Adobe Acrobat 8

Overview:

Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional software enables business, creative and engineering professionals who work with graphically complex documents to improve the reliability and efficiency of business-critical document exchange.

Description:

Who Should Attend:
Across any industry, everyone can benefit from this informative hands-on training. Individuals who will be preparing forms for intranet or internet use will learn many useful tips to get the most from Acrobat.
   
Prerequisites:
We require students to be familiar with using a mouse, file management and general operations of a Macintosh or Windows operating system.    
    
Course Outline:  
   
LESSON 1
Introducing Adobe Acrobat
About Acrobat components
Using Acrobat tools
Using Acrobat palettes
About on-screen display
Navigating a document

LESSON 2
Creating PDFs from Authoring Applications
PDFWriter vs. Acrobat Distiller: how to
Creating a PDF with PDFWriter
Creating a PDF with Acrobat Distiller
 Creating multiple PDFs
Viewing and comparing PDFs

LESSON 3
Creating Navigational Structures
Using bookmarks
Using thumbnails
Creating a cross-document link
Replacing a page
Using articles
Linking to a web address
Changing the opening display of a PDF

LESSON 4
Modifying & Repurposing PDF Documents
Editing pages
Cropping pages
Replacing, inserting, and deleting pages
Rearranging pages in a PDF
Editing text and images
Adding headers & footers
Reusing PDF content: text, tables & images Paper capture
Snapshots & Watermarks LESSON 5
Using Acrobat in a Document Review Cycle
Working with annotation tools
Adding stamps
Using graphic markup tools
Summarizing annotations
Importing/exporting annotations
Setting file security
Setting up User Profiles
Creating & using digital signatures

LESSON 6
Creating Forms
Filling out forms
Adding form fields
Checkboxes, radio buttons, pop-up fields
Form field calculations
Creating a Reset button
Submitting forms over the Web
Using and adding buttons
Using the Show/Hide Field actions
Using custom calculation scripts
Adding Buttons

LESSON 7
Creating PDFs from the Web
Establishing appropriate settings
Converting a Web page to PDF

LESSON 8
Customizing PDF Output Quality & Automation
About compression and resampling
Default compression settings
Custom compression settings
Batch actions
Building indexes & searching

LESSON 9
Multimedia & Presentation PDFs
Using page actions
Using movies in PDF files
Using sounds in a document