Adobe Acrobat Pro DC Essentials Introduction 1 Day

Learn the basics of the leading document-publishing program. Our introduction will show you the first steps in creating, combining, and sharing PDFs. This is an essential starting point for anyone interested in document publishing, particularly for those working in a corporate environment.

We will show you how quick and easy it is to create documents for the web and for print, using programs you already know, such as Word and PowerPoint. You will learn how to enhance your documents with navigation aids as well as how to secure your content via password-protection and other such measures.

This course acts as an ideal way to get used to a program that is key to businesses across the world.

Course Details

This 1-day Essentials course helps you learn the core aspects of working with Acrobat, including best practices for creating, combining, and sharing PDF documents.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Access information in a PDF document
• Create PDFs from Microsoft Office programs and from web pages
• Combine and modify PDFs
• Add PDF navigation aids
• Work with multiple PDFs
• Review PDFs
• Protect PDFs with passwords and other security measures

Our goal is for you to understand how Acrobat is used to create, modify, and protect PDFs.

Course Target Audience and Delegate Prerequisites:

This course is intended for professionals from any field who plan to use Acrobat to create, edit, or distribute PDFs.You will need basic PC or Mac skills, including a solid understanding of a computer's operating system (Windows or Mac OS).

You will also need to know how to launch a program, create and save files, and copy files from CDs and other media. Finally, you will need basic experience in using common office applications such as spreadsheets, word processors, and web browsers.

Full Course Outline

The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.

Overview of Acrobat Family

• Understanding the product line-up

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
• Repurpose Export data
• 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 security implications