Course Prerequisites

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

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

Course Outline

Unit 1. Introducing Adobe Acrobat 9

• About Adobe PDF
• About Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe PDF on the web
• 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
  
• Using Organizer
  
• Review

Unit 3. Creating Adobe PDF Files

• About 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
• Exploring on your own: Creating Adobe PDF from the context menu (Windows)
• Review

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

• About PDFMaker
• Converting Microsoft Word files to Adobe PDF
• Inserting 3D content into PowerPoint presentations (Acrobat Pro Extended)
• Converting Excel documents and starting a review
• 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
• Review

Unit 5. Combining Files in PDF Portfolios

• About PDF portfolios
• Getting started
• Creating a PDF Portfolio
• Customizing your PDF Portfolio
• Sharing your PDF Portfolio
  
• Securing a PDF Portfolio
  
• Searching a PDF Portfolio
• Review

Unit 6. Reading and Working with PDF Files

• Changing the opening view
• About the onscreen display
• Reading PDF documents
• Searching PDF documents
• Printing PDF documents
• Filling out PDF forms
• About flexibility, accessibility, and structure
• Looking at accessible documents
• Making files flexible and accessible
• Adding tags
• Adding Alt Text (alternate text)
• Using the Acrobat accessibility features
• Review

Unit 7. Enhancing and Editing PDF Documents

• Looking at the work file
• Moving pages with page thumbnails
• Editing Adobe PDF pages
• Editing links
• Inserting one PDF file into another PDF file
• Working with bookmarks
• Deleting a page
• Renumbering pages
• Editing and extracting text and images
• Editing images using the TouchUp Object tool
• Converting PDF pages to image format files
• Review

Unit 8. Adding Signatures and Security

• About digital signatures
• Creating digital signatures
• About security
  
• Looking at security settings
• Adding security to PDF files
• Adding passwords
• Certifying PDF files
• Signing certified documents
• Exploring on your own: Using security envelopes
• Review

Unit 9. Using Acrobat in a Review Cycle

• About the review process
• Adding comments to a PDF document
• About the commenting tools
• Working with comments
• Initiating a shared review
• Exploring on your own: Interactive live collaboration
• Review

Unit 10. Working with Forms in Acrobat

• Converting PDF files to interactive PDF forms
• Adding form fields
• Distributing forms
• Collecting form data
• Working with form data
• Explore on your own: Calculating and validating numeric fields
• Review

Unit 11: Creating Multimedia Presentations

• Adding a video file to a PDF file (Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended)
• Adding a Flash animation (Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended)
• Adding a poster file for a video or animation (Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended)
• Creating a presentation
• Review

Unit 12. Using the Legal Features

• About Bates numbering and redaction
• Applying Bates numbering
• Defining Bates numbering
• Editing Bates numbering
• Applying redaction
• Setting the Redaction tool properties
• Searching text for redaction
• Creating PDF portfolios
  
• Review

Unit 13: Using the Engineering and Technical Features

• Working with layers
• Using the Pan & Zoom tool
• Using the 2D measuring tools
  
• Using the Loupe tool
• Converting a drawing file to PDF (Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended)
  
• Permanently removing text from PDF documents
• Using the PDF Maps feature
• Geospatial registration (Acrobat Pro Extended)
• Review

Unit 14. Using Acrobat in Professional Publishing

• Creating PDF files for print and prepress
• Preflighting files (Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended)
• Working with transparency (Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended)
• Setting up color management
• Previewing your print job
• Advanced printing controls
• Review

Unit 15. Working with 3D in PDF Files

• About Acrobat Pro Extended and Adobe 3D Reviewer (Windows)
• Working with 3D content in PDF files
• Reviewing and commenting on 3D models
• Converting 3D design files to PDF (Acrobat Pro Extended)
• Using 3D PDF files in your manufacturing workflow (Acrobat Pro Extended)
• Using 3D models in technical publishing (Acrobat Pro Extended)
• Review