State Employees: Training Classes for ND State Employees

Adobe Acrobat Professional

Prerequisite

Basic computer skills - use of mouse, keyboard, and understanding of Windows.

Chapter 1. Introducing Acrobat

• About Adobe PDF
• About Acrobat Standard and Acrobat Professional
• Adobe PDF on the World Wide Web
• Looking at some examples
• Designing documents for online viewing
• Using Organizer

Lesson 2. Getting to Know the Work Area

• Opening the work file
• Using the Acrobat tools, toolbars, and task buttons
• Using the navigation pane and tabs
• Using context menus
• About the onscreen display
• Setting up a work area
• Using the navigation controls in the status bar
• Following links
• Printing PDF files
• Opening the How To pages
• Linking to the online Help
• Navigating the How To pages
• Closing the How To pages
• Using the Complete Acrobat 7.0 Help

Lesson 3w. Converting Microsoft Office Files (windows)

• About PDFMaker
• Converting a Microsoft Word file to Adobe PDF
• Converting and emailing a PowerPoint presentation
• Converting an Excel document and starting a review
• Converting and attaching a file in Microsoft Outlook
• Converting web pages from Internet Explorer
• Exploring on your own: Exporting tables from PDF files
• Exploring on your own: Converting and combining multiple Office files
• Exploring on your own: Converting emails and email folders in Microsoft Outlook

Lesson 3m. Converting Microsoft Office Files (Mac OS)

• About PDFMaker
• Converting a Microsoft Word file to Adobe PDF
• Converting and emailing a PowerPoint presentation
• Tips on converting Excel files

Lesson 4. Converting Files to Adobe PDF

• About creating Adobe PDF files
• Creating an Adobe PDF file using the Create PDF command
• Converting and combining different types of files
• Using the Print command to create Adobe PDF files
• Searching a PDF file
• Exploring on your own: Dragging and dropping files
• Exploring on your own: Creating Adobe PDF from the context menu (Windows)

Lesson 5. Creating Adobe PDF from Web Pages

• Converting web pages to Adobe PDF
• Connecting to the web
• Setting options for converting web pages
• Creating an Adobe PDF file from a web page
• Updating converted web pages
• Building an Adobe PDF file of favorite web pages
• Converting web pages in Internet Explorer (Windows)

Lesson 6. Customizing Adobe PDF Output Quality

• Controlling Adobe PDF output quality
• About the Adobe PDF Settings
• Using the default Adobe PDF Settings
• About compression and resampling
• Using custom compression settings
• Reducing file size

Lesson 7. Modifying PDF Files

• Opening and examining the work file
• Moving pages with page thumbnails
• Editing Adobe PDF pages
• Editing links
• Inserting PDF files
• Looking at bookmarks
• Renumbering pages
• Adding sound
• Setting an opening view

Chapter 8. More on Editing PDF Files

• About this lesson
• Viewing the work file
• Looking at articles
• Editing text
• Copying text and images from a PDF file
• Acrobat 7.0 Professional: Editing Images using the TouchUp Object tool
• Converting a PDF page to an image format file
• Reducing the file size
• Exploring on your own: Using photo print sizes and layouts
• Exploring on your own: Optimizing for page-at-a-time downloading

Chapter 9. Making Documents Accessible and Flexible

• About this lesson
• About flexibility
• About accessibility
• About structure
• Looking at accessible documents
• Looking at the reading order
• Making files flexible and accessible
• Acrobat 7.0 Professional: Viewing the results of adding tags
• Using the Acrobat accessibility features

Lesson 10. Using Acrobat in a Document Review Cycle

• About the review process
• Opening the work file
• Working with comments
• Exporting and importing comments
• Setting the review status and replying to comments
• Marking up a document
• Summarizing comments
• Acrobat 7.0 Professional: Comparing two Adobe PDF documents
• Spell checking comments
• Printing documents with comments
• Acrobat 7.0 Professional: Inviting users of Adobe Reader to participate in reviews
• Exploring on your own: Custom stamps
• Exploring on your own: Email-based reviews

Lesson 11. Adding Signatures and Security

• Looking at your Security preferences
• Opening the work file
• Creating a digital ID
• Signing the advertisement
• Certifying a PDF file
• Signing a certified document
• Looking at security settings
• Adding security to your PDF files
• Exploring on your own: Using eEnvelopes

Lesson 12. Creating Multimedia Presentations

• Getting started
• Adding an interactive animation
• Adding a Show/hide field
• Adding a movie clip and controlling it with buttons
• Adding, aligning, and duplicating navigational buttons
• Adding a sound file and adding two actions to one button
• Creating page actions to control multimedia clips
• Creating page actions to start multimedia clips
• Opening a movie clip in a floating window
• Creating a full screen presentation with transitions
• Exploring on your own: Creating multimedia presentations

Lesson 13. Using Acrobat's Engineering and Technical Features

• Getting started
• Merging documents
• Enhanced navigation tools: Pan & Zoom
• Working with layers
• Using measuring tools
• Enhanced navigation tools: Loupe
• Preparing engineering documents for distribution
• Comparing documents
• Exploring on your own: Using Acrobat's technical features

Lesson 14. Creating PDF Forms

• Getting started
• Converting paper forms to PDF forms
• Adding text fields
• Adding special format restrictions
• Adding check boxes
• Creating a multi-line text field
• Adding radio buttons
• Adding print and reset buttons
• Creating a reset button
• Exporting form data
• Creating an electronic order form
• Adding combo boxes
• Duplicating fields
• Validating text/numeric fields
• Formatting a date field
• Adding a submit button
• Exploring on your own: Enhancing PDF forms

Lesson 15. Using Adobe Acrobat for Professional Publishing

• Getting started
• Creating PDF files for print & prepress
• Preflighting
• Layers
• Output preview
• Working with transparency
• Advanced printing controls
• Exploring on your own: Acrobat's prepress features

Lesson 16. Creating Forms with Adobe LiveCycle Designer

• Getting started
• Getting to know the work area
• Working with objects and palettes
• Changing views
• Building a new form
• Adding text to a form
• Adding graphics to a form
• Grouping Objects
• Adding content to the form body
• Creating a radio button
• Duplicating an object
• Adding and using Custom Library items
• Adding shapes
• Adding a drop-down list
• Creating a Submit button
• Previewing and exporting the form
• Exploring your own: Using Adobe Designer

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