Adobe Acrobat for Business

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. This is a Windows ONLY course.

Course Prerequisites:

Competency in using applications on a PC or Macintosh is an ESSENTIAL prerequisite for this course.

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 Introduction to Adobe Acrobat

  • Topic Objectives
  • About Adobe Acrobat
  • About the PDF file format
  • Adobe Acrobat Professional Components
  • Acrobat Family Product comparison
  • Topic Summary
  • Topic Review

Topic 2 The Acrobat Interface

  • Adobe Acrobat Vs Adobe Reader
  • The Adobe Acrobat Professional Work Area
  • The Adobe Reader Work Area
  • Using the Navigation panels
  • Using context menus
  • About toolbars
  • Opening and Closing Toolbars
  • Selecting tools
  • Opening documents
  • Navigating in documents
  • Adjusting the view of documents
  • Page layout and orientation
  • The Split-window views
  • Adjusting the work area
  • Adjusting the work area
  • Customising the toolbars
  • Topic Summary
  • Topic Review

Topic 3 Converting Electronic Documents to PDF

  • Topic Objectives
  • Creating Adobe PDF Files
  • Methods of Creating PDF Files
  • Method 1: “Printing to PDF” from any application
  • Method 2: Converting Microsoft Office Documents to PDF
  • Method 3: The Drag and Drop Method
  • Method 4: Within Acrobat to produce a PDF
  • Method 5: Using the Context Menu (Windows Only)
  • Method 6: Save/Export from Applications
  • Method 7: Converting Web Pages to PDF
  • Method 8: Converting Paper Documents to PDF
  • Method 9: Advanced Adobe PDF Creation Using Acrobat Distiller
  • Topic Summary
  • Topic Review

Topic 4 Customising PDF Settings

  • Topic Objectives
  • The default Adobe PDF settings
  • Using the default Adobe PDF settings
  • The default settings explained
  • Creating custom Adobe PDF settings
  • Locations of PDF settings files
  • Adding custom Adobe PDF settings
  • Removing custom Adobe PDF settings
  • Topic Summary
  • Topic Review

Topic 5 Converting Hardcopy Documents to PDF

  • Topic Objectives
  • Using a scanner to create PDF files
  • Before you scan
  • Scanning pages to create a PDF file
  • Converting scans of pages to searchable text Correcting OCR errors
  • Correcting OCR errors
  • Topic Summary
  • Topic Review

Topic 6 Bookmarks and Links

  • Topic Objectives
  • Why use Bookmarks?
  • Adding Bookmarks
  • Editing bookmark properties
  • Nested bookmarks
  • Adding links to a PDF document
  • Creating a link
  • Editing links
  • Topic Summary
  • Topic Review

Topic 7 Editing PDF Files

  • Topic Objectives
  • Copying and pasting text, tables, and images
  • Copying tables
  • Copying and saving images
  • The Snapshot tool
  • Editing PDF documents
  • Editing text
  • Inserting new text
  • Cropping pages
  • Changing page size
  • Rotating pages
  • Extracting pages
  • Moving or copying pages
  • Deleting or replacing pages
  • Combining Adobe PDF documents
  • Inserting a clipboard selection into a PDF (Windows only)
  • Saving and Exporting PDFs to other formats
  • Converting PDF files to Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format
  • Reducing file size
  • Topic Summary
  • Topic Review

Topic 8 Commenting a PDF

  • Topic Objectives
  • About adding comments
  • Sticky Notes
  • Text edit comments
  • The Stamp tool
  • Drawing Markup tools
  • Text box comments
  • The Callout tool
  • Attaching a file
  • Topic Summary
  • Topic Review

Topic 9 Adding Security to a PDF Document

  • Topic Objectives
  • Password security
  • Applying password security
  • Removing password security
  • Viewing the security settings
  • Applying security when creating PDF files using Method 1
  • Applying security when creating PDF files using Method 2
  • Topic Summary
  • Topic Review

Topic 10 Searching and Printing

  • Topic Objectives
  • Searching text
  • Searching using the Find toolbar
  • Searching using the Search PDF window
  • Printing PDF documents
  • Topic Summary
  • Topic Review

Appendix A The Organizer

  • Using the Organizer
  • The categories pane
  • The files pane
  • Erasing the history
  • The pages pane

Appendix B Adobe PDF conversion settings and Watched Folders

  • The default settings explained
  • Using the Adobe PDF settings
  • General Options
  • Images options
  • Fonts options
  • Colour options
  • Advanced options
  • Standards options
  • Using watched folders

Appendix: Index

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Packages

Packages Available

Adobe Acrobat for Business 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 1 Package

  • Acrobat for Business, InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop Level 1
  • 7 days

Visit our packages page for more information

Specials

2010 Training Special for Sydney-Brisbane-Melbourne-Canberra Centres

Option 1 (SYD-BRIS-MELB):

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.

Option 2 (SYD-BRIS-MELB-CANB):

Buy 2 * 2-day courses and get a 1-day course FREE

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Alpha is offering a FREE 1-day course to the person attending TWO 2-day public courses (at RRP pricing) in our Sydney-Brisbane-Melbourne-Canberra Training Centres during the promotional period. The offer can’t be taken with another offer or promotion and will be limited to specific 1-day courses. Courses will be invoiced together (two 2-day courses, at RRP pricing, plus 1-day free course) and must be paid in full before course commencement to obtain free course. Register for TWO public 2-day courses to obtain the FREE 1-day course.

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Alpha is offering a 15% discount OFF to the person attending TWO 2-day public courses (at RRP pricing) in our Sydney-Brisbane-Melbourne Training Centre during the promotional period. The offer can’t be taken with another offer or promotion. Courses will be invoiced together (two 2-day courses to one attendee, at RRP pricing, less 15% OFF) and must be paid in full before course commencement to obtain free course. Register for TWO public 2-day courses to obtain the 15% discount off.

Option 4 (SYD-BRIS-MELB):

Buy Acrobat Package for $800 (Package RRP normally $850) from 27/04/2010

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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As part of our new launch of these gift vouchers, when you purchase 2 or more vouchers you will go into the running to win a corporate pack, which includes a Free 1 day public course of your choice, an eLearning CD Package ( where applicable) and a bottle of wine.

Course cost

$450

Less with Packages

Duration

1 day

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