Acrobat Fundamentals: An Introduction to Acrobat XI

In this three-day course, you'll get an excellent overview of how to convert your work into Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) using Adobe Acrobat. You will learn to use Acrobat's cross-platform capabilities to distribute your documents efficiently without sacrificing the original design. You will learn how to incorporate text, notes, graphics, movies, and links to the Internet. You will gain an excellent understanding of the menu and tools in Acrobat and be able to use Acrobat at a high level of efficiency.

• Designing documents for online viewing
• Working with Acrobat tools, toolbars, and task buttons
• Creating Adobe PDF files
• Creating, customizing, and sharing a PDF Portfolio
• Reading, enhancing, and editing PDF documents
• Adding signatures and security
• Using Acrobat for collaborative review
• Working with forms in Acrobat
• Creating multimedia presentations
• Using the legal, engineering, and technical features of Acrobat
• Creating PDF files for print and prepress
• Working with 3D in PDF files

Professionals who need to produce superb PDF documents

• Practical working knowledge of Mac OS X 

Lesson 1: Introducing Adobe Acrobat

• About Adobe PDF
• About Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe PDF on the web
• A first look at the work area
• Viewing PDF presentations in Full Screen mode
• Designing documents for online viewing
• Getting help

Lesson 2: Looking at the Work Area

• Opening a PDF file in the work area
• Working with Acrobat tools and toolbars
• Working with Acrobat task buttons
• Working with the navigation pane
• Using Organizer

Lesson 3: Creating Adobe PDF Files

• About creating Adobe PDF files
• Using the Create PDF command
• Dragging and dropping files
• Converting and combining different types of files
• Using the Print command to create Adobe PDF files
• About the Adobe PDF Settings (presets)
• Reducing file size
• Compression and resampling
• Inserting multimedia files
• Scanning a paper document
• Converting e-mails to PDF
• Converting web pages to Adobe PDF
• Exploring on your own: Creating Adobe PDF from the context menu

Lesson 4: Combining Files in PDF Portfolios

• About PDF Portfolios
• Creating a PDF Portfolio
• Customizing your PDF Portfolio
• Sharing your PDF Portfolio
• Securing a PDF Portfolio
• Searching a PDF Portfolio

Lesson 5: Reading and Working with PDF Files

• Changing the opening view
• Onscreen display
• Reading PDF documents
• Searching PDF documents
• Printing PDF documents
• Filling out PDF forms
• About flexibility, accessibility, and structure
• Looking at accessible documents
• Making files flexible and accessible
• Adding tags
• Adding Alt Text (alternate text)
• Using the Acrobat accessibility features

Lesson 6: Enhancing and Editing PDF Documents

• Looking at the work file
• Moving pages with page thumbnails
• Editing Adobe PDF pages
• Editing links
• Inserting one PDF file into another PDF file
• Working with bookmarks
• Deleting a page
• Renumbering pages
• Editing and extracting text and images
• Editing images using the Touchup Object tool
• Converting PDF pages to image format files

Lesson 7: Adding Signatures and Security

• About digital signatures
• Creating digital signatures
• About security
• Looking at security settings
• Adding security to PDF files
• Adding passwords
• Certifying PDF files
• Signing certified documents

Lesson 8: Using Acrobat in a Review Cycle

• About the review process
• Adding comments to a PDF document
• About the commenting tools
• Working with comments

Lesson 9: Working with Forms in Acrobat

• Converting PDF files to interactive PDF forms
• Adding form fields
• Distributing forms
• Collecting form data
• Working with form data
• Exploring on your own: Calculating and validating numeric fields

Lesson 10: Creating Multimedia Presentations

• Adding a video file to a PDF file (Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended)
• Adding a Flash animation (Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended)
• Assigning a poster file for a video or animation (Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended)
• Creating a presentation

Lesson 11: Using the Legal Features

• About Bates numbering and redaction
• Applying Bates numbering
• Defining Bates numbering
• Editing Bates numbering
• Applying redaction
• Changing the Documents preferences
• Setting the Redaction tool properties
• Searching text for redaction
• Creating PDF Portfolios

Lesson 12: Using the Engineering and Technical Features

• Working with layers
• Using the Pan and Zoom tool
• Using the 2D measuring tools
• Using the Loupe tool
• Converting a drawing file to PDF (Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended)
• Permanently removing text from PDF documents
• Using the PDF Maps feature
• Geospatial registration (Acrobat Pro Extended)

Lesson 13: Using Acrobat in Professional Printing

• Creating PDF files for print and prepress
• Preflighting files (Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended)
• Working with transparency (Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended)
• Setting up color management
• Previewing your print job
• Advanced printing controls

Lesson 14: Working with 3D in PDF Files

• Working with 3D content in PDF files
• Reviewing and commenting on 3D models