Adobe Acrobat Advanced

Summary

Course Aim:

This course provides a comprehensive look at Acrobat to efficiently use the Acrobat PDF technology to produce documents for output to desktop printers, high-quality printing and web (online). Users will produce, edit, comment and enhance various PDF documents for business use and examine the potential of this technology for publishing distribution.

Course Prerequisites:

The prerequisites for this course is that you have completed the Acrobat for Business course or have equivalent knowledge.

Course Duration:

One day 9:00am – 4:30pm

Classroom courses include:

  • Adobe Certified instructors (with min 10 yrs experience)
  • Alpha prepared comprehensive coursenotes with tutorials and exercises (updated frequently to reflect industry trends)
  • Certificates
  • eLearning DVD Package (FREE at course registration where available, see our SPECIALS)
  • After course support, unlimited HELP DESK (via email, to reinforce the learning), helpdesk@alphacc.com.au
  • Training guarantee
  • FREE repeat of public course within 6 months (where required, and on same version), see terms & conditions

Content

Course Content

During this course you will learn about:

Topic 1 PDF Forms

  • Topic Objectives
  • About PDF forms
  • PDF form objects
  • Creating a form
  • Using the grid to lay out form fields
  • Ruler guides
  • Creating form fields
  • Combo box properties
  • Text field properties
  • List box properties
  • Radio Button properties
  • Check box properties
  • Buttons
  • Buttons for submitting a form
  • Creating a button to reset a form
  • GDigital signature field properties
  • Set form field navigation (tab order)
  • Exporting data from a form
  • Importing data into a form
  • Using form data to create a spreadsheet
  • Distribute forms
  • Forms Tracker
  • Editing Form Fields
  • Duplicating form fields
  • Aligning, Centring and Distributing form fields
  • Automatically detecting form fields
  • Using Adobe LiveCycle Designer (Windows only)
  • Opening Adobe LiveCycle Designer
  • Creating a new form
  • Starting with a blank form
  • Working with objects
  • Saving a form as a template
  • Previewing forms in the Preview PDF tab
  • Creating calculation fields
  • Topic Summary
  • Topic Review

Topic 2 Editing PDF Files

  • Topic Objectives
  • Editing an image in Photoshop or Illustrator
  • Setting TouchUp preferences
  • Adding text with the Typewriter tool
  • Placing an image or object
  • Moving or editing an object
  • Resizing an object
  • Resizing an object
  • Delete Clip
  • Numbering pages
  • Inserting headers and footers
  • Inserting a background
  • Inserting a watermark
  • Redacting confidential content
  • Searching for and redacting text
  • Changing the look of redaction markers
  • Specifying an initial view
  • Topic Summary
  • Topic Review

Topic 3 Multimedia PDF Files

  • Topic Objectives
  • Action types
  • Action triggers
  • Adding movies to PDF files
  • Adding sounds to PDF files
  • Using buttons to control media files
  • Creating navigation buttons
  • Duplicating Buttons
  • Topic Summary
  • Topic Review

Topic 4 Digital Signatures

  • Topic Objectives
  • Using digital signatures
  • Digital signatures overview
  • Using digital IDs
  • Creating a self-signed digital ID
  • Signing a PDF document
  • Changing the appearance of signatures
  • Sending your digital ID certificate to others
  • Getting digital ID certificates from others
  • What makes a digital signature invalid?
  • Validating signatures
  • Displaying previous versions
  • Comparing versions
  • Topic Summary
  • Topic Review

Topic 5 Sharing and Reviewing PDF Documents

  • Topic Objectives
  • About reviewing PDF documents
  • Reviews using Adobe Reader
  • File sharing and real-time collaboration
  • Collaborating with others in a PDF
  • Collaborate in online meetings
  • Types of Reviews
  • Specifying a server for a shared review
  • Starting a shared review
  • Starting an email-based review
  • Participating in a review
  • Options in the document message bar
  • Receiving comments from a reviewer
  • The Review Tracker
  • The Comments List
  • Importing and exporting comments
  • Importing comments into a Microsoft Word document (Windows only)
  • Importing comments into AutoCAD (Windows only)
  • Topic Summary
  • Topic Review

Topic 6 Optimising, Preflighting & Preparing for Print

  • Topic Objectives
  • PDF Optimizer
  • Auditing the space usage of a PDF file
  • Optimizing a PDF file
  • Preflighting PDF documents
  • Analysing preflight results
  • Previewing output on screen
  • Previewing transparency flattening
  • Converting colours
  • Advanced print options
  • The Ink Manager
  • Topic Summary
  • Topic Review

Topic 7 Batch Processing

  • Topic Objectives
  • Using batch sequences
  • Running batch sequences
  • The preset batch sequences
  • Creating new batch sequences
  • Topic Summary
  • Topic Review

Topic 8 Creating accessible PDF documents

  • Topic Objectives
  • What is accessibility?
  • Adobe’s accessibility site
  • Why make PDF documents accessible?
  • Some features of accessible PDF documents
  • About tags, reading order, and reflow
  • Creating tags in authoring applications
  • Adding tags to an existing PDF document
  • Creating bookmarks from tags
  • The TouchUp Reading Order tool
  • Adding Alternate Text
  • Topic Summary
  • Topic Review

Appendix A Indexing PDF Documents

  • Creating an index
  • Searching PDF files using an index
  • Embedding an index into a PDF
  • Updating, rebuilding, and purging indexes
  • Revising an index

Appendix: Index

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Packages

Packages Available

Adobe Acrobat Advanced is offered as part of the following packages, designed for users who want to attend multiple courses to achieve in depth knowledge:

Acrobat Package

  • Acrobat for Business, Acrobat Advanced
  • 2 days

Publishing Level 2 Package

  • Acrobat Advanced, InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop Level 2
  • 7 days

Publishing Level 3 Package (Advanced)

  • Acrobat Advanced, InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop Level 3
  • 4 days

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Specials

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Selected Level 1 courses $800 from 27/04/2010

Selected Level 1 public courses in our Sydney-Brisbane-Melbourne Training Centres are now $800 (RRP $935) during the promotional period. The offer can’t be taken with another offer or promotion.

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Option 4 (SYD-BRIS-MELB):

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The Acrobat Package (Acrobat for Business and Acrobat Advanced) public courses in our Sydney-Brisbane-Melbourne Training Centres is now $800 during the promotional period (Package RRP normally $850; note the 2 courses bought separetely are $945). The offer can’t be taken with another offer or promotion and is limited.

 

eLearning DVD

When you attend the any of the following scheduled courses, you will receive a FREE eLearning DVD:

  • Acrobat for Business
  • PhotoShop Level 1
  • Illustrator Level 1
  • InDesign Level 1
  • Dreamweaver Level 1
  • Flash Level 1
  • Acrobat Advanced
  • PhotoShop Level 2
  • Illustrator Level 2
  • InDesign Level 2
  • Dreamweaver Level 2
  • Flash Level 2

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Course cost

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