Training Course: Abode Acrobat 8 Introduction

Training Course Summary:

You have used a variety of different programs to create documents and files for your own use. However, you are required to share your files electronically by email frequently, over a network, and on the web, so that recipients can view, print, and offer feedback. In this course, you will use Adobe Acrobat 8 to make your information more portable, accessible, and useful to meet the needs of your target audience.

Pre-Requisites:

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

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.
review PDF documents.

Who Should Attend:

This course is designed for anyone who will use a computer and Acrobat 8 Standard or Professional to work with PDF files.

Training Course Overview/Content:

Overview of Acrobat Family
Understanding the product line-up
Create PDF from Microsoft Office
Discover the differences between the PRINT and PDF MAKER commands within the Microsoft Office Suite. Discover automatic embedding of links, bookmarks, comment, attachments and document metadata. Microsoft Outlook (and Lotus Notes if on system) archiving features with Adobe PDF
Acrobat Distiller the creation engine
Configure the PDF engine to generate both high and low quality PDFs for distribution or print
Generating PDF from Web pages
Discover ways of converting your web pages into an Adobe PDF file which can even be searched
Combine into PDF or package
Combine PDFs from multiple sources into one polished PDF file for easy distribution and integrity
Creating PDF from image formats
Generating PDFs from JPEG, TIFF, PNG and text files - the easy way without any hiddle hassle
The Organiser for your documents
Examine the all-new Organiser which will change the way you work with PDF documents forever
Headers/footers and watermarks
Acrobat for the first time to append / remove and even document data
Navigating from within Acrobat
Change page and magnification views
Forms Introduction
Discover how to automatically convert to an intelligent PDF form with auto form detection
Editing Objects inside Acrobat
Use the touch-up tool to place, edit, rotate, cut, paste, edit and re-purpose images. Extra functionality with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator
Editing and converting Text
Use the touch-up text tool to amend text, change properties and re-purpose
Export data from inside a PDF
Save out text and images either individually or document-wide
Optimise your PDF file
Re-save PDFs from version control, file size reduction, font embedding and scrubbing documents
RedAct your files - quickly
Learn how to completely remove reference to any data inside your PDF for publishing with confidence
Secure your PDF file
Manage new security policies with passwords and learn to lock-down a PDF file for true security