Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional

Adobe Acrobat Professional

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Course Outline | Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional — Introduction

Creating Adobe PDF Files

  • Using the Create PDF command
  • Converting and combining different types of files
  • Using the Print command to create Adobe PDF files
  • About the Adobe PDF Settings
  • Comparing the default Adobe PDF Settings
  • Reducing file size
  • About compositing and resampling
  • Dragging and dropping files
  • Creating Adobe PDF from the context menu
  • Creating Adobe PDF from clipboard images

Creating Adobe PDF from Microsoft Office Files

  • About PDF Maker
  • About Acrobat Connect
  • Converting Microsoft Word files to Adobe PDF
  • Converting and emailing PowerPoint presentations
  • Converting Excel documents and starting a review
  • Converting and attaching files in Microsoft Outlook
  • Converting web pages from Internet Explorer
  • Exporting tables from PFD files
  • Converting and combining multiple Office files

Combining Files in PDF Packages

  • Collecting PDF files in a package
  • Navigating your PDF package
  • Making changes to PDF packages
  • Sorting PDF files in PDF packages
  • Searching PDF packages
  • Printing PDF packages

Creating Adobe PDF from Web Pages

  • Creating Adobe PDF from Web Pages
  • Connecting to the web
  • Setting options for converting web pages
  • Creating Adobe PDF files from web pages
  • Updating converted web pages
  • Converting web pages in Internet Explorer

Converting Email Files to Adobe PDF

  • Converting email messages to Adobe PDF
  • Sorting converted emails
  • Adding email messages to PDF packages
  • Printing emails
  • Migrating PDF archives to PDF packages (Outlook)
  • Setting up automatic archiving in Outlook

Working with PDF Files

  • Changing the opening view
  • About the onscreen display
  • Reading PDF documents
  • Following links
  • Searching PDF documents
  • Printing PDF documents
  • Filling out PDF forms
  • Comparing documents
  • Using the Acrobat accessibility features

Editing PDF Documents

  • Opening and examining the work file
  • Moving pages with page thumbnails
  • Editing Adobe PDF pages
  • Editing links
  • Inserting one PDF file into another PDF file
  • Looking at bookmarks
  • Deleting a page
  • Renumbering pages
  • Setting an opening view

More About Editing

  • Viewing the work file
  • Looking at articles
  • Editing text
  • Copying text and images from PDF file
  • Editing images using the TouchUp Object tool
  • Converting PDF pages to image format files
  • Reducing the file size
  • Optimizing for page-at-a-time downloading

Using Acrobat in a Review Cycle

  • About the review process
  • Opening the work file
  • Working with comments
  • Exporting and importing comments
  • Marking up documents
  • Summarizing documents
  • Comparing two Adobe PDF documents
  • Spell checking comments
  • Printing documents with comments
  • Inviting users of Adobe Reader to participate in reviews
  • Custom stamps

Adding Signatures and Security

  • About digital signatures
  • Creaing digital signatures
  • Adding images to your digital signatures
  • Selecting a signing method
  • Opening the work file
  • Creating digital IDs
  • Signing the advertisement
  • Modifying signed documents
  • About security
  • Looking at security settings
  • Adding security to PDF files
  • Adding passwords
  • Opening password-protected files
  • Certifying PDF files
  • Signing certified documents
  • Using security envelopes

Creating Multimedia Presentations

  • Adding interactive animations
  • Adding show/hide fields
  • Controlling movie clips with buttons
  • Adding navigational buttons
  • Adding sound files and adding multiple actions to one button
  • Creating page actions to control multimedia clips
  • Opening movie clips in floating windows
  • Creating full screen presentations with transitions

Using the Engineering and Technical Features

  • Merging documents
  • Using the Pan & Zoom tool
  • Working with layers
  • Using measuring tools
  • Using the Loupe tool
  • Exporting documents to spreadsheets
  • Using the Cloud Annotation tool
  • Preparing engineering documents for distribution
  • Permanently removing text from PDF documents

Using the Legal Features

  • About Bates numbering and redaction
  • Applying Bates numbering
  • Defining Bates numbering
  • Finding Bates numbered PDF documents
  • Editing Bates numbering
  • Applying redaction
  • Setting the Redaction tool properties
  • Searching text for redaction
  • Creating PDF packages
  • Applying security

