Acrobat X Essential Training

Demonstrates how to create, modify, review, and share PDFs in Adobe Acrobat X.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. Getting Started

• Opening documents and moving them around
• Working with the toolbars
• Working with the panels
• Customizing the toolbar with Quick Tools
• Using the Pages panel to navigate
• Selecting and copying text and graphics
• Rotating pages
• Changing the viewing options
• Reviewing preferences
• Finding words and phrases
• Searching a PDF and working with the Search panel
• Sharing PDFs by email and with Adobe SendNow

2. Creating PDFs

• Creating PDFs from Microsoft Office applications
• Creating PDFs from Creative Suite applications
• Creating PDFs from within Acrobat Pro
• Creating PDFs from a web site
• Creating PDFs from the clipboard

3. Editing PDF Content

• Editing text
• Adding text
• Editing images and graphics
• Changing the page number display
• Digitally signing PDFs
• Cropping pages and documents

4. Enhancing PDFs

• Adding watermarks
• Adding page backgrounds
• Adding page numbers
• Adding headers and footers
• Adding bookmarks
• Attaching files to a PDF
• Adding metadata
• Optimizing a PDF for file size and compatibility
• Creating initial view settings

5. Adding Rich Media and Interactivity

• Adding hyperlinks to URLs
• Creating links with the Link tool
• Working with interactive actions
• Creating and adding buttons
• Adding video, sound, and SWF files
• Adding page transitions

6. Combining and Rearranging PDFs

• Extracting pages
• Splitting a PDF into multiple files
• Inserting pages from files and other sources
• Moving, copying, and replacing pages
• Combining PDFs

7. Extracting and Converting Content

• Exporting text
• Exporting images
• Exporting PDFs to Microsoft Word
• Exporting PDFs to Microsoft Excel

8. Creating and Working with Portfolios

• Working with portfolios
• Creating portfolios
• Customizing portfolios
• Optimizing backward compatibility

9. Getting Started with Forms

• Creating an interactive form
• Working with form fields
• Editing field properties
• Distributing and collecting forms
• Enabling Reader to save form data

10. Working with Comments in PDFs

• Adding sticky notes and other annotations
• Using the drawing markup tools
• Viewing, filtering, and replying to comments
• Printing, summarizing, and exporting comments
• Exporting comments to Word for Windows
• Enabling extended commenting in Acrobat Reader

11. Managing PDF Reviews

• Understanding the different review processes
• Using the email review process
• Conducting a shared review with Acrobat.com
• Using the Review Tracker
• Using the Collaborate Live review process

12. Preflighting and Print Production

• Reviewing the print production tools
• Previewing color separations
• Using the Object Inspector to learn details
• Working with the Preflight dialog box
• Fixing hairlines
• Converting colors
• Saving as a standards-compliant PDF

13. Scanning and Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

• Scanning a paper document to PDF
• Setting up optimization options
• Recognizing text in a scanned PDF
• Reviewing and correcting OCR suspects

14. Automating Routine Tasks

• Using the built-in Actions for automation
• Editing Actions
• Creating new Actions
• Sharing Actions with others

15. Protecting and Securing PDFs

• Choosing a security method
• Password-protecting a PDF
• Securing a PDF with a certificate
• Creating a digital id
• Removing sensitive content with the Redaction feature
• Revealing and clearing hidden information

16. Adobe Reader X and Acrobat.com

• Opening and navigating PDFs in Reader
• Adding comments
• Viewing extended features
• Digitally signing a PDF
• Sharing PDFs
• Using Acrobat.com

Conclusion

• Final thoughts