Intro to Acrobat 8 Professional

Class description

Adobe Acrobat is so much more than just Adobe Reader. Learn to create secure, password-protected files, interactive documents and PowerPoint™-style presentations. Create links and bookmarks within a PDF document and even link to a page in another file. Discover how Adobe Acrobat can be used as a tool for collaboration, sharing comments from multiple contributors through e-mail or over the web. You’ll even learn how to edit images and text in existing PDF’s. This 2-day intensive hands-on Adobe Acrobat training will open up a world of PDF and paperless workflow possibilities. What you will learn includes:

PDF compression options
Combining files
Security & digital signatures

Working with links & bookmarks
Using Acrobat for collaboration
Adding and removing pages

adobe course curriculum

Getting to know the work area

Customizing the interface
Determining the page view
Moving through the document

Converting files to Adobe PDF

About creating Adobe PDF files
Creating an Adobe PDF using the create PDF command
Converting and combining different types of files
Using the print command to create Adobe PDF files
Searching PDF files

Creating Adobe PDF from web pages

Creating an Adobe PDF file from a web page
Connecting to the web
Setting options for converting web pages
Updating converted web pages

Customizing Adobe PDF output

Default and customized compression settings
About compression and resampling

Modifying PDF files

Editing text and images
Cropping, rotating and reordering pages
Inserting, extracting and replacing pages
Renumbering pages
Adding and extracting images and text
Reducing the file size
Removing sensitive information

PDF navigation

Creating links, & bookmarks
Linking to web pages and other PDF documents

Using PDF files collaboratively

The commenting tools
The graphic markup tools
Setting comment preferences
Sorting, filtering, summarizing, exporting & importing comments
Enabling commenting for users of Adobe reader

Making documents accessible and flexible

About accessibility and flexibility
About structure
Looking at reading order
Using the Acrobat accessibility features

Digital signatures and version control

Creating a user profile
Adding and verifying digital signatures
Comparing signed versions of a document

Intro to the forms tools

Enabling the save feature for users of Adobe reader

Making PDF's into a multimedia production

Using actions to create interactivity
Using the full screen view

Adobe Acrobat for professional publishing

Creating PDF for print and prepress
Preflighting
Layers
Output preview
Working with transparency
Advanced printing controls

Mira Images

Intro to Acrobat 8 Professional

2 day class, cost: $749

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.