Adobe Acrobat 9 Masterclass 4 Days - London

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Adobe Acrobat 9: Visual Quick Start Guide

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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

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

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

Combining PDFs
-Combine PDFs into single file
-Combine PDFs into PDF Portfolio
-Advantages of single files
-Advantages of PDF Portfolio
-PDF Portfolio deep dive

Layout modes
-Appending different media
-Customising Portfolio
-Home, index and list modes
-Upload to Acrobat.com

The Organiser
-Explore the organiser
-Favourite places
-Exploring metadata
-Network places

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

Editing and repurposing
-Use the touch-up text tool
-Change properties
-RepurposeExport data from insi
-Save out images
-Document wide extraction
-Conversion options

Secure your PDF file
-Different types of Acrobat security
-Security Policies
-Applying security and testing
-Password and permissions restrictions
-Removing security
-Acrobat 8.2.3 security implications

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

Acrobat.com
-Hosted Adobe service
-Connect as repository
-Product overview
-Creating a user account
-Remote presentations
-Gaining control of users desktop
-Chat and communication pods
-Adobe Buzzword
-File Manager and uploading

Adobe PDF Forms generation
-Generating a simple PDF (Acro) Form
-Discussing Adobe Livecycle Designer
-Examples of Form field recognition
-Understanding form field types
-Recycle fields across documents
-Repeating fields and form logic
-Naming fields and workflow considerations
-Form logic and validation
-Using simplified field notation
-Mandatory form entry and options
-Sending a forms workflow message
-Configure the reset, print and submit buttons
-Personal or workgroup form distribution
-Submitting and saving data with Adobe Reader
-Using the forms tracker
-Adobe Reader Extensions
-Collecting data and analysis
-Filtering and sorting results
-Response file and PDF Portfolio
-Merging older responses into current
-Exporting to CSV and XML

Playing Adobe Flash inside Acrobat
-Embed FLV and SWF files into Acrobat
-Benefits of Adobe Flash runtime
-Conversion and viewing options
-Managing Flash content inside of Acrobat

Digital Signatures
-Creating a password driven digital signature
-Creating a signature appearance
-Siging and document - visibly and invisible
-Exchanging digital signatures
-Creating trusted identities
-Applying security policies with trusted identities

Stamp customisation
-Making a signature stamp
-Configure user preferences for stamps
-Printing and flattening stamps

Send for Shared Review
-On-line workflow
-Sending a shared review invite
-Connecting to shared server
-Adding and manipulating comments
-Collaborate Live on the same page
-Shared Tracker Review

Collaborate Live
-Send for shared review
-use acrobat.com hosting
-Collaborate together within page
-Shared panel options
-Combined input

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

PDF/X Standards for Publishing and Print
-PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3 and PDF/X-4 standards
-Adobe PDF Print Engine

Configure Adobe Acrobat
-Page box geometry
-Overprint preview
-Page display options
-Smooth line art

Apply trapping
-Integrate trapping
-Trapping presets

Output Preview
-Simulation Preview
-Object Inspector
-Density readings
-Rich ink control
-Overprinting objects

Preflight and fixups
-Preflight templates
-Fix-ups options
-Build your own fixup
-Building profiles
-Conversion to PDF/X
-Conversion to PDF/A
-Preflight and fix-ups droplets

Convert colours
-Conversion from one colour space
-Tag objects with ICC pfofiles
-Embed output intent

Crop pages
-Enlarge PDF page sizes
-Configure page boxes
-Trim, bleed, crop, media and crop box

Fixing Hairlines
-Increase vector strokes
-Convey minimum stroke weights for Type3

Flatten Transparency
-Flatten live transparency
-Preview and conversion settings
-Transparency overview

Accessibility from Microsoft Word
-Setting document structure
-Using styles and choosing fonts
-Document Properties
-Tables and lists

PDF Maker options for reflow
-Setting options
-Importance of reflow
-Metadata
-PDF presets and options

Accessibility checker
-Checking the PDF for accessibility
-Understanding most common problems
-Fixing most common problems
-Font mapping and device issues

Adding and modifying tags / structure
-Changing the reading order of a tagged document
-Adding document structure to an untagged document
-Adding alt tags to objects
-Remapping to artifacts and other elements

Read-aloud and scrolling inside Acrobat/Reader
-Configure display options
-Configure read-aloud options
-Configure scrolling options

This course will be offered at the main XChange Training London training centre at:

5 St John’s Lane
Clerkenwell
London
EC1M 4BH

St John’s Lane is located in the heart of Clerkenwell close to the junction of Farringdon and Clerkenwell Road. Farringdon tube & train station is a few minutes away and the office can also be accessed from Chancery Lane and Barbican tubes in about 10 minutes.

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 London

Tel: 0845 363 1130
Email: info@xchangetraining.co.uk

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