Course overview
Adobe Acrobat is used to produce digital documents for proofing, creating pages for the Web, Intranet,
CD's, and print. Acrobat now comes as Acrobat Elements, Acrobat Standard or Acrobat Professional. Acrobat Professional has prepress features. This course provides information for producing PDF documents for any media. Trainees are encouraged to bring samples in order to tailor the course for specific requirements.

Who should attend
Knowledge of application programs such as Word, Excel, QuarkXPress, InDesign PageMaker etc.

Course contents

Getting Started
What are PDF files?
Acrobat overview (windows, palettes, help menu, tutorials)
Using Acrobat Reader
Setting the preferences
Navigating PDF documents
Finding and searching for words in PDF documents

Using Acrobat Distiller
Creating and using Adobe PDF Files

Using Adobe Acrobat
Creating PDFs from a file (using different applications)
Create PDFs from multiple documents
Create PDFs with layers intact
Optimizing and compressing file sizes
Working with pages, bookmarks, articles, destinations and links
Viewing PDFs using the zoom tools
Editing and copying text and graphics
Adding page numbers, watermarks, background, and headers and footers
Rotating, cropping, adding, replacing and extracting pages
Adding and managing comments
Creating and using forms
Spell check comments and forms
Working with and managing review comments
Adding interactivity with buttons, videos and actions
Comparing documents
E-mailing from Acrobat
Creating an index from PDF files
Batch processing
Colour proofing
Previewing transparency flattening and overprinting
Convert scanned files into PDFs

Printing
Exporting images
Saving files in different formats
Printing PDF files
Advanced colour printing options

The course outline is only a guide. It can be adapted to suit your requirements.

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