Introduction to Adobe Acrobat for Business Users
Duration: 1 Day
Objectives
To provide office users, marketing personnel, IT staff and others with the skills needed to create PDFs from Microsoft Office Applications for archiving, emailing and electronic distribution who already have some knowledge of Acrobat.
Pre-requisites
A knowledge of the chosen operating system (Mac OSX or Windows) and Microsoft Office.
Course includes
A comprehensive set of reference notes covering course topics, follow-up telephone support and, for training on Transmedia premises, lunch and refreshments.
Course outline
Background - history and uses of the PDF format
- What is PDF?
- What is Acrobat? - Reader v Full Version
Creating PDFs
- From Microsoft Office
- From InDesign, QuarkXPress and Illustrator
- From JPEG, TIFF, PNG and text files
- Generating PDFs from web pages
- Scans and OCR
- Generating PDFs from the clipboard
- Merging PDFs, combining PDFs and converting PDFs
- PDF Portfolios
- Output of PDF to Microsoft Office
Using Acrobat Distiller to Create PDF
- Advantages of the Distiller method
- Distiller settings
The Acrobat Environment
- Task based menu
- Toolbars
- Tabs
- Page Display and Navigation
- Document Properties
- Automation of tasks
Page Manipulation
- Adding, deleting and replacing pages
- Rearranging, extracting and rotating pages
- Headers, Footers and Watermarks
Commenting
- The commenting process
- Commenting toolbar and tools
- Comment management, collating and tracking
- Enabling for Reader
- The Review process
Introduction to Forms
- The Form Wizard
- Creating basic form fields
- Form field attributes
- Collating form data to a spreadsheet
Document security
- Simple password security
- Security policy - Certificates, ID and Signature
- Reduction
Document review
- Sharing and collaborating
- Save and export searches
Accessibility
- Basic tagging and content flow
Enhancing the document
- Bookmarks
- Links to pages, other documents and hyperlinks
- Articles
- Placing Multimedia clips in a PDF document
- Document comparison
Useful Document Know-how
- File size reduction, optimising and usage audit
- Font embedding
- Touch up Text and Touch up Object Tools
Questions and Answers
This course is available as a private or customised course.
Contact us for further information and to customise this course to your exact requirements:
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Exams and Certification
The knowledge gained on this course is a valuable contribution towards passing the Adobe® Acrobat® Pro ACE Exam, allowing a successful candidate to become an Adobe Certfied Expert in Acrobat.
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