Course Content
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
- Getting help
Creating Adobe PDF Files
- About creating Adobe PDF files
- Using the Create command
- Dragging and dropping files
- Converting different types of files
- Using PDFMaker (explained only)
- Using the Print command to create Adobe PDF files
- Reducing file size
- Optimizing PDF files (Acrobat Pro only)
- Scanning a paper document
- Making scanned text editable and searchable
- Converting web pages to Adobe PDF
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
- Working with accessible documents
- Making files flexible and accessible (Acrobat Pro only)
- Using Acrobat accessibility features (Standard and Pro)
- Sharing PDF files
Enhancing PDF Documents
- Examining the work file
- Moving pages with page thumbnails
- Manipulating pages
- Renumbering pages
- Managing links
- Working with bookmarks
- Setting document properties and metadata
Editing Content in PDF Files
- Editing text
- Working with images in a PDF file
- Copying text and images from a PDF file
- Exporting PDF content to a PowerPoint presentation
- Saving PDF files as Word documents
- Extracting PDF tables as Excel spreadsheets
Combining Files
- About combining files
- Selecting files to combine
- Arranging pages
- Merging the files
Adding Signatures and Security
- Getting started
- Viewing documents in Protected Mode (Windows only)
- About security
- Viewing security settings
- Adding security to PDF files
- About digital signatures
- Creating digital signatures
- Signing a document digitally
- Modifying signed documents
- Certifying PDF files
- Signing certified documents
- Exploring on your own: Using security envelopes
Using Acrobat in a Review Cycle
- About the review process
- Getting started
- Adding comments to a PDF document
- Working with comments
- Initiating a shared review
Working with Forms in Acrobat
- Getting started
- 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
Using Actions (Acrobat Pro)
- About actions
- Using predefined actions
- Creating an action
- Sharing actions
Using Acrobat in Professional Printing
- Creating PDF files for print and prepress
- Preflighting files (Acrobat Pro)
- Working with transparency (Acrobat Pro)
- Setting up color management
- Previewing your print job (Acrobat Pro)
- Advanced printing controls
