Adobe Acrobat Jumpstart

Prerequisites:

Minimal experience with computers and common office applications, such as word processing, spreadsheet, and web browser applications.

Course Description:

This course is designed for anyone who will use a computer and Acrobat 8 Standard or Professional to work with PDF files. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to; access information in a PDF document, create PDF documents, modify PDF documents, add PDF navigation aids, work with multiple PDF documents and review PDF documents.

This course includes the following modules:

Understanding the Product Line-up

• Create PDF from Microsoft Office
• Generate PDFs from Microsoft Office
• The PDF Maker
• Embedding bookmarks, TOC, links
• Document repurposing
• Powerpoint to PDF presentations
• HTML pages to PDF
• Archiving with Microsoft Outlook

Acrobat Distiller the Creation Engine

• Create low and high quality PDFs
• PDF versioning

Generating PDF from Web Pages

• Output control
• Embedded media settings
• Flash control

Combine into PDF or Package

• Combine PDFs into single file
• Combine PDFs into PDF Package
• Advantages of single files
• Advantages of PDF packages

Creating PDF from Image Formats

• Direct conversion from explorer
• Conversion options and file formats
• Considerations
• Image compression factors

The Organiser for Your Documents

• Explore the organiser
• Favourite places
• Exploring metadata
• Network places
• Previewing content

Headers/footers and Watermarks

• Add heders and footers
• Edit headers and footers
• Transparency effects
• Remove content

Navigating from Within Acrobat

• New customised toolbars
• Reset workspace
• Navigating views and pages
• Keyboard shortcuts

Forms Introduction

• Forms basics
• Auto forms recognition
• Adding submit button

Editing and Converting Text

• Use the touch-up text tool to amend text
• Change properties
• Repurpose
• Amend text, change properties and re-purpose
• Create new text

Export data from inside a PDF

• Save out text
• Save out images
• Document wide extraction
• Conversion options

Optimise your PDF file

• Check for file content
• Reduce image size and compression
• Edit font embedding and remove metadata
• Flatten forms fields, remove comments

RedAct your Files - Quickly

• Remore both text and image content
• Permanent removal through manual or search criteria
• Applying RedAction codes
• Considerations

Secure your PDF File

• Different types of Acrobat security
• Security Policies
• Applying security and testing
• Removing security

Removing Security

• Adobe Acrobat Connect
• Product overview
• Creating a user account
• Remote presentations
• Gaining control of users desktop
• White board tools
• Chat and communication pods

Enhancing Metadata Control for the Web

• Acrobat metadata
• Editing course file metadata
• Web considerations
• PDF versioning with search engines

Combining Documents

• Conversion options for native documents
• Recycle content
• Differents between multi-page and PDF Packages
• PDF versioning

Send for Review On-line Workflow

• Deploy external location for comments
• Network topologies
• Sending a shared review invite
• Connecting to shared server
• Adding and manipulating comments
• Shared Tracker Review
• Synchronisation outside of Acrobat

Forms Workflow with the Free Adobe Reader

• Generating a simple PDF (Acro) Form
• Adding a submit button
• Examples of Form recognition
• Sending a forms workflow message
• Submitting and saving data with Adobe Reader
• Collecting data and analysis

Digital Signatures

• Creating a password drive digital signature
• Creating a signature appearance
• Siging and document - visibly and invisible
• Examples of third party solutions
• Exchanging digital signatures
• Creating trusted identities
• Applying security policies with trusted identities

Acrobat Plugins

• Exploring how plugins work
• Enabling and disabling
• Plugin framwork

Editing Objects Inside Acrobat

• Place images
• Scale and rotate
• Crop and flip
• Cut, paste and move
• Colour convert objects
• Integration with Adobe Photoshop
• Integration with Adobe Illustrator