Introduction to Adobe Acrobat 8 Training

Delivery Options

• Customized Onsite Training (3 days): Request a Proposal

Class Description

Class Overview

Class Goals

• Learn to convert Office files to PDF.
• Learn to create PDFs from web pages.
• Learn to edit PDF files.
• Learn to make accessible PDF documents.
• Learn to secure PDF files.
• Learn to create PDF forms.

Class Outline

1. Introducing Adobe Acrobat
   1. About Adobe PDF
   2. About Adobe Acrobat
   3. Adobe PDF on the web
   4. Getting Started with Adobe Acrobat window
   5. A first look at the work area
   6. Viewing PDF presentations in Full Screen mode
   7. Designing documents for online viewing
   8. Using Organizer
   9. Getting help
2. Looking at the Work Area
   1. Opening a PDF file in the work area
   2. Working with Acrobat tools and toolbars
   3. Working with Acrobat task buttons
   4. Working with the navigation pane
3. Creating Adobe PDF Files
   1. About creating Adobe PDF files
   2. Using the Create PDF command
   3. Converting and combining different types of files
   4. Using the Print command to create Adobe PDF files
   5. About the Adobe PDF Settings (presets)
   6. Comparing the default Adobe PDF Settings
   7. Reducing file size
   8. About compression and resampling
   9. Exploring on your own: Dragging and dropping files
   10. Exploring on your own: Creating Adobe PDF from the context menu (Windows)
   11. Exploring on your own: Creating Adobe PDF from clipboard images
4. Creating Adobe PDF from Microsoft Office Files
   1. About PDFMaker
   2. About Acrobat Connect
   3. Converting Microsoft Word files to Adobe PDF
   4. Converting and emailing PowerPoint presentations
   5. Converting Excel documents and starting a review
   6. Converting and attaching files in Microsoft Outlook
   7. Converting web pages from Internet Explorer
   8. Exploring on your own: Exporting tables from PDF files
   9. Exploring on your own: Converting and combining multiple Office files
5. Combining Files in PDF Packages
   1. About PDF packages
   2. Getting started
   3. Collecting PDF files in a package
   4. Navigating your PDF package
   5. Making changes to PDF packages
   6. Sorting PDF files in PDF packages
   7. Searching PDF packages
   8. Printing PDF packages
6. Creating Adobe PDF from Web Pages
   1. Converting web pages to Adobe PDF
   2. Connecting to the web
   3. Setting options for converting web pages
   4. Creating Adobe PDF files from web pages
   5. Updating converted web pages
   6. Converting web pages in Internet Explorer (Windows)
7. Converting Email Files to Adobe PDF (Windows)
   1. Converting email messages to Adobe PDF
   2. Sorting converted emails
   3. Adding email messages to PDF Packages
   4. Printing emails
   5. Migrating PDF archives to PDF packages (Outlook)
   6. Setting up automatic archiving in Outlook
8. Working with PDF Files
   1. Changing the opening view
   2. About the onscreen display
   3. Reading PDF documents
   4. Following links
   5. Searching PDF documents
   6. Printing PDF documents
   7. Filling out PDF forms
   8. Comparing documents
   9. Using the Acrobat accessibility features
9. Editing PDF Documents
   1. Opening and examining the work file
   2. Moving pages with page thumbnails
   3. Editing Adobe PDF pages
   4. Editing links
   5. Inserting one PDF file into another PDF file
   6. Looking at bookmarks
   7. Deleting a page
   8. Renumbering pages
   9. Setting an opening view
10. More About Editing
    1. About this lesson
    2. Viewing the work file
    3. Looking at articles
    4. Editing text
    5. Copying text and images from a PDF file
    6. Editing images using the TouchUp Object tool
    7. Converting PDF pages to image format files
    8. Reducing the file size
    9. Exploring on your own: Optimizing for page-at-a-time downloading
11. Using Acrobat in a Review Cycle
    1. About the review process
    2. Opening the work file
    3. Working with comments
    4. Exporting and importing comments
    5. Setting the review status and replying to comments
    6. Marking up documents
    7. Summarizing comments
    8. Comparing two Adobe PDF documents
    9. Spell checking comments
