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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