Course Outline

• Creating Adobe PDF Files
• Combine a series of documents into a PDF package
• Create a PDF from a scan in Acrobat
• Reduce the file size of the finished PDF file
• Controlling navigation using links and bookmarks
• Examine the accessibility features

Adding Signatures and Security

• Create a digital ID that uses an image
• Digitally sign documents
• Verify a digital signature
• Certify a document
• Apply password protection to documents

Using Acrobat in a Review Cycle

• Review multiple ways to use Acrobat in a document review process
• Annotate a PDF with the Acrobat commenting and mark-up tools
• Work with comments, including exporting and importing comments, replying to comments, summarising comments

Working with Multimedia

• Add and embed movies and animations into PDF documents
• Add and embed sounds into PDF documents
• Control movies and sounds through buttons and page actions
• Add navigational tools to a presentation
• Control transitions and timing of presentations using full screen mode

Creating PDF Forms

• Create electronic PDF forms based on paper forms
• Add form fields including text, numbers, check boxes, and lists
• Validate and calculate form data
• Examine the forms distribution and management process

Using Acrobat in Professional Publishing

• Create Adobe PDF files suitable for high-resolution printing
• Preflight Adobe PDF files to check for quality and consistency
• Use layers from Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign
• Check how transparent objects impact a page