Course Outline

Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Professional: Advanced

Days: 1

Prerequisites: Basic Windows skills, plus Acrobat Introduction or equivalent experience.

Course Description:

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 (creating forms/ form fields), and prepare PDFs for commercial printing.

Course Content:

Unit 1: Creating PDFs from Technical Documents

· Create PDF Documents Using Microsoft Visio

· Measure Technical Drawing Content

Unit 2: Enhancing PDF Documents

· Embed Multimedia

· Create Actions

· Index Documents

· Optimize PDF Files

· Batch Process PDF Documents

· Make a PDF Document More Accessible

· Repurpose a PDF Document for Other Displays

Unit 3: Creating Interactive PDF Forms in Adobe LiveCycle Designer

· Create a PDF Form

· Add Text Form Fields

· Create Calculations

· Create Fields with Predefined Responses

· Create Buttons

· Track Forms

· Compile Returned Forms into a PDF Package

· Organize Collected Data in a Spreadsheet

Unit 4: Preparing PDF Files for Commercial Printing

· Examine the Commercial Printing Process

· Choose Appropriate Methods of Creating PDF Files for Prepress

· Apply Color Management Settings

· Create and Apply Appropriate Adobe PDF Settings for Prepress

· Preview Printed Effects on Screen

Unit 5: Finalizing PDF Files for Commercial Printing

· Preflight Documents

· Create PDF/X and PDF/A Compliant Files

· Create a Composite

· Create Color Separations