Acrobat 8 Essentials Course Overview
This one day course is designed for anyone who will use a computer and Acrobat 8 Standard or Professional to work with PDF files.
Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- access information in a PDF document.
- create a PDF document.
- modify a PDF document.
- add PDF navigation aids.
- work with multiple PDF documents.
- review PDF documents.
Course Curriculum
Starting with Acrobat
- Examining initial screen
- Menu bar
- Toolbars
- Navigation panes
- Showing and hiding toolbars
- Converting toolbars into a palette
- Adding and removing toolbar tools
- Navigation Panes
- Setting preferences
Working with PDFs
- Navigation
- Navigating through documents – forward and back
- Relative movement
- Specific page navigation
- Zooming
- Check for optional tools
- Marque tool
- Loupe tool
- Hand tool
- Snapshot tool
- Page Layouts
- Searching for text
- Look at advanced features, multiple documents etc.
- Arranging Documents
- Reading mode
- Measuring Sizes and Areas
- PDF Saving Options (EPS, TIFF, JPEG)
- Reduce file size
- Printing
Making PDFs
- From Print Menu
- to Adobe PDF
- or Distiller
- In MS Office
- PDF Maker
- Creating PDF from images
- Merging PDFs
- PDF Packages
- Convert Web Pages To PDF
Adding Comments To A PDF
- Sticky Notes
- Change icons and colour
- Can reply to Notes, change status
- Searching notes
- Checking spelling
- Exporting and importing comments
- Enable Reader commenting
- Stamps
- Text Edits
- Callout comments
- Starting E-Mail based review
- Review Tracker
Manipulating Pages In PDF
- Rearranging pages
- Extracting pages
- Inserting one file into another
- Replacing pages
- Rotating pages
- Cropping pages
Adding And Changing Fonts & Graphics
- Touch Up Tool
- Change line art position, images, rotate, scale and size
- Edit line in Illustrator and images in Photoshop
- Adding Headers and Footers (add copyright and page numbers)
- Adding Background
- Select ‘Form Colour’ for solid background colour
- Adding Watermark
Adding Navigation Features
- Bookmarks
- Create hierarchy
- Special actions
- Links
- Articles
Creating Presentation
- Setting Open Options
- Adding transitions
- Auto Flip
- Creating Next and Previous Page Buttons
- Placing A Movie And Sound On A Page
- Embed compatibility
- Adding borders
- Add buttons to control
Forms
- Add Buttons
- Add Checkboxes
- Add Pull-Down menus
- Add Text Field
- Digital Signatures
- Distribute Forms
- Compile returned Forms