Acrobat X Level 1 beginner class
Course Description:

This course covers Adobe Acrobat X Professional for designers, developers, and business users. Each lesson reviews step-by-step instructions on how to perform the most common tasks in Adobe Acrobat. The team at AMT will show you how to create high-quality PDF documents and fillable forms, combine a wide variety of content into rich media portfolios, collaborate effectively through electronic reviews, easily share your work across multiple platforms and devices, and speed up your production and business task workflow.This class will empower you to use the Adobe PDF format for more than just printing.

This class is geared for those just starting out with PDFs, or those who want to learn more about security or collaboration tools within Acrobat. This includes individuals who work in print, web and multimedia. Experience with Microsoft Office is a plus for this class.

Some features in Adobe Acrobat X Professional are for Windows users only, but we offer the class for both Mac and PC users.

Acrobat X Level 1 beginner class
Course Outline

Lesson 1: Introducing Adobe Acrobat X

• About Adobe PDF
• About Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe PDF on the web
• A first look at the work area
• Viewing PDF presentations in Full Screen mode
• Designing documents for online viewing
• Getting help

Lesson 2: Exploring the Work Area

• Opening a PDF file
• Working with Acrobat tools and toolbars
• Working with Acrobat task panes
• Customizing the Quick Tools toolbar
• Using keyboard shortcuts to select tools
• Navigating PDF documents

Lesson 3: Creating Adobe PDF Files

• About creating Adobe PDF files
• Using the Create PDF command
• Dragging and dropping files
• Converting and combining different types of files
• Using PDFMaker
• Using the Print command to create Adobe PDF files/li>
• Reducing file size
• About compression and resampling
• Scanning a paper document
• Making scanned text editable and searchable
• Converting emails to PDF (Windows Only)
• Converting web pages to Adobe PDF

Lesson 4: Reading and Working with PDF Files

• Changing the opening view
• About the onscreen display
• Reading PDF documents
• Searching PDF documents
• Printing PDF documents
• Filling out PDF forms
• About flexibility, accessibility, and structure
• Working with accessible documents
• Making files flexible and accessible
• Using the Acrobat accessibility features
• Sharing PDF files

Lesson 5: Using Acrobat with Microsoft Office Files (Windows Only)

• About Acrobat PDFMaker
• Converting Microsoft Word files to Adobe PDF
• Converting Excel documents and starting a review
• Converting PowerPoint presentations
• Converting web pages from Internet Explorer
• Converting web pages from Internet Explorer
• Saving PDF files as Word documents
• Extracting PDF tables as Excel spreadsheets

Lesson 6: Enhancing and Editing PDF Documents

• Examining the work file
• Moving pages with page thumbnails
• Editing Adobe PDF pages
• Renumbering pages
• Editing links
• Working with bookmarks
• Adding multimedia files
• Editing text
• Copying text and images from a PDF file
• Setting document properties and metadata

Lesson 7: Combining Files in PDF Portfolios

• About PDF Portfolios
• Creating a PDF Portfolio
• Customizing your PDF Portfolio
• Sharing your PDF Portfolio
• Securing a PDF Portfolio
• Searching a PDF Portfolio

Lesson 8: Adding Signatures and Security

• Viewing documents in Protected Mode (Windows only)
• About security
• Viewing security settings
• Adding security to PDF files
• About digital signatures
• Creating digital signatures
• Signing a document digitally
• Modifying signed documents
• Certifying PDF files
• Signing certified documents
• Exploring on your own: Using security envelopes

Lesson 9: Using Acrobat in a Review Cycle

• About the review process
• Adding comments to a PDF document
• About the commenting tools
• Working with comments
• Initiating a shared review
• Exploring on your own: Initiating live collaboration

Lesson 10: Working with Forms in Acrobat

• Converting PDF files to interactive PDF forms
• Adding form fields
• Distributing forms
• Collecting form data
• Working with form data
• Exploring on your own: Calculating and validating numeric fields

Lesson 11: Using Actions

• About actions
• Using predefined actions
• Creating an action
• Sharing actions

Lesson 12: Using the Legal Features

• Legal features in Adobe Acrobat X
• About Bates numbering and redaction
• Applying Bates numbering
• Defining Bates numbering
• Editing Bates numbering
• Applying redaction
• Changing the appearance of redactions
• Searching text for redaction
• Assembling PDF documents
• Marking redactions across multiple pages

Lesson 13: Using Acrobat in Professional Printing

• Creating PDF files for print and prepress
• Preflighting files (Acrobat Pro)
• Working with transparency (Acrobat Pro)
• Setting up color management
• Previewing your print job (Acrobat Pro)
• Advanced printing controls

Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class.

Acrobat X level 2 advanced class
Course Description:

This class is directed towards Acrobat users and publishing professionals with a basic working knowledge of Acrobat. The focus of this class is on some of the finer points of desktop publishing with Acrobat including creation of interactive documents.

Acrobat X level 2 advanced class
Course Outline:

Lesson 1. Working with Styles

• Creating and applying paragraph styles
• Creating and applying character styles
• Nesting character styles inside paragraph styles
• Creating and applying object styles
• Creating and applying table and cell styles
• Globally updating styles
• Loading styles from another document

Lesson 2. Importing and Modifying Graphics

• Adding graphics from other programs
• Comparing vector and bitmap graphics
• Managing links to imported files
• Updating revised graphics
• Adjusting display quality
• Working with clipping paths
• Working with alpha channels
• Importing native Adobe graphics files
• Using a library to manage objects
• Using Adobe Bridge to import graphics

Lesson 3. Creating Tables

• Converting text to a table
• Formatting a table
• Creating a header row
• Adding graphics to table cells
• Creating and applying table and cell styles

Lesson 4. Working with Transparency

• Importing and colorizing a grayscale image
• Applying transparency settings
• Adjusting transparency settings for EPS images
• Adding transparency effects
• Importing and adjusting Illustrator files that use transparency
• Applying transparency settings to text
• Working with effects

Lesson 5. Output and Exporting

• Preflighting files
• Packaging files
• Creating an Adobe PDF proof
• Previewing separations
• Previewing how transparency effects will be flattened
• Previewing the page
• Printing a laser or inkjet proof
• Using the Ink Manager

Lesson 6. Creating Rich Interactive Documents

• Setting up an online document
• Adding buttons, page transitions, and hyperlinks
• Exporting as Flash Player (SWF)
• Exporting as Adobe PDF (Interactive)
• Converting a print document for online use
• Adding advanced interactivity, animation, and video

Lesson 7. Working with Long Documents

• Starting a book
• Creating a running footer
• Adding a footnote
• Adding a cross-reference
• Synchronizing a book
• Generating a table of contents
• Indexing a book

Our outlines are a guide to the content covered on a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class.