Acrobat represents the newest revolution in the war between paper and electronic documents. Arm yourself for the battle by learning how to create, edit, and manage your library of electronic PDF files. This course provides you with basic information needed to understand how Adobe Acrobat documents are created from standard desktop applications. You will convert Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and Excel spreadsheets to create electronic documents. Students will be introduced to the main methods of creating Adobe Acrobat PDF files then enhance those files using Adobe Acrobat, Acrobat Distiller, and Acrobat Catalog.

• To take advantage of Adobe Acrobat Professionals functionality to create effective business PDF's.

• Create PDF files from Microsoft applications

• Build documents

• Annotate and Edit documents

• Create internal and external Hyperlinks

• Insert sound and movies

Lesson 1: Before You Begin - Prerequisites - Getting Ready - Curriculum Overview - About The Manual - Chapter Overviews - Manual Conventions

 

Lesson 2: Acrobat Overview - The Acrobat Process - Acrobat Components - Acrobat Interface - Navigating Documents - Searching Documents - Changing View Magnification - Full Screen Display

 

Lesson 3: Creating PDF Files - The PDFWriter - Setting PDFWriter Properties - Arobat Distiller Print Driver - Manually Distilling a Document - Setting Watched Folders - Converting Spreadsheets and Presentations

 

Lesson 4: Building Documents - Combining PDFs - Cropping Pages - Creating Pages From Imported Images - Working with Thumbnails - Setting Document information - Working in Full Screen Mode - Viewing PDFs in a Browser

 

Lesson 5: Annotating and Editing Documents - Working with Text Content - Changing Text Attributes - Working with Objects - Annotations at a Glance - Note Annotations - Text Annotations - File Annotations - Stamp Annotations - Managing Annotations - Filtering Annotations - Summarizing Annotations - Printing Your Document

 

Lesson 6: Adding Navigation, Sound, and Movies - Bookmarks - Setting Actions - Hyperlinks - Navigating with Articles - Creating Articles - Inserting Sound and Movies