Topic 1 Converting Electronic Documents to PDF

Topic Objectives
Adobe Acrobat Vs Adobe Reader
The Adobe Acrobat Professional Work Area
The Adobe Reader Work Area
The Getting Started screen
Using the navigation panes
Using context menus
About toolbars
Opening and Closing Toolbars

Selecting tools
Opening documents
Navigating through documents
Adjusting the view of documents
Resizing a page
The Split-window views
Adjusting the work area
Customising the toolbars
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Topic 2 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
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Topic 3 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
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Topic 4 Editing PDF Files I

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
Converting PDF files to Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format
Saving PDF files in other formats
Reducing file size
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Topic 5 Advanced PDF Creation

Topic Objectives
Using Acrobat Distiller
Step 1: Creating a PostScript file
Step 2: Converting a PostScript file in Distiller
The default settings explained
Creating custom Adobe PDF settings
Using the Adobe PDF settings
General Options
Images options
Fonts options
Colour options

Advanced options
Standards options
Locations of PDF settings files
Sharing custom Adobe PDF settings
Removing customised Adobe PDF settings
Using watched folders
Distiller preferences
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Topic 6 PDF Forms

Topic Objectives
About PDF forms
PDF form objects
Creating form fields
Using the grid to lay out form fields
Ruler guides
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
Digital signature field properties
Exporting data from a form
Importing data into a form
Using buttons to import data

Using form data to create a spreadsheet
Editing Form Fields
Duplicating form fields
Aligning 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
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Topic 7 Editing PDF Files II

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
Clipping 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
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Topic 8 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
Specifying button appearance
Showing and hiding buttons
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Topic 9 Optimising, Preflighting, and Preparing for Print

Topic Objectives
PDF Optimizer
Auditing the space usage of a PDF file
Optimizing a PDF file
Images settings
Fonts settings
Transparency settings
Discard Objects settings
Discard User Data settings
Clean Up settings

Preflighting PDF documents
Analysing preflight results
Previewing output on screen
Previewing colour separations on screen
Previewing transparency flattening
Converting colours
Advanced print options
The Ink Manager
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Appendix A: Index