Adobe Acrobat Training Courses

About this course

Adobe Acrobat allows PDF files to be created from any source document: MS Office applications, InDesign, Pagemaker, Access, Internet Explorer - in fact, any application that you can print from. While this is not a complex process, all PDF files are not created equal and there is much to learn about building the right PDF file for the job at hand. In print, for example, correct image resolution and font embedding is imperative to achieving a good result; on the Web, PDFs need to be optimised for fast download.

This course will take the mystery out of Acrobat and help you create the right PDF for your working environment every time.

What you will learn

If you've ever had trouble creating, editing or even opening PDF files then you'll find this course answers all the questions you have regarding the ubiquitous Portable Document Format.

The course begins with an introduction to the concept of PostScript and PDF before taking students through the process of making PDF files from a variety of source documents and optimising them for the task at hand: for print or web or distribution to others by email etc.

We'll then look at the Acrobat workspace in some detail, examining the many navigation, searching and sorting features the application has to offer before creating PDFs from within Acrobat itself from image files, text files, web pages and even emails. This will include an exercise in Optical Character Recognition (OCR), converting a scanned document to editable PDF text.

Creating PDFs directly from MS Office applications is the most common hurdle most people face in general office environments so time will be spent using the PDF Maker plug-in from Word, Excel and PowerPoint source documents, including mapping styles and headings to bookmarks, working with security, and converting Word footnotes and review comments to PDF notes.

We'll then move on to more advanced features by editing PDFs within Acrobat including linking, using bookmarks, using pages (thumbnails), cropping, extracting, editing images and much more.

Finally, we'll look at annotations such as notes, review markup, free text, freehand drawing and stamp creation, as well as the powerful send-for-review features introduced in more recent versions of the program.

Annotations and comments

• Understanding annotations
• Creating comments and markup
• Adding graphics, lines and highlights
• Creating and adding stamps
• Attaching files
• Using the Comments panel

PDF and pre-press

• PDF and InDesign
• PDF and Illustrator
• Creating press-ready PDF
• Using the Print Production tools
• Preflighting and preparing for print

PDF and the Web

• Using Acrobat.com
• Buzzword v. Google Docs
• Linking to PDF in web pages
• Linking from within PDF

PDF and Form Creation

• Understanding forms
• Using the forms wizard
• Creating text fields
• Creating buttons
• Understanding form actions
• Setting Adobe Reader privileges

Creating PDF Portfolios

• Understanding Portfolios
• Combining and merking documents
• Creating a cover page
• Merging files to single PDF

Here's what you get on a Fearless course

Course Materials

We typically supply detailed course notes or a reference text or in some cases both. Either way, we try to provide sufficient supporting material so that you can return to your work place with sufficient confidence to permit further learning.

Catering

We like to look after our customers with:

• Quality catering from local cafes
• Fresh fruit
• Filter coffee and good biscuits
• Table sweets
• Chilled water

We also accommodate special dietary requirements such as vegetarian, gluten intolerance etc.

Support

There's nothing worse than leaving a course and feeling left on your own. We like to ensure our customers have all the support and backup they need including:

• 90 days unlimited support by phone, email or instant messaging
• On-going support through our Fearless Flyer program (for an extra fee)
• A free re-sit of this course on any scheduled date in the future

You also get

• A certificate of completion
• A CD-ROM with worked examples (for most courses)

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