Adobe Acrobat X

Class length: 2 days
Hours: 10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Cost: $900

Acrobat X

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Adobe Acrobat X (Acrobat 10) is an essential tool in today's electronic workfow. You can use Acrobat X Standard, Acrobat X Pro, or Acrobat X Suite to create virtually any document in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), preserving the exact look and content of the original, complete with fonts and graphics. Additionally, Acrobat now provides support for video and native support for Adobe Flash technology, so you can be sure that multimedia components in a PDF will play smoothly.You can unify documents, spreadsheets, presentations, email, rich media, and more into a single, cohesive PDF Portfolio. In fact, you can manipulate the fles in a PDF Portfolio without affecting the PDF Portfolio as a whole-or the original file itself.

You can distribute PDF documents reliably and securely by email or store them on the web, an intranet, a fle system, a CD, or a web service such as Acrobat.com. With shared reviews, you and your colleagues can collaborate easily as you perfect a document. Reviewers can view and comment on your work, regardless of the platform they work on. Acrobat makes it easy to collect and organize data from reviews or from forms.

Acrobat X Pro and Acrobat X Suite offer improved print production controls, for a faster, more reliable print workfow.

Course Outline:

Lesson One: Introducing Adobe Acrobat X

  • About Adobe PDF
  • About Adobe Acrobat
  • Adobe PDF on the web
  • A first look at the work area
  • Viewing PDF presentations in Full Screen mode
  • Viewing PDF files in Read mode
  • Designing documents for online viewing

Lesson Two: Exploring The Work Area

  • Opening a PDF file
  • Working with the toolbars
  • Working with task panes
  • Customizing the Quick Tools toolbar
  • Using keyboard shortcuts to select tools
  • Navigating PDF documents

Lesson Three: Creating Adobe PDF Files

  • About creating Adobe PDF files
  • Using the Create PDF command
  • Dragging and dropping files
  • Converting and combining different types of files
  • Using PDFMaker
  • Using the Print command to create Adobe PDF files
  • Reducing file size
  • About compression and re-sampling
  • Inserting multimedia files
  • Scanning a paper document
  • Making scanned text editable and searchable
  • Converting email messages to PDF (Windows)
  • Converting web pages to Adobe PDF

Lesson Four: Reading and Working With PDF Files

  • Changing the opening view
  • About the onscreen display
  • Reading PDF documents
  • Searching PDF documents
  • Printing PDF documents
  • Filling out PDF forms
  • About flexibility, accessibility, and structure
  • Working with accessible documents
  • Making files flexible and accessible
  • Using the Acrobat accessibility features
  • Sharing PDF files

Lesson Five: Using Acrobat with Microsoft Office Files (Windows only)

  • Getting started
  • About Acrobat PDFMaker
  • Converting Microsoft Word files to Adobe PDF
  • Converting Excel documents and starting a review
  • Converting PowerPoint presentations
  • Converting web pages from Internet Explorer
  • Saving PDF files as Word documents
  • Extracting PDF tables as Excel spreadsheets

Lesson Six: Enhancing and Editing PDF Documents

  • Examining the work file
  • Moving pages with page thumbnails
  • Editing Adobe PDF pages
  • Renumbering pages
  • Editing links
  • Working with bookmarks
  • Adding multimedia files
  • Editing text
  • Copying text and images from a PDF file
  • Setting document properties and metadata

Lesson Seven: Combining Files in PDF Portfolios

  • About PDF Portfolios
  • Creating a PDF Portfolio
  • Customizing your PDF Portfolio
  • Sharing your PDF Portfolio
  • Searching a PDF Portfolio

Lesson Eight: Adding Signatures and Security

  • Viewing documents in Protected Mode (Windows only)
  • About security
  • Viewing security settings
  • Adding security to PDF files
  • About digital signatures
  • Creating digital signatures
  • Signing a document digitally
  • Modifying signed documents
  • Certifying PDF files
  • Signing certified documents
  • Exploring on your own: Using security envelopes

Lesson Nine: Using Acrobat in a Review Cycle

  • About the review process
  • Adding comments to a PDF document
  • Working with comments
  • Initiating a shared review
  • Exploring on your own: Initiating live collaboration

Lesson Ten: Working with Forms in Acrobat

  • Converting PDF files to interactive PDF forms
  • Adding form fields
  • Distributing forms
  • Collecting form data
  • Working with form data
  • Exploring on your own: Calculating and validating numeric fields

Lesson Eleven: Using Actions

  • About actions
  • Using predefined actions
  • Creating an action
  • Sharing actions

Lesson Twelve: Using Acrobat in Professional Printing

  • Creating PDF files for print and prepress
  • Preflighting files (Acrobat Pro)
  • Working with transparency (Acrobat Pro)
  • Setting up color management
  • Previewing your print job (Acrobat Pro)
  • Advanced printing controls