Acrobat 9

Description:

Adobe Acrobat 9 is an essential tool in today's electronic workfow. You can use Acrobat Standard, Acrobat Pro, or Acrobat Pro Extended 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 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 Pro and Acrobat Pro Extended offer improved print production controls, for a faster, more reliable print workfow. And some features that were previously found only in Acrobat Pro are now available in Acrobat Standard. For example, you can use any version of Acrobat 9 to create interactive forms and enable users of the free downloadable Adobe Reader® 9 software to save the completed form.

Course Outline:

Lesson One: Introducing Adobe Acrobat 9

• Get acquainted with the Adobe PDF document format and Acrobat 9

• Take a first look at the Acrobat work area

• View examples of PDF documents designed for printing and for viewing online

• Examine some formatting and design decisions you need to make when creating an electronic publication

• View a PDF in Full Screen mode

• Learn to use Adobe Acrobat 9 Help

Lesson Two: Looking at the Work Area

• Customize the display and arrangement of the Acrobat toolbars and tools

• Add hidden tools to toolbars

• Use the navigation pane to jump directly to specifc pages in an open document

• Change the view of a document in the document pane

• Explore Organizer, an Acrobat feature designed to help you manage your files

Lesson Three: Creating Adobe PDF Files

• Convert a TIFF file to Adobe PDF using the Create PDF command

• Convert a file to Adobe PDF using the authoring application’s Print command

• Convert email messages to Adobe PDF

• Convert web pages to Adobe PDF from Acrobat and directly from Internet Explorer (Windows)

• Convert multimedia fles to Adobe PDF files

• Explore the Adobe PDF settings used to convert files to Adobe PDF

• Reduce the size of a PDF file

Lesson Four: Creating Adobe PDF from Microsoft Office Files (Windows)

• Convert a Microsoft Word file to Adobe PDF

• Convert Word headings and styles to PDF bookmarks and Word comments to PDF notes

• Change the Adobe PDF conversion settings

• Insert a 3D model into a PowerPoint file

• Convert a Microsoft Excel file and send it for review

Lesson Five: Combining Files in PDF Portfolios

• Quickly and easily combine files of different types into one PDF Portfolio

• Customize the look and feel of a PDF Portfolio

• Add a header to a PDF Portfolio (Acrobat 9 Pro and Pro Extended only)

• Add a welcome screen to a PDF Portfolio (Acrobat 9 Pro and Pro Extended only)

• Share a PDF Portfolio

• Search a PDF Portfolio

• Modify an existing PDF Portfolio

• Secure a PDF Portfolio

• Combine files into a single PDF file without creating a PDF Portfolio

Lesson Six: Reading and Working with PDF Files

• Navigate through an Adobe PDF document using Acrobat’s built-in navigational controls

• Change how an Adobe PDF document scrolls and displays in the document window

• Search a PDF document for a word or phrase

• Fill out a PDF form

• Print all or a portion of a PDF document

• Examine the accessibility features that make it easier for users with vision and motor impairments to use Acrobat

Lesson Seven: Enhancing and Editing PDF Documents

• Use page thumbnails to rearrange pages in a document and navigate through a document

• Rotate, crop, and delete pages

• Insert pages into a document

• Work with links and bookmarks

• Renumber pages in a document

• Copy text from a document

• Copy images from a document

• Create an image file from a PDF file

Lesson Eight: Adding Signatures and Security

• Create a digital ID that uses an image

• Digitally sign documents

• Apply password protection to a fle to restrict who can open it, and apply a password to limit printing and changing of the file

• Certify a document

Lesson Nine: Using Acrobat in a Review Cycle

• Discover multiple ways to use Acrobat in a document review process

• Annotate a PDF file with the Acrobat commenting and markup tools

• View, reply to, summarize, and print document comments

• Initiate a shared review

• Initiate live collaboration

• Learn how to host an online meeting with Adobe ConnectNow

Lesson Ten: Working with Forms in Acrobat

• Create an interactive PDF form

• Add form felds, including text, radio buttons, and action buttons

• Distribute a form

• Track a form to determine its status

• Learn how to collect and compile form data

• Validate and calculate form data

Lesson Eleven: Creating Multimedia Presentations

• Add videos and Flash animations to PDF files

• Learn how to add sounds to PDF documents

• Set playback options for videos and Flash animations

• Use an image file as a poster for a video or Flash animation

• Control transitions and presentation timing using Full Screen mode

• Learn about adding widgets to your PDF fles

Lesson Twelve: Using the Legal Features

• Apply Bates numbering to a document

• Apply redaction to eliminate privileged information prior to submitting documents in response to a discovery motion

• Lesson Thirteen: Using the Engineering and Technical Features

• Show, hide, and print layers created in an AutoCAD drawing

• Work with the Acrobat measuring tools

• Create a PDF file from a .dwg file

• Look at the PDF mapping feature and Geospatial tools

Lesson Fourteen: Using Acrobat in Professional Printing

• Create Adobe PDF files suitable for high-resolution printing
• Preflight an Adobe PDF file to check for quality and consistency
• View how transparent objects affect a page
• Configure color management
• Use Acrobat to generate color separations

Lesson Fifteen: Working with 3D in PDF Files

• Explore the Acrobat 3D toolbar
• Manipulate a 3D model
• Explore the Model Tree
• Convert a 3D design file to 3D PDF and explore the different conversion settings for creating 3D PDF files
• View product manufacturing information associated with a 3D model
• Export dimensioning and tolerancing information