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acrobat training sydney logo Acrobat X Training: $595

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.
Training Course Benefits

Adobe Acrobat X Training Course Outline

Acrobat's Interface

  • About Adobe PDF & Adobe Acrobat
  • Adobe PDF on the web
  • First glance at the work area
  • Viewing PDF presentations in Full Screen mode
  • Designing documents for online viewing
  • Getting help

Looking at the Work Area

  • Opening PDF files
  • Working with Acrobat tools and toolbars
  • Working with Acrobat task buttons
  • Working with the navigation panel
  • Using Organizer

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)
  • Converting web pages to Adobe PDF
  • Creating Adobe PDF from the context menu (Windows)
  • Review questions and answers

Adobe PDF from Microsoft Office files

  • PDFMaker
  • Converting Microsoft Word files to Adobe PDF
  • Inserting 3D content into PowerPoint presentations
  • Converting Excel documents and starting a review
  • Exporting tables from PDF files
  • Converting and combining multiple Office files

Combining Files in PDF  Portfolios

  • Creating a PDF Portfolio
  • Customising 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
  • Reading PDF documents
  • Searching PDF documents
  • Filling out PDF forms
  • Looking at accessible documents
  • Making files flexible and accessible
  • Adding tags

Reading and Working with PDF Files (cont)

  • Adding Alt Text (alternate text)
  • Using the Acrobat accessibility features
  • Using Find & Search

Enhancing and Editing PDF Documents

  • Moving pages with page thumbnails
  • Editing Adobe PDF pages
  • Working with bookmarks
  • Re-numbering 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

  • Creating digital signatures
  • Looking at security settings
  • Adding security to PDF files
  • Adding passwords

Using Acrobat in a Review Cycle

  • About the review process
  • Adding comments to a PDF document
  • Working with comments
  • Adding Sticky Notes
  • Using the Text Edits and Stamp tools
  • Using the highlights and strikethroughs
  • Using the drawing tools

Repurposing Content

  • Exporting images and text from a PDF
  • Exporting to Word

Working with Forms in Acrobat

  • Converting PDF files to interactive PDF forms
  • Using the Form wizard
  • Adding form fields
  • Creating text fields, radio buttons and checkboxes
  • Creating a reset button
  • Distributing forms
  • Collecting form data
  • Working with form data
  • Calculating and validating numeric fields

Creating Multimedia Presentations

  • Adding a video file to a PDF file
  • Adding a Flash animation
  • Creating a presentation

Using the legal features

  • Applying redaction
  • Changing the Documents preferences
  • Setting the Redaction tool properties
  • Searching text for redaction
SYDNEY January February March April May June
Acrobat X Essentials 12 13 19 — 3 7

 

MELBOURNE January February March April May June
Acrobat Essentials — 10 23 — 7 25

 

BRISBANE January February March April May June
Acrobat Essentials — — 5 — 30 —