Acrobat Training | Los Angeles & Chicago
Fast Facts
2 days
Max 8 students
9.00am to 4.30pm
One per student
Included
895.00
Acrobat 9 Fundamentals
Course Description
Acrobat 9 Fundamentals is a 2 day Adobe Certified course suitable for both Adobe Professional and Acrobat Standard users. Adobe Acrobat 9 software enables business professionals to reliably create, combine, and control Adobe PDF documents for easy, more secure distribution, collaboration, and data collection. The course will teach you Acrobat basics such as creating and editing PDF documents, through to some of the more advanced features, such as the collaboration tools, and forms. More about Adobe Acrobat training.
Target Audience
Regardless of your industry, everyone can benefit from this informative and exciting class. Individuals who prepare documents for intranet or internet use will find lots of useful tips to get the most out of Acrobat 9. New features will be discussed and hands-on exercises will give you the ability to see the many features of Acrobat 9 Professional in action.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this Acrobat training course students will be able to:
- Understand the Acrobat interface
- To build PDF documents
- Convert different file formats into PDF's
- Create PDF portfolios
- Enhance and edit PDF's
- Add signatures and security
- Collaborate with others using comments and markups
- Create forms in Acrobat
- Prepare PDF's for print
Upcoming Classes
Chicago |
Mar, 2010 | Apr, 2010 | May, 2010 | Jun, 2010 |
| Acrobat 9 Fundamentals | Mar 29 - 30 | May 13 - 14 |
Los Angeles |
Mar, 2010 | Apr, 2010 | May, 2010 | Jun, 2010 |
| Acrobat 9 Fundamentals | Mar 29 - 30 ! | May 3 - 4 | Jun 24 - 25 |
* Class almost full ! Class guaranteed to run † Class is full
Course Outline
Introducing Adobe Acrobat 9
- 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
- Designing documents for online viewing
- Getting help
Looking at the Work Area
- Opening a PDF file in the work area
- Working with Acrobat tools and toolbars
- Working with Acrobat task buttons
- Working with the navigation pane
- Using Organizer
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 the Print command to create Adobe PDF files
- About the Adobe PDF Settings (presets)
- Reducing file size
- About compression and resampling
- Inserting multimedia files
- Scanning a paper document
- Converting emails to PDF (Windows)
- Converting web pages to Adobe PDF
- Exploring on your own: Creating Adobe PDF from the context menu (Windows)
Creating Adobe PDF from Microsoft Office Files (Windows)
- About PDFMaker
- Converting Microsoft Word files to Adobe PDF
- Converting Excel documents and starting a review
- Converting web pages from Internet Explorer
- Exploring on your own: Exporting tables from PDF files
- Exploring on your own: Converting and combining multiple Office files
Combining Files in PDF Portfolios
- About PDF Portfolios
- Getting started
- Creating a PDF Portfolio
- Customizing your PDF Portfolio
- Sharing your PDF Portfolio
- Securing a PDF Portfolio
- Searching a PDF Portfolio
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
- Looking at accessible documents
- Making files flexible and accessible
- Adding tags
- Adding Alt Text (alternate text)
- Using the Acrobat accessibility features
Enhancing and Editing PDF Documents
- Looking at the work file
- Moving pages with page thumbnails
- Editing Adobe PDF pages
- Editing links
- Inserting one PDF file into another PDF file
- Working with bookmarks
- Deleting a page
- Renumbering pages
- Editing and extracting text and images
- Editing images using the TouchUp Object tool
- Converting PDF pages to image format files
Adding Signatures and Security
- About digital signatures
- Creating digital signatures
- About security
- Looking at security settings
- Adding security to PDF files
- Adding passwords
- Certifying PDF files
- Signing certified documents
- Exploring on your own: Using security envelopes
Using Acrobat in a Review Cycle
- About the review process
- Adding comments to a PDF document
- About the commenting tools
- Working with comments
- Initiating a shared review
- Exploring on your own: Initiating live collaboration
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
Creating Multimedia Presentations
- Adding a video file to a PDF file (Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended)
- Adding a Flash animation (Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended)
- Assigning a poster file for a video or animation (Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended)
- Creating a presentation
Creating PDF files for print and prepress
- Preflighting files (Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended)
- Working with transparency (Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended)
- Setting up color management
- Previewing your print job
- Advanced printing controls
Meet the Instructors
Eva
Eva is a certified Adobe instructor and holds a CompTIA CTT certification which recognizes excellence in instruction.
Eva has more than 15 years graphic design experience. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art (major in illustration) and a Masters in Fine Art (major in painting and printmaking).
Eva is an exceptional and passionate trainer, and consistently achieves 100% top marks on her evaluations.
