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Adobe Acrobat 8 Masterclass - Glasgow

This scheduled course is designed to cover all the essentials needed for those requiring an Acrobat workflow in their role including the basics and advanced features of Acrobat with 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
-Modify PDF documents
-Add PDF navigation aids
-Work with multiple PDF documents
-Review PDF documents
-Understand the concept of Acrobat Connect
-Optimise their PDFs for the Web
-Combine documents in a Package
-Configure and send PDFs for review remotely
-Create a PDF form and submit
-Electronically sign a PDF file
-Digital Signatures
-Troubleshooting

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Adobe Acrobat 8 training at XChangeTraining
 

Price:
£495
 

Duration:
2 Days
 

Course Location:
Central Glasgow
 

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Adobe Acrobat 8: Visual Quick Start Guide
  Price listed is per delegate and excludes VAT.
 
 

XChange Training limit class size (4-8 delegates max) to ensure an excellent quality of training is provided so courses can fill up quickly. Please book up early to guarantee your place.
 
 
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Adobe Acrobat 8 Masterclass - Glasgow Outline

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
-Archiving with Microsoft Outlook

Acrobat Distiller the creation engine
-Create low and high quality PDFs
-Impact of resolution and font embedding
-PDF versioning

Generating PDF from Web pages
-Conversion options
-Output control
-Embedded media settings
-Flash control

Combine into PDF or package
-Combine PDFs into single file
-Combine PDFs into PDF Package
-Advantages of single files
-Advantages of PDF packages

Creating PDF from image formats
-Direct conversion from explorer
-Conversion options and file formats
-Considerations
-Image compression factors

The Organiser for your documents
-Explore the organiser
-Favourite places
-Exploring metadata
-Network places
-Previewing content

Headers/footers and watermarks
-Add heders and footers
-Edit headers and footers
-Transparency effects
-Remove content

Navigating from within Acrobat
-New customised toolbars
-Reset workspace
-Navigating views and pages
-Keyboard shortcuts

Forms Introduction
-Forms basics
-Auto forms recognition
-Adding submit button

Editing and converting Text
-Use the touch-up text tool to amend text
-Change properties
-Repurpose

Export data from inside a PDF
-Save out text
-Save out images
-Document wide extraction
-Conversion options

Optimise your PDF file
-Check for file content
-Reduce image size and compression
-Edit font embedding and remove metadata
-Flatten forms fields, remove comments

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RedAct your files - quickly
-Remore both text and image content
-Permanent removal through manual or search criteria
-Applying RedAction codes
-Considerations

Secure your PDF file
-Different types of Acrobat security
-Security Policies
-Applying security and testing
-Removing security

Adobe Acrobat Connect
-Product overview
-Creating a user account
-Remote presentations
-Gaining control of users desktop
-White board tools
-Chat and communication pods

Enhancing metadata control for the web
-Acrobat metadata
-Editing course file metadata
-Web considerations
-PDF versioning with search engines

Combining documents
-Conversion options for native documents
-Recycle content
-Differents between multi-page and PDF Packages
-PDF versioning

Send for Review on-line workflow
-Deploy external location for comments
-Network topologies
-Sending a shared review invite
-Connecting to shared server
-Adding and manipulating comments
-Shared Tracker Review
-Synchronisation outside of Acrobat

Forms workflow with the free Adobe Reader
-Generating a simple PDF (Acro) Form
-Adding a submit button
-Examples of Form recognition
-Sending a forms workflow message
-Submitting and saving data with Adobe Reader
-Collecting data and analysis

Digital Signatures
-Creating a password drive digital signature
-Creating a signature appearance
-Signing and document - visibly and invisible
-Examples of third party solutions
-Exchanging digital signatures
-Creating trusted identities
-Applying security policies with trusted identities

Acrobat plugins
-Exploring how plugins work
-Enabling and disabling
-Plugin framwork

Editing Objects inside Acrobat
-Place images
-Scale and rotate
-Crop and flip
-Cut, paste and move
-Colour convert objects
-Integration with Adobe Photoshop
-Integration with Adobe Illustrator

Editing and converting Text
-Amend text, change properties and re-purpose
-Create new text

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Course Target Audience and delegate prerequisites

This course is intended for professionals who plan to use Adobe Acrobat 8 for working with PDF files as part of their workflow.

Ahead of taking this course the trainee must have basic PC or Mac skills and a grounding of experience with common office applications such as spreadsheets, word processors and web browsers.


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Location information for this scheduled course

This course will be offered at the XChange Training scheduled training offices in Glasgow at:

George House
36 North Hanover Street
Glasgow
G1 2AD

George House is located just off George Square in the centre of Glasgow and has good links to Glasgow Queen Street train station.

Courses are run between 10am and 5pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks.

  

Training Centre address
Central Glasgow

Tel: + 44 (0)20 7490 4455
Email: info@xchangetraining.co.uk
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Advantages of learning Adobe Acrobat 8 with XChange Training

-XChange Training is an Adobe Certified Training Centre
-Our Acrobat 8 trainers are experienced print and design professionals with excellent knowledge off all aspects of print workflows from creating artwork to guaranteeing successful output.
-XChange training focuses on real tasks that reflect how the software is used in professional situations.
-Free Course manual provided for each trainee as excellent post-course reference material.
-Free email support service for 6 months after course included in the price.
-We get consistently good feedback from our clients.

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Contacting XChange Training

To Book a course simply click on the link below to book online or contact us by email or phone.

Email: info@xchangetraining.co.uk

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Tel: + 44 (0)20 7490 4455
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