Acrobat 9 Fundamentals

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Description:       This course will teach students fundamental concepts and terminology, and the basic features of Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro. Students will learn PDF basics and explore the Acrobat interface. They'll learn how to navigate and organize PDF documents. Students will learn how to create a PDF document from within Acrobat. They will also create PDF documents from within other applications such as word processors or other Adobe Creative Suite applications, and create documents from Web pages. Students will learn to modify PDF content by rearranging, editing, and formatting existing text; and by adding headers, footers, watermarks, and backgrounds. They'll learn how to insert multimedia content, including audio, video, and flash files. They'll add bookmarks and links, and improve accessibility in a document. Students will learn to manage security issues by using password encryption and digital signatures. They'll explore document review techniques, including the use of comments, markups, and automated reviews, such as Page View Sharing and Collaborate Live.

 

Days:                 1

Unit 1: Getting started

Topic A: The Acrobat environment

·         Identifying the benefits of PDF documents

·         Exploring the Acrobat environment

·         Viewing and navigating a PDF document

Topic B: Advanced navigation

·         Navigating with bookmarks

·         Navigating with links

·         Using split view

Topic C: Finding text

·         Finding text by using the Find toolbar

·         Finding text by using the Search PDF window

·         Finding text by using OCR

Topic D: Organizing PDF documents

·         Browsing recent PDF documents

·         Organizing PDF files as a collection

Topic E: Getting help

·         Finding information

·         Topic F: Setting preferences

·         Setting Acrobat application preferences

Unit 2: Creating PDF documents

Topic A: Printing to PDF from any application

·         Creating a PDF file by using the Print command

Topic B: Acrobat PDFMaker

·         Using PDFMaker within Word

Topic C: The Create PDF commands

·         Combining multiple documents in a PDF Portfolio

·         Managing PDF Portfolios

·         Creating a PDF document from a Web page

·         Discussing other Creative Suite applications

Unit 3: Modifying PDF documents

Topic A: Moving document pages

·         Moving pages within a PDF document

·         Moving pages between PDF documents

Topic B: Modifying content

·         Editing PDF document text

·         Formatting PDF document text

·         Inserting headers and footers

·         Inserting a watermark and background

·         Synchronizing page numbering

Topic C: Moving PDF content to other programs

·         Copying a graphic to another program

Topic D: Adding multimedia

·         Adding a video file

Topic E: Optimizing PDF file size

·         Optimizing a PDF file

·         Reducing file size

Unit 4: Document navigation tools

Topic A: Working with bookmarks

·         Testing automatically generated bookmarks

·         Adding a bookmark

·         Adding bookmarks from selected text

·         Modifying bookmark destinations

·         Arranging bookmarks

·         Formatting bookmarks

Topic B: Working with links

·         Creating a link

·         Resizing and aligning links

·         Formatting text to look like a link

·         Creating links from selected text

Unit 5: PDF accessibility

Topic A: Accessible documents

·         Adding tags to a PDF document

·         Checking the accessibility of a PDF document

·         Fixing accessibility problems

·         Modifying a tagged document’s reading order

·         Creating a new tagging structure

Topic B: Accessibility in the Acrobat environment

·         Using the Accessibility Setup Assistant

·         Setting reading preferences

Unit 6: Document security

Topic A: Password protection

·         Setting a Document Open password

·         Setting a Permissions password

·         Changing settings in a permissions-protected file

Topic B: Digital signatures

·         Creating a digital ID

·         Exporting a digital ID certificate file

·         Digitally signing a PDF document

·         Validating a signed document

·         Creating a blank digital signature field

·         Certifying a PDF document

Topic C: Encryption certification and security envelopes

·         Encrypting a PDF file by using a certificate

·         Creating a security envelope

Topic D: Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management ES encryption

·         Discussing Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management ES encryption

Topic E: Password and certificate security policies

·         Creating a password security policy

·         Applying a security policy

Unit 7: Document review techniques

Topic A: Document reviews

·         Discussing automated reviews

Topic B: Reviewer tools

·         Adding notes

·         Specifying the reviewer’s author name

·         Adding drawing markups

·         Adding text markups

·         Adding a stamp

Topic C: Managing comments and markups

·         Exporting comments and markups

·         Importing comments from multiple reviewers

·         Navigating comments from multiple reviewers

·         Creating a comment summary PDF file

Aug 25, 2010



Price: $325
Group Rate: $1,195
(Up to 12)