This class is for people who need to learn the essential fundamental aspects of working with Acrobat and producing pdf files. No prior eperience is necessary though people with some prior experience may also be interested in attending.

This course gives users the skills they need to work efficiently with the components of Adobe Acrobat software, including PDF Writer and Acrobat Distiller. Both static and interactive pdf files will be explored and produced.

Familiarity with Windows.

About Adobe PDF and Acrobat
Adobe PDF on the World Wide Web
Looking at some samples
Designing documents for online viewing

Getting to Know the Work Area
Opening the work file
Using Acrobat tools
Customizing Toolbars
Using Acrobat palettes
Using Context Menus
About on-screen display
Navigating the Document
Following links
Using Adobe Online and Acrobat Online Help

Creating Adobe PDF Files
Using Fonts
About PDF documents
About Acrobat Distiller
Using an Application's Print command
Creating PDF from a text file
Editing text in a PDF file
Changing the Distiller Job Options
Adding Security to PDF Files
Converting Paper Documents to PDF

Customizing Adobe PDF

Output Quality
Controlling PDF output quality
About compressing and resampling
Using default compression settings
Using custom compression settings
Managing Color in Distiller
Using watched folders

Putting Documents Online
Viewing the work file
Setting an opening view
Looking at bookmarks and links
Adding bookmarks
Looking at articles
Replacing a page
Looking at online document design

Modifying the PDF Files
Opening and examining the work file
Editing pages
Editing text and images
Using links and bookmarks to play actions
Copying text from a PDF file
Converting a PDF file to a image format file

Using Acrobat in a Document Review Cycle
Opening the work file

Creating Forms
Working with forms online
Adding form fields
Calculating form fields
Creating a Reset Form field
Submitting forms over the Web
Filling out the fields
Using the fields palette

Creating Adobe PDF from Web Pages
Converting Web pages to PDF
Configuring your internet or proxy settings
Setting options for converting Web pages
Creating a PDF file from a Web page
Updating converted Web pages
Building an Adobe PDF file of favorite Web pages

Designing Online Documents
Looking at design elements in online documents
Creating an online document
Creating eBooks

Enhancing a Multimedia Project
Opening the work file
Adding multiple actions to a button
Creating special effects with buttons
Managing Color
Color Management: An Overview
Managing color in Acrobat
Preview overprinting
Managing color at print time
Distributing Document Collections

Distributing PDF documents
Preparing a Welcome document
Setting a opening view for the document collection
Organizing the staging area
Optimizing for page-at-a-time downloading
Indexing your document collection
Adding Acrobat Reader installers
Testing your document collection
Double-checking the checklist

Building a Searchable PDF Library and Catalog
Building an index
Searching an index
Using Document info fields in a search
Searching with Boolean expressions
Searching on the Web
Choosing Catalog options
Exploring on your own