Adobe Acrobat 9 Advanced — A 1-day course

 Open Public Course Closed In-House Course

Synopsis

Take your Acrobat skills to the next level. This course is intended for people already utilising Adobe Acrobat but wishing to accelerate their knowledge especially with collaboration tools.

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Understand the concept of Acrobat Connect
• Optimise their PDFs for the Web
• Combine documents in a Package
• Configure and send PDFs for review remotely
• Create a PDF form and submit
• Electronically sign a PDF file
• Digital Signatures
• Troubleshoot

Intended Audience

This course is intended for people already working with the Adobe PDF format and Adobe Acrobat (or having taken the Introduction course). This could cover virtually any industry.

Prerequisites

We will assume some prior knowledge of Acrobat in this course or will have completed the Acrobat Introduction Training Course. You should have a basic working knowledge of either the Windows or Mac interface as well as exposure to either Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint.

Publicly scheduled dates, locations, and prices

Course Contents

Overview of Acrobat Family

• Understanding the product line-up

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, edit, rotate, cut, paste, edit and re-purpose images
• Integration with Adobe Photoshop
• Integration with Adobe Illustrator

Editing and converting Text

• Amend text, change properties and re-purpose
• Create new text