Category: Web/DTP

Cost: $310

Course Summary:

Learn PDF basics and explore the Acrobat interface. Navigate and organize PDF documents. Create a PDF document from within Acrobat, and other applications and create documents from the Web. Learn to modify PDF content by rearranging, editing, and formatting existing text, and adding headers & footers. Learn to manage security issues, and much more.

Prerequisite: Intro to Windows or Macintosh OS or equivalent.

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Course Topics: Acrobat - Part I

Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro - Part One

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Category: Web/DTP

Cost: $310

Course Summary:

Learn to produce high-quality PDF documents for press. Discover geospatial data in a PDF map. Learn prepress techniques including color management, proofing and converting colors, color separations, managing inks, trapping, and transparency flattening. Discover the Preflight feature to test and convert a document to comply with print provider requirements. Learn to create interactive forms. Distribute PDF documents and forms, and compile form data returned from users.

Prerequisite: Acrobat - Part I or equivalent.

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Course Topics: Acrobat - Part II

Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro - Part Two

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Acrobat Part I - Course Topics

Getting started

• The Acrobat environment
• Advanced navigation
• Finding text
• Organizing PDF documents
• Getting help
• Setting preferences

Creating PDF documents

• Printing to PDF from any application
• Acrobat PDFMaker
• The Create PDF commands

Modifying PDF documents

• Moving document pages
• Modifying content
• Moving PDF content to other programs
• Adding multimedia
• Optimizing PDF file size

Document navigation tools

• Working with Bookmarks
• Working with links

PDF accessibility

• Accessible documents
• Accessibility in the Acrobat environment

Document security

• Password protection
• Digital signatures
• Encryption certification and security envelopes
• Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management ES encryption
• Password and certificate security policies

Document review techniques

• Document reviews
• Reviewer tools
• Manipulate comments and markups

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Acrobat Part II - Course Topics

High-quality PDFs

• PDF generation methods
• PDF file attributes
• PDF settings
• Geospatial data

Color management

• Color management basics
• Color management workflow
• Soft proofing colors
• Converting colors

Color separations

• Color separation setup
• Separations preview
• Ink Manager
• Trapping
• Transparency flattening
• Printing color separations

Preflight and validation

• Print problems
• Preflight profiles
• Preflight reports
• Preflight droplets
• Validation and conversion

Interactive PDF forms

• Forms and Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES
• Creating a form
• Working with form fields
• Modifying a form
• Testing a form

PDF distribution and management

• PDF distribution
• Form management

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Acrobat Part I

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