    10. Printing documents with comments
    11. Inviting users of Adobe Reader to participate in reviews
    12. Exploring on your own: Setting up email-based reviews
    13. Exploring on your own: Custom stamps
12. Adding Signatures and Security
    1. Getting started
    2. About digital signatures
    3. Creating digital signatures
    4. Adding images to your digital signatures
    5. Selecting a signing method
    6. Opening the work file
    7. Creating digital IDs
    8. Signing the advertisement
    9. Modifying signed documents
    10. About security
    11. Looking at security settings
    12. Adding security to PDF files
    13. Adding passwords
    14. Opening password-protected files
    15. Certifying PDF files
    16. Signing certified documents
    17. Exploring on your own: Using security envelopes
13. Creating Multimedia Presentations
    1. Getting started
    2. Adding interactive animations
    3. Adding Show/Hide fields
    4. Controlling movie clips with buttons
    5. Adding navigational buttons
    6. Adding sound files and adding multiple actions to one button
    7. Creating page actions to control multimedia clips
    8. Opening movie clips in floating windows
    9. Creating full screen presentations with transitions
14. Using the Engineering and Technical Features
    1. Getting started
    2. Merging documents
    3. Using the Pan & Zoom tool
    4. Working with layers
    5. Using measuring tools
    6. Using the Loupe tool
    7. Exporting measurements to spreadsheets
    8. Using the Cloud Annotation tool
    9. Preparing engineering documents for distribution
    10. Permanently removing text from PDF documents
15. Using the Legal Features
    1. About Bates numbering and redaction
    2. Applying Bates numbering
    3. Defining Bates numbering
    4. Finding Bates numbered PDF documents
    5. Editing Bates numbering
    6. Applying redaction
    7. Setting the Redaction tool properties
    8. Searching text for redaction
    9. Creating PDF packages
    10. Applying security
16. Working with Forms in Acrobat
    1. Converting paper forms to interactive PDF forms
    2. Adding text fields
    3. Adding check boxes and buttons
    4. Distributing forms
    5. Tracking and managing forms
    6. Exploring on your own: Calculating and validating numeric fields
17. Using Acrobat in Professional Publishing
    1. Creating PDF files for print and prepress
    2. Preflighting files
    3. Creating custom preflight profiles
    4. Printing and layers
    5. Previewing your print job
    6. Working with transparency
    7. Advanced printing controls
    8. Setting up color management
    9. Exploring on your own: The Acrobat prepress features
18. Creating Forms with Adobe LiveCycle Designer (Windows only)
    1. About Adobe LiveCycle Designer
    2. Looking at the work area
    3. Understanding objects
    4. Building new forms
    5. Adding text to a form
    6. Adding graphics to forms
    7. Adding text banners
    8. Grouping objects
    9. Adding content form fields
    10. Adding radio buttons
    11. Duplicating objects
    12. Adding check boxes
    13. Using Custom Library items
    14. Adding shapes
    15. Adding drop-down lists
    16. Adding the current date
    17. Previewing and exporting forms
    18. Distributing forms
    19. Exploring on your own: Exploring Adobe LiveCycle Designer
19. Making Documents Accessible and Flexible
    1. About flexibility
    2. About accessibility
    3. About structure
    4. Looking at accessible documents
    5. Making files flexible and accessible
    6. Viewing the results of adding tags

Class Materials

Each student in our Live Online and our Onsite classes receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.

Class Prerequisites

Experience in the following areas is required:

• Experience with basic software programs such as Microsoft Word

Technical Requirements

Our computer technical requirements and setup process is easy, with support just a click away.

• Onsite and Instructor-led Online course technical requirements and setup instructions.
• WebEx system requirements for Instructor-led Online delivery option.