Working with Forms in Acrobat

  • Converting paper forms to interactive PDF forms
  • Adding text fields
  • Adding check boxes and buttons
  • Distributing forms
  • Tracking and managing forms
  • Calculating and validating numeric fields

Using Acrobat in Professional Publishing

  • Creating PDF files for print and prepress
  • Preflighting files
  • Creating custom preflight profiles
  • Printing and layers
  • Previewing your print job
  • Working with transparency
  • Advanced printing controls
  • Setting up color management
  • The Acrobat prepress features

Making Documents Accessible and Flexible

  • About flexibility
  • About accessibility
  • About structure
  • Looking at accessible documents
  • Making files flexible and accessible

Course Outline | Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional: In the Office

Getting Your Bearings

  • Starting at the Beginning
  • The Interface
  • The Program Window
  • Toolbars and Task Buttons
  • Navigation Panels
  • Moving Through the Document
  • Opening and Saving Documents
  • Help is Close at Hand
  • Making Your Exit
 

Building a Cohesive Document

Creating a PDF from a PowerPoint Presentation

  • Preparing the Presentation for Conversion
  • Converting the Presentation

Creating PDF Documents from Web Pages

  • Converting a Web Page to PDF
  • Converting Selected Content from a Web Page to PDF

Combining Documents in Acrobat

  • Choosing and Ordering Files
  • Specifying Pages to Include
  • Specifying the File Type
  • Renaming Assigned Bookmarks
  • Generating the Finished Document

Tweaking the Bookmarks

  • Weeding Out Bookmarks
  • Ordering and Testing

Reordering Pages

Tweaking Page Content

  • Deleting Extra Page Content
  • Repositioning Objects on the Page
  • Resizing a Document Page

Creating a Page from a Snapshot

  • Capturing Content from a Paget
  • Using Clipboard Content
  • Replacing the Document Page

Adding Unifying Content

  • Defining the Footer Appearance
  • Customizing the Footers
  • Specifying Page Ranges
  • Automatically Changing Page Content

Communicating with Comments

Converting the Source Document

  • Starting a Review Directly from Word

Checking the Review Document

  • Specifying the Opening View

Initiating a Comment and Review Cycle

Participating in the Review

Using Commenting Tools

  • Adding a Comment
  • The Same Feature, but Different Names

Using Text Edit Tools

  • Using the Text Editor Toolbar
  • Starting from the Document Pane
  • Bypassing the Comment & Markup Toolbar
  • Return to Sender

Integrating Comments into the PDF File

Managing the Review

Using the Comments Panel

  • Tracking the Comments
  • Integrating Comments into Word

Collaborating in a Shared Review

What's Your Preference?

Steps Involved in This Project

Preparing the Document

  • Producing the Review Document

Starting the Review

Sharing Comments

  • Managing Comments
  • Checking the Publishing Status

Following the Comments Online

  • Receiving Notifications
  • Specifying When You Are Notified

Course Details

Introduction

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Adobe Acrobat 8
Price
$695
Date
5/12/08 - 5/14/08
Length
3 Days
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What's Included?

Included In The Cost Of The Course: Course Book, Breakfast And Lunch, And Certification Test Voucher!

Instructor

Rich Baim

An Adobe Certified Instructor for Adobe Premiere Pro with over twenty years of video editing experience. Rich has a Master of Science degree in Instructional Media and was one of the beta testers for Premiere Pro 1.5. He currently works in the eLearning department at a technology center and specializes in streaming media for health education. Rich emphasizes real-world problem solving and provides "hands-on" experiences for students.

Margaret A. Gaeddert

Margaret "Margee" Gaeddert, is a certified professional designer and owner of G Art & Design in Oklahoma City. A 30 year career in design as an art director, graphic designer, illustrator, and web designer has awarded her regional, national and international awards. She has worked with Fortune 500 and 1000 corporations such as AOL, Avon, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co, Sony Music, CNBC.com and Gucci. Local corporations include American Fidelity, KOCO Television, Metropolitan Library Association and Sperry Van Ness. She teaches design at the University of Central Oklahoma. Gaeddert enjoys serving on the board of the Oklahoma Watercolor Association, and two design advisory boards supporting education in Oklahoma. She holds a bachelor's of fine arts degree and is an accomplished award winning fine artist in watercolor media, calligraphy and caricature art.

