Course Content

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
• RepurposeExport data from insi
• 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 8.2.3 security implications

Optimise your PDF file

• Check for file content
• Reduce image size and compression
• Edit font embedding and remove metadata
• Flatten forms fields, remove comments

Acrobat.com

• Hosted Adobe service
• Connect as repository
• Product overview
• Creating a user account
• Remote presentations
• Gaining control of users desktop
• Chat and communication pods
• Adobe Buzzword
• File Manager and uploading

Adobe PDF Forms generation

• Generating a simple PDF (Acro) Form
• Discussing Adobe Livecycle Designer
• Examples of Form field recognition
• Understanding form field types
• Recycle fields across documents
• Repeating fields and form logic
• Naming fields and workflow considerations
• Form logic and validation
• Using simplified field notation
• Mandatory form entry and options
• Sending a forms workflow message
• Configure the reset, print and submit buttons
• Personal or workgroup form distribution
• Submitting and saving data with Adobe Reader
• Using the forms tracker
• Adobe Reader Extensions
• Collecting data and analysis
• Filtering and sorting results
• Response file and PDF Portfolio
• Merging older responses into current
• Exporting to CSV and XML

Playing Adobe Flash inside Acrobat

• Embed FLV and SWF files into Acrobat
• Benefits of Adobe Flash runtime
• Conversion and viewing options
• Managing Flash content inside of Acrobat

Digital Signatures

• Creating a password driven digital signature
• Creating a signature appearance
• Siging and document – visibly and invisible
• Exchanging digital signatures
• Creating trusted identities
• Applying security policies with trusted identities

Stamp customisation

• Making a signature stamp
• Configure user preferences for stamps
• Printing and flattening stamps

Send for Shared Review

• On-line workflow
• Sending a shared review invite
• Connecting to shared server
• Adding and manipulating comments
• Collaborate Live on the same page
• Shared Tracker Review

Collaborate Live

• Send for shared review
• use acrobat.com hosting
• Collaborate together within page
• Shared panel options
• Combined input

Previewing content

• Headers/footers and watermarks
• Add heders and footers
• Edit headers and footers
• Transparency effects
• Remove content

PDF/X Standards for Publishing and Print**

• PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3 and PDF/X-4 standards
• Adobe PDF Print Engine

Configure Adobe Acrobat

• Page box geometry
• Overprint preview
• Page display options
• Smooth line art

Apply trapping

• Integrate trapping
• Trapping presets

Output Preview

• Simulation Preview
• Object Inspector
• Density readings
• Rich ink control
• Overprinting objects

Preflight and fixups

• Preflight templates
• Fix-ups options
• Build your own fixup
• Building profiles
• Conversion to PDF/X
• Conversion to PDF/A
• Preflight and fix-ups droplets

Convert colours

• Conversion from one colour space
• Tag objects with ICC pfofiles
• Embed output intent

Crop pages

• Enlarge PDF page sizes
• Configure page boxes
• Trim, bleed, crop, media and crop box

Fixing Hairlines

• Increase vector strokes
• Convey minimum stroke weights for Type3

Flatten Transparency

• Flatten live transparency
• Preview and conversion settings
• Transparency overview

Accessibility from Microsoft Word

• Setting document structure
• Using styles and choosing fonts
• Document Properties
• Tables and lists

PDF Maker options for reflow

• Setting options
• Importance of reflow
• Metadata
• PDF presets and options

Accessibility checker

• Checking the PDF for accessibility
• Understanding most common problems
• Fixing most common problems
• Font mapping and device issues

Adding and modifying tags / structure

• Changing the reading order of a tagged document
• Adding document structure to an untagged document
• Adding alt tags to objects
• Remapping to artifacts and other elements

Read-aloud and scrolling inside Acrobat/Reader

• Configure display options
• Configure read-aloud options
• Configure scrolling options