Introduction to Adobe Acrobat
This course provides document authors, technical support staff and others with the skills needed of the many and varied uses of PDF files and Acrobat. Please note that the course topics below are for Acrobat Professional and will be reduced for the Standard or Elements versions.
Overview of Acrobat Family
- What is PDF?
- What is Acrobat? Adobe Reader vs Acrobat Pro
Creating PDFs
- From MS 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 PDFs to MS Office
Using Acrobat Distiller to create PDFs
- Advantages of the Distiller method
- Identifying Distiller settings for high and low resolution PDFs
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 and footers
Commenting
- The commenting process
- Commenting toolbar and tools
- Comment management, collating and tracking
- Enabling for Reader
- The Review process
Advanced Editing
- Cropping pages
- Touch up Text and Touch up Object Tools
- Font management issues
- Placing Multimedia clips in a PDF
- Bookmarks
- Links to pages, other documents and hyperlinks
- Articles
Introduction to Forms
- The Form Wizard
- Creating basic form fields
- Form field attributes
- Collating form data to a spreadsheet
Optimising PDFs
- Re-saving PDFs from version control
- File size reduction
- Font embedding
Document production
- Optimising and Usage Audit
- Print production - pre-flighting and colour
- Batch processing
- Document comparison
Document security
- Simple password security
- Security policy - Certificates, ID and Signature
- Redaction
Accessibility
- Basic tagging and content flow
- Search and export results
Questions and Answers
Dates
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Friday 25 to Friday 25 May 2018
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Wednesday 30 to Wednesday 30 May 2018
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Monday 11 to Monday 11 June 2018
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Wednesday 18 to Wednesday 18 July 2018
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Friday 20 to Friday 20 July 2018
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Monday 20 to Monday 20 August 2018
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Wednesday 22 to Wednesday 22 August 2018
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Friday 21 to Friday 21 September 2018
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Monday 22 to Monday 22 October 2018
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Wednesday 21 to Wednesday 21 November 2018
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