ACR8FT - Adobe Acrobat 8.0: Fast Track
You have used a variety of different programs to create documents and files for your own use. However, you are required to share your files electronically by email frequently, over a network, and on the web, so that recipients can view, print, and offer feedback. In this course, you will use Adobe Acrobat 8® to make your information more portable, accessible, and useful to meet the needs of your target audience.
As a workplace professional with some experience in using Adobe Acrobat, you are now ready to further develop your PDF documents. In this course, you will use Adobe Acrobat® 8.0 Professional to convert technical documents to PDF files, enhance and control PDF content accessibility, customize PDF documents for interactive use online, and prepare PDFs for commercial printing.
Introducing Adobe Acrobat
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
Using Organizer
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
Creating Adobe PDF Files
About creating Adobe PDF files
Using the Create PDF command
Converting and combining different types of files
Using the Print command to create Adobe PDF files
About the Adobe PDF Settings (presets)
Comparing the default Adobe PDF Settings
Reducing file size
About compression and resampling
Creating Adobe PDF from Microsoft Office Files (Windows)
About PDFMaker
About Acrobat Connect
Converting Microsoft Word files to Adobe PDF
Converting and emailing PowerPoint presentations
Converting Excel documents and starting a review
Converting and attaching files in Microsoft Outlook
Converting web pages from Internet Explorer
Combining Files in PDF Packages
About PDF packages
Collecting PDF files in a package
Navigating your PDF package
Making changes to PDF packages
Sorting PDF files in PDF packages
Searching PDF packages
Printing PDF packages
Creating Adobe PDF from Web Pages
Converting web pages to Adobe PDF
Connecting to the web
Setting options for converting web pages
Creating Adobe PDF files from web pages
Updating converted web pages
Converting web pages in Internet Explorer (Windows)
Converting Email Files to Adobe PDF (Windows)
Converting email messages to Adobe PDF
Sorting converted emails
Adding email messages to PDF Packages
Printing emails
Migrating PDF archives to PDF packages (Outlook)
Setting up automatic archiving in Outlook
Working with PDF Files
Changing the opening view
About the onscreen display
Reading PDF documents
Following links
Searching PDF documents
Printing PDF documents
Filling out PDF forms
Comparing documents
Using the Acrobat accessibility features
Editing PDF Documents
Opening and examining the work file
Moving pages with page thumbnails
Editing Adobe PDF pages
Editing links
Inserting one PDF file into another PDF file
Looking at bookmarks
Deleting a page
Renumbering pages
Setting an opening view
More About Editing
Viewing the work file
Looking at articles
Editing text
Copying text and images from a PDF file
Editing images using the TouchUp Object tool
Converting PDF pages to image format files
Reducing the file size
Exploring on your own: Optimizing for page-at-a-time downloading
Using Acrobat in a Review Cycle
About the review process
Opening the work file
Working with comments
Exporting and importing comments
Setting the review status and replying to comments
Marking up documents
Summarizing comments
Comparing two Adobe PDF documents
Spell checking comments
Printing documents with comments
Inviting users of Adobe Reader to participate in reviews
Adding Signatures and Security
About digital signatures
Creating digital signatures
Adding images to your digital signatures
Selecting a signing method
Opening the work file
Creating digital IDs
Signing the advertisement
Modifying signed documents
About security
Looking at security settings
Adding security to PDF files
Adding passwords
Opening password-protected files
Certifying PDF files
Signing certified documents
Creating Multimedia Presentations
Adding interactive animations
Adding Show/Hide fields
Controlling movie clips with buttons
Adding navigational buttons
Adding sound files and adding multiple actions to one button
Creating page actions to control multimedia clips
Opening movie clips in floating windows
Creating full screen presentations with transitions
Using the Engineering and Technical Features
Merging documents
Using the Pan & Zoom tool
Working with layers
Using measuring tools
Using the Loupe tool
Exporting measurements to spreadsheets
Using the Cloud Annotation tool
Preparing engineering documents for distribution
Permanently removing text from PDF documents
Using the Legal Features
About Bates numbering and redaction
Applying Bates numbering
Defining Bates numbering
Finding Bates numbered PDF documents
Editing Bates numbering
Applying redaction
Setting the Redaction tool properties
Searching text for redaction
Creating PDF packages
Applying security
Working with Forms in Acrobat
Converting paper forms to interactive PDF forms
Adding text fields
Adding check boxes and buttons
Distributing forms
Tracking and managing forms
Exploring on your own: Calculating and validating numeric fields
Creating Forms with Adobe LiveCycle Designer (Windows)
About Adobe LiveCycle Designer
Looking at the work area
Understanding objects
Building new forms
Adding text to a form
Adding graphics to forms
Adding text banners
Grouping objects
Adding content form fields
Adding radio buttons
Duplicating objects
Adding check boxes
Using Custom Library items
Adding shapes
Adding drop-down lists
Adding the current date
Previewing and exporting forms
Distributing forms
Using Acrobat in Professional Publishing
Creating PDF files for print and prepress
Preflighting files
Creating custom preflight profiles
Printing and layers
Previewing your print job
Working with transparency
Advanced printing controls
Setting up color management
Exploring on your own: The Acrobat prepress features
Making Documents Accessible and Flexible
About flexibility
About accessibility
About structure
Looking at accessible documents
Making files flexible and accessible
Viewing the results of adding tags