Spell checking comments
Printing documents with comments
Inviting users of Adobe Reader to participate in reviews
Exploring on your own: Setting up email-based reviews
Exploring on your own: Custom stamps
Lesson 12 Adding Signatures and Security
Getting started
About digital signatures
Creating digital signatures
Adding images to your digital signatures
Selecting a signing method
Opening the work file
Crating digital IDs
Signing the advertisement
Modifying signed documents
About security
Looking at security settings
Adding security to PDF files
Adding passwords
Opening password-protected files
Certifying PDF files
Signing certified documents
Exploring on your own: Using security envelopes
Lesson 13 Creating Multimedia Presentations
Getting started
Adding interactive animations
Adding Show/ Hid fields
Controlling movie clips with buttons
Adding navigational buttons
Adding sound files and adding multiple actions to one button
Creating page actions to control multimedia clips
Opening movie clips in floating windows
Creating full screen presentations with transitions
Lesson 14 Using the Engineering and Technical Features
Getting started
Merging documents
Using the Pan & Zoom tool
Working with layers
Using measuring tools
Using the Loupe tool
Exporting measurements to spreadsheets
Using the Cloud Annotation tool
Preparing engineering documents for distribution
Permanently removing text from PDF documents
Lesson 15 Using the Legal Features
About Bates numbering and redaction
Applying Bates numbering
Defining Bates numbering
Finding Bates numbered PDF documents
Editing Bates numbering
Applying redaction
Setting the Redaction tool properties
Searching text for redaction
Creating PDF packages
Applying security
Lesson 16 Working with Forms in Acrobat
Getting started
Converting paper forms to interactive PDF forms
Adding text fields
Adding check boxes and buttons
Distributing forms
Tracking and managing forms
Exploring on your own: Calculating and validating numeric fields
Lesson 17 Creating Forms with Adobe LiveCycle Designer (Windows)
About Adobe LiveCycle Designer
Getting started
Looking at the work area
Building new forms
Adding text to a form
Adding graphics to forms
Adding text banners
Grouping objects
Adding content form fields
Adding radio buttons
Duplicating objects
Adding check boxes
Using Custom Library items
Adding shapes
Adding drop-down lists
Adding the current date
Previewing and exporting forms
Distributing forms
Exploring on your own: Exploring Adobe LiveCycle Designer
Lesson 18 Using Acrobat in Professional Publishing
Getting started
Creating PDF files for print and prepress
Preflighting files
Creating custom preflight profiles
Printing and layers
Previewing your print job
Working with transparency
Advanced printing controls
Setting up color management
Exploring on your own: The Acrobat prepress features
Lesson 19 Making Documents Accessible and Flexible
About this lesson
About flexibility
About accessibility
About structure
Looking at accessible documents
Making files flexible and accessible