The full version of Acrobat Professional one of the most under-utilized Adobe applications. Acrobat is filled with industrial-strength features for creating dynamic documents including: forms, multimedia slideshows, interactive catalogs and more. Acrobat's rich feature set also includes commenting, editing PDF capabilities, and preflighting (checking that a file is print or press-ready.)

This 2 day course covers introductory and advanced topics.

Introducing Adobe Acrobat

• About Adobe PDF
• About Adobe Acrobat
• About Adobe Reader
• Adobe PDF on the web
• A first look at the work area
• Viewing PDF presentations in Full Screen mode
• Viewing PDF files in Read mode
• Designing documents for online viewing

Exploring The Work Area

• Opening a PDF file
• Working with the toolbars
• Working with task panes
• Customizing the Quick Tools toolbar
• Using keyboard shortcuts to select tools
• Navigating PDF documents

Creating Adobe PDF Files

• About creating Adobe PDF files
• Using the Create command
• Dragging and dropping files
• Converting and combining different types of files
• Using PDFMaker
• Using the Print command to create Adobe PDF files
• Reducing file size
• About compression and resampling
• Scanning a paper document
• Making scanned text editable and searchable
• Converting email messages to PDF (Windows)
• Converting web pages to Adobe PDF

Reading And Working With PDF Files

• Changing the opening view
• About the onscreen display
• Reading PDF documents
• Searching PDF documents
• Printing PDF documents
• Filling out PDF forms
• About flexibility, accessibility, and structure
• Working with accessible documents
• Making files flexible and accessible
• Using the Acrobat accessibility features
• Sharing PDF files

Using Acrobat With Microsoft Office Files

• About Acrobat PDFMaker
• Converting Microsoft Word files to Adobe PDF
• Converting Excel documents and review Converting PowerPoint presentations
• Converting web pages from Internet Explorer
• Saving PDF files as Word documents
• Extracting PDF tables as Excel spreadsheets

Enhancing And Editing PDF Documents

• Examining the work file
• Moving pages with page thumbnails
• Editing Adobe PDF pages
• Renumbering pages
• Editing links
• Working with bookmarks
• Adding multimedia files
• Editing text
• Copying text and images from a PDF file
• Setting document properties and metadata

Combining Files In PDF Portfolios

• About PDF Portfolios
• Creating a PDF Portfolio
• Customizing your PDF Portfolio
• Sharing your PDF Portfolio
• Searching a PDF Portfolio

Adding Signatures And Security

• Getting started
• Viewing documents in Protected Mode (Windows only)
• About security
• Viewing security settings
• Adding security to PDF files
• About digital signatures
• Creating digital signatures
• Signing a document digitally
• Modifying signed documents
• Certifying PDF files
• Signing certified documents

Using Acrobat In A Review Cycle

• About the review process
• Adding comments to a PDF document
• Working with comments
• Initiating a shared review

Working With Forms In Acrobat

• Converting PDF files to interactive PDF forms
• Adding form fields
• Distributing forms
• Collecting form data
• Working with form data

Using Actions

• About actions
• Using predefined actions
• Creating an action
• Sharing actions

Using The Legal Features

• Legal features in Adobe Acrobat X
• About Bates numbering and redaction
• Applying Bates numbering
• Defining Bates numbering
• Editing Bates numbering
• Applying redaction
• Changing the appearance of redactions
• Searching text for redaction
• Assembling PDF documents
• Marking redactions across multiple pages

Using Acrobat In Professional Printing

• Creating PDF files for print and prepress
• Preflighting files (Acrobat Pro)
• Working with transparency (Acrobat Pro)
• Setting up color management
• Previewing your print job (Acrobat Pro)
• Advanced printing controls