Adobe Acrobat 9 Introduction — A 1-day course

 Open Public Course Closed In-House Course

Synopsis

Improve the way in which you create, combine, distribute and share Adobe PDF documents with this highly acclaimed introduction course. We concentrate on the major areas of Adobe Acrobat 9 - create, combine, edit and secure and a few surprises!

Course materials are provided. This includes pen, note pad and a training manual as well as lunch and refreshments. Our goal is to make sure your class meets your objectives, not ours. Therefore, all of our outlines are treated as guides to help steer the workshop. We may change or alter course topics to best suit the classroom situation. A certificate will be given on completion of the course and you may also have the opportunity to sit for an accredited exam. Courses may also be customized to fit your exact requirements.

Course Objectives

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

• Generate PDF documents
• Understand different PDF conversion options
• Evaluate integration with Microsoft Office
• Combine PDFs
• Extration of information
• Editing content
• Understand forms features
• Secure PDF files

Intended Audience

This Acrobat Training Course is excellent for beginners and those who are new to Acrobat software.

This course is intended for people working or planning to work with the de-facto Adobe PDF format and Adobe Acrobat. This could cover virtually any industry.

Prerequisites

We will assume little or no prior knowledge of Acrobat in this course but 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

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 headers 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