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Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional

($699, 2 days)

2005 dates:
October 31–November 1 (class closed)

Since its origins as a “digital carbon copy,” the Portable Document Format has grown into a pivotal role in many industries, from enterprise to engineering to the graphic arts. But a PDF can be much more than a static document: with the addition of navigational aids, sounds, and movies, it can be a compelling publishing and presentation medium.

This two-day class will teach you how to create PDFs from popular applications, and how to modify and enhance PDFs with Acrobat’s extensive tool set.

The course will be taught at Scriptorium Publishing's office in Cary, NC, by Claudia McCue of Practicalia. Claudia is an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) in Acrobat and is a CTT+ Certified Professional.

Syllabus

The syllabus—provided by Claudia McCue—is as follows:

Lesson 1: Introducing Acrobat
  • About Adobe PDF
  • Acrobat Standard and Professional: feature comparison
  • PDF on the World Wide Web
  • Examples
  • Designing documents for online viewing
  • Using Organizer
Lesson 2: The Work Area
  • Using Acrobat tools, toolbars, and task buttons
  • Using the Navigation pane and other tabbed windows
  • Contextual menus
  • About onscreen display
  • Setting up the work area
  • Navigation controls
  • Following links
  • Printing PDFs
  • Using the “How To” pages
  • Online help
  • Using Complete Acrobat 7.0 Help file
Lesson 3: PDFMaker
  • Converting Microsoft Word files to PDF (Windows)
  • Converting and emailing PowerPoint presentations
  • Converting an Excel file and starting a review
  • Converting Web pages from Internet Explorer
  • Exporting tables from PDFs
  • Converting and combining multiple Microsoft Office files
  • Converting Microsoft Word files to PDF
  • Converting and emailing PowerPoint presentations
  • Converting Excel documents (Macintosh)
  • Converting Files to Adobe PDF (Macintosh)
  • Using the Create PDF command
  • Converting and combining different file types
  • Creating PDFs via the Print command
  • Searching PDFs
  • Creating PDFs via dragging and dropping
  • Creating PDFs via contextual menus (Windows only)
Lesson 4: Lesson 5: Creating PDFs from Web pages
  • Setting options
  • Updating converted web pages
Lesson 5: Controlling Output Quality
  • Adobe PDF settings: font, image and color settings
  • Compression and resampling
  • Creating and using custom compression settings
  • Reducing file size
Lesson 6: Modifying PDFs
  • Moving pages with page thumbnails
  • Editing Adobe PDF pages
  • Editing links
  • Inserting PDF files
  • Bookmarks
  • Renumbering pages
  • Adding sound
  • Setting an opening view
Lesson 7: Additional Editing for PDF Files
  • Creating and using Article threads
  • Editing text (and the limits)
  • Copying text and images from a PDF file
  • Editing images with the TouchUp Object tool
  • Converting a PDF page to an image
  • Reducing file size
  • Optimizing for page-at-a-time downloading
Lesson 8: Making documents accessible
  • About accessibility needs and tools
  • About structure
  • Making documents accessible
  • Adding tags and editing reading order
  • Using Acrobat’s built-in accessibility features
Lesson 9: Document Review Cycle
  • Creating, exporting and importing comments
  • Setting review status and replying to comments
  • Summarizing comments
  • Comparing documents
  • Printing files with comments
  • Inviting users of Adobe Reader to participate in reviews
  • Email-based reviews
Lesson 10: Signatures and Security
  • Security preferences
  • Creating a digital ID
  • Signing a PDF file
  • Certifying a PDF file
  • Signing a certified document
  • Using eEnvelopes
Lesson 11: Creating Multimedia Presentations
  • Adding interactive animations
  • Show/Hide field (rollovers)
  • Adding and controlling a movie clip
  • Creating navigational buttons
  • Adding sounds
  • Assigning multiple actions to one button
  • Creating page actions
  • Movies in floating windows
  • Full screen presentations with transitions
Lesson 12 [Optional]: Engineering and technical features
  • Merging documents
  • Enhanced navigational tools for engineering
  • Using layers
  • Using measuring tools
Lesson 13: Creating PDF Forms
  • Converting paper forms to PDF forms
  • Text fields
  • Adding formatting restrictions
  • Check boxes
  • Multi-line text fields
  • Radio buttons
  • Adding Print, Submit, and Reset buttons
  • Combo boxes
  • Duplicating fields
  • Validating text and numeric fields
  • Date formatting
  • Exporting form data
Lesson 14: Professional Publishing
  • Creating Adobe PDF files for print and prepress
  • Preflighting
  • Layers
  • Output preview
  • Advanced printing controls
  • Prepress features
Lesson 15: Creating Forms with LiveCycle Designer (Windows only)
  • Objects and palettes
  • Changing views
  • Adding text and graphics to a form
  • Grouping objects
  • Custom Library items
  • Radio buttons and drop-down lists
  • Creating a Submit button

 

Last modified on October 10, 2005 .