Adobe Training : Adobe Acrobat 8

This course covers both Adobe Professional and Acrobat Standard for designers, developers, and business users. Where a tool or feature is specific to Acrobat Professional, the information is italicized and called out with an icon in the coursebook. This course is two days in length. This course runs from 8:30 am - 5:30 pm both days.

For information on onsite or private classes call 877-FIG-LEAF or email training@figleaf.com.

To successfully complete this course, you should know how to:

• Use the mouse, standard menus and commands
• How to open, save and close files

Unit 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
• Review

Unit 2. Looking at the Work Area

• Opening a PDF file in the work area
• Working with Acrobat tools and toolbars
• Working with Acrobat task buttons
• Working with the navigation pane Review

Unit 3. Creating Adobe PDF Files

• About creating Adobe PDF files
• Using the Create PDF command
• Converting and combining different types of files
• Using the Print command to create Adobe PDF files
• About the Adobe PDF Settings (presets)
• Comparing the default Adobe PDF Settings
• Reducing file size
• 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

Unit 4. Creating Adobe PDF from Microsoft Office Files (Windows)

• About PDFMaker
• About Acrobat Connect
• Converting Microsoft Word files to Adobe PDF
• Converting and emailing 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

Unit 5. Combining Files in PDF Packages

• 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

Unit 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)

Unit 7. 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

Unit 8. 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

Unit 9. More About Editing

• 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

Unit 10. Using Acrobat in a Review Cycle

• About the review process
• Working with comments
• Exporting and importing comments
• Setting the review status and replying to 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

Unit 11. Adding Signatures and Security

• About digital signatures
• Creating digital signatures
• Adding images to your digital signatures
• Selecting a signing method
• Creating 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

Unit 12. 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

Unit 13. Creating Forms with Adobe LiveCycle Designer (Windows)

• About Adobe LiveCycle Designer
• Getting started
• Looking at the work area
• Understanding objects
• 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

Unit 14. Using Acrobat in Professional Publishing

• 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

Unit 15. Making Documents Accessible and Flexible

• About flexibility
• About accessibility
• About structure
• Looking at accessible documents
• Making files flexible and accessible
• Viewing the results of adding tags

Optional Units as Time Permits

Creating Multimedia Presentations

• Adding interactive animations
• Adding Show/Hide 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

Using the Engineering and Technical Features

• 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