Acrobat X Pro

2 day course
Days:
2
Prerequisites: Windows 7: Basic or equivalent experience
Description:
The first day will teach students fundamental concepts and terminology, and the basic
features of Adobe Acrobat X Pro. Students will learn PDF basics and explore the Acrobat interface. They'll
learn how to navigate and organize PDF documents. Students will learn how to create a PDF document
from within Acrobat. They will also create PDF documents from within other applications, and create
documents from Web pages. Students will learn to modify PDF content by rearranging, editing, and
formatting existing text; and by adding headers, footers, watermarks, and backgrounds. They'll learn how
to insert multimedia content, including audio, video, and flash files. They'll add bookmarks and links, and
improve accessibility in a document. Students will learn to manage security issues by using password
encryption and digital signatures. They'll explore document review techniques, including the use of
comments, markups, and automated reviews, such as Page View Sharing and Collaborate Live. The second
day builds on the fundamentals taught in Acrobat X Pro: Basic. Students will learn how to produce highquality PDF documents for press. They will learn how to discover geospatial data in a PDF map. They will
learn prepress techniques including color management, proofing and converting colors, color separations,
managing inks, trapping, and transparency flattening. Students will use the Preflight feature to test and
convert a document to comply with print provider requirements or ISO 9000 standards such as PDF/X,
PDF/A, or PDF/E. Students will learn to create interactive forms using both the Form Editor as well as
LiveCycle Designer ES2. They will learn to distribute PDF documents and forms, and to compile form data
returned from users

II. Creating PDF documents

Day 1: Basic

Printing to PDF from any application

Creating a PDF file by using the Print command

I. Getting started
The Acrobat environment
Identifying the benefits of PDF documents
Exploring the Acrobat environment
Viewing and navigating a PDF document
Advanced navigation
Navigating with bookmarks
Navigating with links
Using split view
Finding text
Finding text by using the Find toolbar
Finding text by using the Search PDF window
Finding text by using OCR
Getting help
Finding information
Setting preferences
Setting Acrobat application preferences

Acrobat PDFMaker
Using PDFMaker within Word
The Create PDF commands
Combining multiple documents in a PDF Portfolio
Managing PDF Portfolios
Creating a PDF document from a Web page
Discussing other Creative Suite applications

III. Modifying PDF documents

Moving document pages
Moving pages within a PDF document
Moving pages between PDF documents
Modifying content
Editing PDF document text
Formatting PDF document text
Inserting headers and footers
Inserting a watermark and background
Synchronizing page numbering
Creating a custom action

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Moving PDF content to other programs
Copying a graphic to another program
Adding multimedia
Adding a video file
Optimizing PDF file size
Optimizing a PDF file
Reducing file size

IV. Document navigation tools

Working with bookmarks
Testing automatically generated bookmarks
Adding a bookmark
Adding bookmarks from selected text
Modifying bookmark destinations
Arranging bookmarks
Formatting bookmarks
Working with links
Creating a link
Resizing and aligning links
Formatting text to look like a link
Creating links from selected text

Digital signatures
Creating a digital ID
Exporting a digital ID certificate file
Digitally signing a PDF document
Validating a signed document
Creating a blank digital signature field
Certifying a PDF document
Encryption certification and security
envelopes
Encrypting a PDF file by using a certificate
Creating a security envelope
Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management ES
encryption
Discussing Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management
ES encryption
Password and certificate security policies
Creating a password security policy
Applying a security policy

VII. Document review techniques

Document reviews
Discussing automated reviews

V. PDF accessibility
Accessible documents
Adding tags to a PDF document
Checking the accessibility of a PDF document
Fixing accessibility problems
Modifying a tagged documents reading order
Creating a new tagging structure

Reviewer tools
Adding notes
Specifying the reviewers author name
Adding drawing markups
Adding text markups
Adding a stamp

Accessibility in the Acrobat environment

Using the Accessibility Setup Assistant
Setting reading preferences

Managing comments and markups

Exporting comments and markups
Importing comments from multiple reviewers
Navigating comments from multiple reviewers
Creating a comment summary PDF file

VI. Document security

Password protection
Setting a Document Open password
Setting a Permissions password

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Trapping
Discussing trapping
Applying a trap preset

Day 2 Advanced

I.

High-quality PDFs

Transparency flattening
Comparing distilled and exported PDF
transparency
Previewing flattening

PDF generation methods

Discussing prepress issues
Discussing prepress methods
PDF file attributes
Selecting an appropriate default setting
PDF settings
Setting general options
Setting image options
Setting font embedding options
Saving new settings as a custom settings file
Geospatial data
Locating geospatial data

IV. Preflight and validation

Print problems
Discussing potential print problems
Discussing industry standards
Preflight profiles
Preflighting with a predefined profile
Creating a custom preflight profile

II. Color management

Color management basics
Discussing color management
Setting color preferences for untagged images
Color management workflow
Choosing a color management workflow
Applying color settings for PDF conversion
Soft-proofing colors
Simulating printer output on-screen

Preflight reports
Managing preflight results
Preflight droplets
Creating a preflight droplet
Validation and conversion
Ensuring PDF/X compliance

V. Interactive PDF forms

Forms and LiveCycle Designer ES2
Discussing PDF forms
Customizing LiveCycle Designer ES2

Converting colors
Converting to CMYK

III. Color separations

Color separation setup
Discussing color separations
Adjusting box sizes and adding printers marks
Fixing hairlines
Separations preview
Previewing separations
Displaying color warnings
Ink Manager
Managing inks

Printing color separations

Printing process color and spot color
separations

Creating a form
Using Form Editing mode
Creating a form
Inserting an image
Adding a text object
Adding guidelines

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Working with form fields
Adding a custom object
Modifying a custom object
Inserting a text field
Inserting radio buttons
Inserting check boxes
Inserting a drop-down list
Inserting a button
Modifying a form
Aligning objects
Sizing fields to match
Changing form object properties
Testing a form
Previewing a form
Filling out a form

VI. PDF distribution and management

PDF distribution
Protecting sensitive information
Processing a PDF document
Exporting a PDF document
Enabling usage rights
Form management
Distributing a form
Compiling form data

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