Improve the way in which you create, combine, distribute and share Adobe PDF documents with this highly acclaimed introduction course.

Overview of Acrobat Family

Understanding the product line-up

• Create PDF from Microsoft Office
  
• Generate PDFs from Microsoft Office
  
• The PDF Maker
  
• Embedding bookmarks, TOC, links
  
• Document repurposing
  
• Powerpoint to PDF presentations
  
• HTML pages to PDF
  
• Archiving with Microsoft Outlook

Acrobat Distiller the creation engine

• Create low and high quality PDFs
  
• Impact of resolution and font embedding
  
• PDF versioning

Generating PDF from Web pages

• Conversion options
  
• Output control
  
• Embedded media settings
  
• Flash control

Combine into PDF or package

• Combine PDFs into single file
  
• Combine PDFs into PDF Package
  
• Advantages of single files
  
• Advantages of PDF packages

Creating PDF from image formats

• Direct conversion from explorer
  
• Conversion options and file formats
  
• Considerations
  
• Image compression factors

The Organiser for your documents

• Explore the organiser
  
• Favourite places
  
• Exploring metadata
  
• Network places
  
• Previewing content

Headers/footers and watermarks

• Add heders and footers
  
• Edit headers and footers
  
• Transparency effects
  
• Remove content

Navigating from within Acrobat

• New customised toolbars
  
• Reset workspace
  
• Navigating views and pages
  
• Keyboard shortcuts

Forms Introduction

• Forms basics
  
• Auto forms recognition
  
• Adding submit button

Editing and converting Text

• Use the touch-up text tool to amend text
  
• Change properties
  
• Repurpose

Export data from inside a PDF

• Save out text
  
• Save out images
  
• Document wide extraction
  
• Conversion options

Optimise your PDF file

• Check for file content
  
• Reduce image size and compression
  
• Edit font embedding and remove metadata
  
• Flatten forms fields, remove comments

RedAct your files - quickly

• Remore both text and image content
  
• Permanent removal through manual or search criteria
  
• Applying RedAction codes
  
• Considerations

Secure your PDF file

• Different types of Acrobat security
  
• Security Policies
  
• Applying security and testing
  
• Removing security

Minimal experience with computers and common office applications, such as word processing, spreadsheet, and web browser applications.

This course is designed for anyone who will use a computer and Acrobat 8 Standard or Professional to work with PDF files.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• access information in a PDF document.
• create PDF documents.
• modify PDF documents.
• add PDF navigation aids.
• work with multiple PDF documents.
• review PDF documents.

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