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Course Aims:

Acrobat represents the newest revolution in the war between paper and electronic documents. Arm yourself for the battle by learning how to create, edit, and manage your library of electronic PDF files.  This course provides you with the basic knowledge you will need to understand how Adobe Acrobat documents are created from standard
desktop applications. You will convert actual Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and Excel spreadsheets to create electronic documents. Delegates will be introduced to the main methods of creating Adobe Acrobat PDF files then enhance those files using Adobe Acrobat, Acrobat Distiller, and Acrobat Catalog.

Course Outline

Before you Begin
Prerequisites
Getting Ready
Curriculum Overview
About the Manual
Chapter Overviews
Manual Conventions

Acrobat Overview
The Acrobat Process. Components and Interface
Navigating and Searching Documents
Changing View Magnification
Full Screen Display

Creating PDF Files
The PDFWriter
Setting PDFWriter Properties
Acrobat Distiller Print Driver
Manually Distilling a Document
Setting Watched Folders
Converting Spreadsheets and Presentations

Building Documents
Combining PDFs
Cropping Pages
Creating Pages from Imported Images
Working with Thumbnails
Setting Document Information
Working in Full Screen Mode
Viewing PDFs in a Browser

Annotating and Editing Documents
Working with Text Content
Changing Text Attributes
Working with Objects
Annotations at a Glance
Note, Text, File, Stamp, Managing, Filtering & Summarizing Annotations
Printing your Document

Adding Navigation, Sound and Movies
Bookmarks
Setting Actions
Hyperlinks
Navigating with Articles
creating Articles
Inserting Sound and Movies