Jason Gaines

Mr. Gaines is a certified professional in both Logic Pro 8 and Soundtrack 2. He is currently in demand as an instructor of both applications. Current projects include independent film work and collaboration on the television series, LA Ink. Jason Gaines is a New York City based trumpeter, composer and arranger. He has performed and recorded with some of the most influential performers in the jazz idiom including Arturo Sandoval, Roy Hargrove, Joshua Redman, Freddie Hubbard, Jackie McLean, Gerald Wilson and others. He holds degrees from Manhattan School of Music, New York University and Teachers College, Columbia University.

Foster Johnson

Foster Johnson is the Owner and Lead Creative for Foster Johnson Studios. He has 10 years of professional creative development and leadership experience in interactive, print and advertising, executing creative direction, art direction and team strategy. An architect of numerous web based commerce and database connectivity solutions, as well as e-commerce, telecoms, entertainment, advertising, publishing, photography and video for broadband. Johnson is an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) with expert level application skills in Adobe Creative Suite 3, including: Flash using ActionScript 3.0, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects Pro, InDesign, Acrobat Pro, Captivate 3.0, LiveCycle ES as well as QuarkXPress and web application development using advanced CSS, SQL, AJAX, XML, RSS, Google AdSense and AdWords.

Rick Allen Lippert

Rick Allen Lippert is president of Lippert Media in Oklahoma City with 30 years experience on both sides of the camera. Specializing in industrial production, he has won numerous awards for his writing, producing, and directing for clients such as the Oklahoma Arts Institute, Oklahoma City University, the City of Oklahoma City, the University of Central Oklahoma, the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration.His commercial clients include CompSource Oklahoma and Dane Design. Rick has been using Final Cut Pro since version 1.25. As an adjunct instructor, he teaches video production at Oklahoma City Community College and media writing at the University of Oklahoma.

Brian Mays

Brian Mays has 5 years of teaching at the University of Central Oklahoma and Oklahoma City Community College, 9 years of day-to-day web and print design at OPUBCO Communications Group, and 2 years as president of Oklahoma’s AIGA chapter. When Brian was young he picked up a pencil and drew Disco Mickey Mouse. Then about 15 years ago Brian was stricken with The Graphic Designer’s Curse and could not look at print and digital design works without mentally deconstructing and reconstructing them to figure out how they were built.

Kiri Roberts

Kiri Christopher Roberts is the creative director of One Media USA, a media production house located in Albany, NY. Born in Zimbabwe, Kiri migrated to the UK where he received a Masters in Audio Production from the University of Westminster in London. With a diverse international experience he has worked on music production, TV commercials, documentary films, music videos and currently ‘Frozen River’ the movie. Kiri is also a contributing writer for the Edit-Well magazine whose editor is Larry Jordan of LA. Kiri balances his time between his business and as a trainer for Apple Pro Apps. He is an Apple Certified end user and trainer for Motion 3, FCP6, STP2 & Logic 8.

Luis Sierra

Luis Sierra is an experienced Apple Certified Trainer for Color and all levels of Final Cut Pro 6. He teaches custom classes in DVD Studio Pro 4 and Motion 3. Luis attended the Macintosh Learning Center in New York City. He continued his education at an Apple Certified Training Center and became their IT/Editing Systems manager for 3 years and then the Apple Certified Instructor in Miami. He has also worked in technical support for video editing systems at National Trade Shows such as the Digital Media DC Conference in Washington, DC, the Avid Government Training Symposium in Washington DC, and NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) in Las Vegas NV. Luis brings real world experience into the classroom and shares it with his students.

Luisa Winters

Luisa Winters has been in the professional videography industry for 17 years. An awards winning videographer / editor, her tips make editing and compositing more productive, faster, and far more inventive. Luisa is a featured instructor for NAB, Government Video Expo, DV Expo, CES, NAB - NY and PMA. An accomplished videographer, editor, 3D animator and graphics designer, her compositions have been seen on broadcast TV as well as in private video productions. She has created and edited scores of video and web projects for dozens of corporate, government, and educational, commercial and private clients. Luisa has conducted training sessions and master classes for Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Flash and Encore DVD. Luisa is a Johns Hopkins University Graduate and is fluent in both English and Spanish.

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