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About Adobe Acrobat

PDFs have revolutionised the way designers and computer operators communicate with printers, colleagues and other businesses. Acrobat's ability to preserve exact layouts with fonts intact and to also minimise file size is one reason why Acrobat and pdfs are used by virtually anyone who uses a computer. The one day course focuses on generating and repurposing PDFs suitable for either on-screen viewing, reproduction on a colour printer or taking direct to the printing press.

What you will learn

During the 1 day Acrobat Essentials course, the following topics are covered. See outline below course dates for more indepth detail:

  • - The Acrobat Interface
  • - Creating Adobe PDFs
  • - Combining Files in PDF Portfolios
  • - PDFs from Microsoft Files
  • - Reading & Working with PDFs
  • - Enhancing & Editing PDFs
  • - Adding Signatures & Security
  • - Using Acrobat to Review
  • - Creating Multimedia Presentations
  • - Creating PDFs from Web Pages
  • - PDF for Print
  • - Working with Forms

 

 

 

 

Acrobat's Interface

  • - The difference between Acrobat and Adobe Reader
  • - The interface
  • - Navigation
  • - Customizing the toolbars
  • - Working with the navigation panels
  • - Zoom tools
  • - Understanding the window views
  • - Using the Organizer
  • - Auto-saving
  • - Full Screen and Reading modes

Creating PDFs

  • - Creating a PDF from the web
  • - Creating a PDF from a file
  • - Setting PDF file preferences
  • - Creating a PDF from a blank page
  • - Creating multiple PDFs in a batch
  • - Creating PDFs from InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop

Combining Documents

  • - Combining documents
  • - Creating a merged document

Editing PDFs

  • - Inserting and deleting pages
  • - Embedding and removing thumbnails
  • - Moving, rotating, and cropping
  • - Extracting and replacing pages
  • - Splitting PDFs
  • - Renumbering pages
  • - Adding headers and footers
  • - Creating watermarks and backgrounds
  • - Copying content
  • - Editing text
  • - Adding text using the Typewriter tool
  • - Touching up objects
  • - Using Bates numbering
  • - Comparing PDF documents
  • - Setting document properties
  • - Reducing file size
  • - Examining a document
  • - Attaching documents to a PDF

Bookmarks

  • - Understanding bookmarks
  • - Creating bookmarks
  • - Bookmarking specific items
  • - Nesting bookmarks
  • - Editing bookmark destinations
  • - Bookmarking shortcuts
  • - Bookmarking actions

Links

  • - Using links
  • - Creating links
  • - Editing links
  • - Using cross-document linking
  • - Creating destination links
  • - Using link shortcuts

 

 

Working with Forms

  • - Examining a completed form
  • - Starting a form with the Form wizard
  • - Detecting form fields from a PDF
  • - Editing form fields
  • - Creating form fields from scratch
  • - Creating text fields
  • - Using radio buttons
  • - Using checkboxes
  • - Creating multiple fields
  • - Creating a combo box
  • - Creating a text area
  • - Creating a Reset button

Repurposing Content

  • - Exporting images from a PDF
  • - Exporting text from a PDF
  • - Exporting to Word
  • - Exporting to HTML
  • - Batch- processing an export

Adding Security

  • - Showing security properties for a PDF
  • - Enabling Encrypt with Password security
  • - Removing Encrypt with Password security
  • - Managing security policies
  • - Redacting

Collaboration

  • - Viewing comments
  • - Adding sticky notes
  • - Using the Text Edits tool
  • - Using the Stamp tool
  • - Using highlights, underlines, and strikethroughs
  • - Attaching files as comments
  • - Recording an audio comment
  • - Using the drawing tools
  • - Enabling commenting in Reader
  • - Understanding the different review processes
  • - Attaching a PDF for email review
  • - Using the Shared Review feature
  • - Reviewing via Acrobat.com
  • - Using the Collaborate Live feature
  • - Using the Review Tracker
  • - Exporting and importing comments
  • - Reviewing comments
  • - Summarizing comments

PDF Portfolios

  • - Creating a PDF Portfolio
  • - Adding files or folders to a PDF Portfolio
  • - Customizing PDF Portfolio options
  • - Previewing native files in a PDF Portfolio
  • - Searching in a PDF Portfolio
  • - Running commands on a PDF Portfolio
  • - Applying security to a PDF Portfolio
  • - PDF Portfolios and previous versions of Acrobat

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