Training Course: Adobe Acrobat 8 - MasterClass 2 day

Training Course Summary:

Improve the way in which you create, combine, distribute and share Adobe PDF documents with this highly acclaimed introduction course. Scoring the highest marks out of all our Adobe courses, we highly recommend taking this one day Introduction course .

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.

Pre-Requisites:

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

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:

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

Impact of resolution and font embedding

PDF versioning
Generating PDF from Web pages
Conversion options

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
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
Editing and converting Text
Amend text, change properties and re-purpose

Create new text