Adobe Acrobat: Rookie

Prerequisites:

We will assume little or no prior knowledge of Acrobat in this course but you should have a basic working knowledge of either the Windows or Mac interface as well as exposure to either Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint.

Course Description:

Improve the way in which you create, combine, distribute and share Adobe PDFdocuments with this highly acclaimed introduction course. We concentrate on the major areas of Adobe Acrobat – create, combine, edit and secure and a few surprises! Learn the basics of Acrobat and more in just 2 days.

This course is intended for people working or planning to work with the de-facto Adobe PDF format and Adobe Acrobat. This could cover virtually any industry.

On completion of this course, delegates will be able to:

• Generate PDF documents
• Understand different PDF conversion options
• Evaluate integration with Microsoft Office
• Combine PDFs, Extraction of information
• Editing content
• Understand forms features
• Secure PDF files

This course includes the following modules:

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

Acrobat Distiller

• Create low and high quality PDFs
• Impact of resolution and font embedding
• PDF versioning

Generating PDF from Web pages

• Conversion options
• Selection mode
• Output control
• Embedded media settings
• Flash control

Combining PDFs

• Combine PDFs into single file
• Combine PDFs into PDF Portfolio
• Advantages of single files
• Advantages of PDF Portfolio
• PDF Portfolio deep dive

Layout modes

• Appending different media
• Customising Portfolio
• Home, index and list modes
• Upload to Acrobat.com

The Organiser

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

Navigating

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

Editing and repurposing

• Use the touch-up text tool
• Change properties
• RepurposeExport data from insi
• Save out images
• Document wide extraction
• Conversion options

Secure your PDF file

• Different types of Acrobat security
• Security Policies
• Applying security and testing
• Password and permissions restrictions
• Removing security
• Acrobat 8.2.3 security implications

Optimise your PDF file

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

Acrobat.com

• Hosted Adobe service
• Connect as repository
• Product overview
• Creating a user account
• Remote presentations
• Gaining control of users desktop
• Chat and communication pods
• Adobe Buzzword
• File Manager and uploading

Adobe PDF Forms generation

• Generating a simple PDF (Acro) Form
• Discussing Adobe Livecycle Designer
• Examples of Form field recognition
• Understanding form field types
• Recycle fields across documents
• Repeating fields and form logic
• Naming fields and workflow considerations
• Form logic and validation
• Using simplified field notation
• Mandatory form entry and options
• Sending a forms workflow message
• Configure the reset, print and submit buttons
• Personal or workgroup form distribution
• Submitting and saving data with Adobe Reader
• Using the forms tracker
• Adobe Reader Extensions
• Collecting data and analysis
• Filtering and sorting results
• Response file and PDF Portfolio
• Merging older responses into current
• Exporting to CSV and XML