Acrobat Jumpstart – zero to HERO

• Course content

  Create PDF from Microsoft Office

  • Generate PDFs from Microsoft Office
  • The PDF Maker
  • Embedding bookmarks, TOC, links

  Document repurposing

  • Powerpoint to PDF presentations
  • HTML pages to PDF

  Acrobat Distiller

  • Create low and high quality PDFs
  • Impact of resolution and font embedding
  • PDF versioning

  Generating PDF from Web pages

  • Conversion options
  • Selection mode
  • Output control
  • Embedded media settings
  • Flash control

  Combining PDFs

  • Combine PDFs into single file
  • Combine PDFs into PDF Portfolio
  • Advantages of single files
  • Advantages of PDF Portfolio
  • PDF Portfolio deep dive

  Layout modes

  • Appending different media
  • Customising Portfolio
  • Home, index and list modes
  • Upload to Acrobat.com

  The Organiser

  • Explore the organiser
  • Favourite places
  • Exploring metadata
  • Network places

  Navigating

  • New customised toolbars
  • Reset workspace
  • Navigating views and pages
  • Keyboard shortcuts

  Editing and repurposing

  • Use the touch-up text tool
  • Change properties
  • RepurposeExport data from insi
  • Save out images
  • Document wide extraction
  • Conversion options

  Secure your PDF file

  • Different types of Acrobat security
  • Security Policies
  • Applying security and testing
  • Password and permissions restrictions
  • Removing security
  • Acrobat 8.2.3 security implications

  Optimise your PDF file

  • Check for file content
  • Reduce image size and compression
  • Edit font embedding and remove metadata
  • Flatten forms fields, remove comments

  Acrobat.com

  • Hosted Adobe service
  • Connect as repository
  • Product overview
  • Creating a user account
  • Remote presentations
  • Gaining control of users desktop
  • Chat and communication pods
  • Adobe Buzzword
  • File Manager and uploading

  Adobe PDF Forms generation

  • Generating a simple PDF (Acro) Form
  • Discussing Adobe Livecycle Designer
  • Examples of Form field recognition
  • Understanding form field types
  • Recycle fields across documents
  • Repeating fields and form logic
  • Naming fields and workflow considerations
  • Form logic and validation
  • Using simplified field notation
  • Mandatory form entry and options
  • Sending a forms workflow message
  • Configure the reset, print and submit buttons
  • Personal or workgroup form distribution
  • Submitting and saving data with Adobe Reader
  • Using the forms tracker
  • Adobe Reader Extensions
  • Collecting data and analysis
  • Filtering and sorting results
  • Response file and PDF Portfolio
  • Merging older responses into current
  • Exporting to CSV and XML

  Playing Adobe Flash inside Acrobat

  • Embed FLV and SWF files into Acrobat
  • Benefits of Adobe Flash runtime
  • Conversion and viewing options
  • Managing Flash content inside of Acrobat

  Digital Signatures

  • Creating a password driven digital signature
  • Creating a signature appearance
  • Siging and document – visibly and invisible
  • Exchanging digital signatures
  • Creating trusted identities
  • Applying security policies with trusted identities

  Stamp customisation

  • Making a signature stamp
  • Configure user preferences for stamps
  • Printing and flattening stamps

  Send for Shared Review

  • On-line workflow
  • Sending a shared review invite
  • Connecting to shared server
  • Adding and manipulating comments
  • Collaborate Live on the same page
  • Shared Tracker Review

  Collaborate Live

  • Send for shared review
  • use acrobat.com hosting
  • Collaborate together within page
  • Shared panel options
  • Combined input

  Previewing content

  • Headers/footers and watermarks
  • Add heders and footers
  • Edit headers and footers
  • Transparency effects
  • Remove content

  PDF/X Standards for Publishing and Print**

  • PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3 and PDF/X-4 standards
  • Adobe PDF Print Engine

  Configure Adobe Acrobat

  • Page box geometry
  • Overprint preview
  • Page display options
  • Smooth line art

  Apply trapping

  • Integrate trapping
  • Trapping presets

  Output Preview

  • Simulation Preview
  • Object Inspector
  • Density readings
  • Rich ink control
  • Overprinting objects

  Preflight and fixups

  • Preflight templates
  • Fix-ups options
  • Build your own fixup
  • Building profiles
  • Conversion to PDF/X
  • Conversion to PDF/A
  • Preflight and fix-ups droplets

  Convert colours

  • Conversion from one colour space
  • Tag objects with ICC pfofiles
  • Embed output intent

  Crop pages

  • Enlarge PDF page sizes
  • Configure page boxes
  • Trim, bleed, crop, media and crop box

  Fixing Hairlines

  • Increase vector strokes
  • Convey minimum stroke weights for Type3

  Flatten Transparency

  • Flatten live transparency
  • Preview and conversion settings
  • Transparency overview

  Accessibility from Microsoft Word

  • Setting document structure
  • Using styles and choosing fonts
  • Document Properties
  • Tables and lists

  PDF Maker options for reflow

  • Setting options
  • Importance of reflow
  • Metadata
  • PDF presets and options

  Accessibility checker

  • Checking the PDF for accessibility
  • Understanding most common problems
  • Fixing most common problems
  • Font mapping and device issues

  Adding and modifying tags / structure

  • Changing the reading order of a tagged document
  • Adding document structure to an untagged document
  • Adding alt tags to objects
  • Remapping to artifacts and other elements

  Read-aloud and scrolling inside Acrobat/Reader

  • Configure display options
  • Configure read-aloud options
  • Configure scrolling options