Adobe Acrobat DC Essentials Introduction

This scheduled course is designed to give a core essentials introduction to working with Acrobat including best practices for creation, combining, distribution and sharing of PDF documents.

Upon successful completion of this course delegates will be able to:
-Access information in a PDF document
-Create PDF documents from Microsfot Office & Web pages
-Combine PDFs
-Modify PDF documents
-Add PDF navigation aids
-Work with multiple PDF documents
-Review PDF document

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

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