Acrobat 9 Essentials

This one day course is designed for anyone who will use a computer and Acrobat 9 Standard or Professional to work with PDF files.

Prerequisites

Delegates should be comfortable working with either the Windows or Mac operating systems, and should feel at ease performing tasks such as copy and paste, open and save files, switch between windows, and starting programs.

Software Covered
This course is suitable for users working with Acrobat 9 Professional and Acrobat 9 Professional Extended. If you are using a previous version of Acrobat Professional please contact us as this may be supported.

Course Outline

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

Course Curriculum

Starting with Acrobat

• Examining initial screen
• Menu bar
• Toolbars
• Navigation panes
• Showing and hiding toolbars
• Converting toolbars into a palette
• Adding and removing toolbar tools
• Navigation Panes
• Setting preferences

Working with PDFs

• Navigation
• Navigating through documents – forward and back
• Relative movement
• Specific page navigation
• Zooming
• Check for optional tools
• Marque tool
• Loupe tool
• Hand tool
• Snapshot tool
• Page Layouts
• Searching for text
• Look at advanced features, multiple documents etc.
• Arranging Documents
• Reading mode
• Measuring Sizes and Areas
• PDF Saving Options (EPS, TIFF, JPEG)
• Reduce file size
• Printing

Making PDFs

• From Print Menu
• to Adobe PDF
• or Distiller
• In MS Office
• PDF Maker
• Creating PDF from images
• Merging PDFs
• PDF Packages
• Convert Web Pages To PDF

Adding Comments To A PDF

• Sticky Notes
• Change icons and colour
• Can reply to Notes, change status
• Searching notes
• Checking spelling
• Exporting and importing comments
• Enable Reader commenting
• Stamps
• Text Edits
• Callout comments
• Starting E-Mail based review
• Review Tracker

Manipulating Pages In PDF

• Rearranging pages
• Extracting pages
• Inserting one file into another
• Replacing pages
• Rotating pages
• Cropping pages

Adding And Changing Fonts & Graphics

• Touch Up Tool
• Change line art position, images, rotate, scale and size
• Edit line in Illustrator and images in Photoshop
• Adding Headers and Footers (add copyright and page numbers)
• Adding Background
• Select ‘Form Colour’ for solid background colour
• Adding Watermark

Adding Navigation Features

• Bookmarks
• Create hierarchy
• Special actions
• Links
• Articles

Creating Presentation

• Setting Open Options
• Adding transitions
• Auto Flip
• Creating Next and Previous Page Buttons
• Placing A Movie And Sound On A Page
• Embed compatibility
• Adding borders
• Add buttons to control

Forms

• Add Buttons
• Add Checkboxes
• Add Pull-Down menus
• Add Text Field
• Digital Signatures
• Distribute Forms
• Compile returned Forms