Acrobat Training - Acrobat 9 Essentials

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