Intro to Forms with Acrobat 8 Professional

Class description

Did you know that, in addition to all the other wonderful things Adobe Acrobat does, it can be used to create interactive, dynamic forms too? This intensive 3-day hands-on Adobe Acrobat training will teach you about Acrobat forms; how to generate them, make them dynamic, import and export information from them and even how to write some basic code to customize your form’s behavior. No prior experience with Adobe Acrobat is required. Some of what you will learn includes:

Navigating the interface
Static vs. dynamic PDF forms
Creating form fields

Adding interactivity with actions
Adding calculations
Best practices for forms creation

adobe course curriculum

What is PDF really?

Getting acquainted with the Acrobat family of products

Feature comparison: Acrobat 8 Pro vs. Acrobat 8 Standard

Creating PDFs: methods overview

Creating a blank PDF from within Acrobat
Generating PDFs from electronic originals

A quick view of the Adobe Acrobat 8 interface

The Acrobat toolbars
Tool tips

Acrobat forms vs. HTML

Form field basics

Field types
Font formatting considerations
Field formatting

Design tools

Auto-generated form fields (Windows only)
Layout rulers, grids & guides
Aligning and sizing form fields
Creating form field arrays and tables

Modifying PDF documents

Cropping
Editing images and objects
Keep the form, change the foundation
Adding text directly to a PDF

Setting document open options

Using the fields palette

Form field updating
Form field naming

Making your form function properly

Setting tab order
Setting calculation order

Adding interactivity

Creating remote rollovers
Opening a file
The execute menu item action
Loading images using JavaScript
Object level actions
Page level actions
Document level actions
External JavaScripts
Using alert boxes

Accessibility

Working with tags

Best practices

Tips and tricks

Mira Images

Intro to Forms with Acrobat 8 Professional

3 day class, cost: $1125

Students receive a course text, Adobe Acrobat 8: Classroom in a Book, which includes a CD of class files. These resources provide students with a valuable tool for post-training practice, using familiar files and lessons.

All Mira Images Adobe authorized training is provided by certified instructors at our location or yours. Because we know your time is valuable,

We will never cancel your class.

The Mira Images Classroom is located just outside of Philadelphia, PA and is convenient to Harrisburg, PA; New York, NY; New Jersey; Baltimore, MD; Wilmington, DE; and Washington DC.