Adobe Acrobat XI Introduction Masterclass 2 Day - London
Key Course Details:
Level:
Introduction to Intermediate
Duration:
2
Days - 10am to 5pm
Price:
£450 + vat
Go from being a novice to mastering the advanced tasks in the leading document-publishing program. Join us as we show you how to take charge and become an Acrobat power user. Get the edge as you build PDFs, design forms, gather data, and more.
We will guide you on everything from getting started by creating a simple PDF and controlling the Acrobat environment all the way up to distributing interactive forms to your coworkers and customers. With our help, you will become confident in using the advanced features of Adobe's flagship program to produce business-class documents that work perfectly on the web and in print.
Go from being a novice to mastering the advanced tasks in the leading document-publishing program. Join us as we show you how to take charge and become an Acrobat power user. Get the edge as you build PDFs, design forms, gather data, and more.
We will guide you on everything from getting started by creating a simple PDF and controlling the Acrobat environment all the way up to distributing interactive forms to your coworkers and customers. With our help, you will become confident in using the advanced features of Adobe's flagship program to produce business-class documents that work perfectly on the web and in print.
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Acrobat XI Masterclass 2 Day
Course Details
This 2-day Masterclass course helps you gain an all-round view of Acrobat, including best practices for creating, combining, optimising, securing, and sharing PDF documents.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:- Access information in a PDF document
- Create PDFs from Microsoft Office programs and from web pages
- Combine and modify PDFs
- Add PDF navigation aids
- Work with multiple PDFs
- Review PDFs
- Generate PDF forms that include logic and input validation
- Collect and analyse form data
- Optimise PDFs with measures including image compression
- Protect PDFs with passwords and other security measures
Our goals are for you to gain a comprehensive understanding of how Acrobat is used to create, modify, protect, and optimise PDFs, and how you can collaborate with and gather data from your users.
This course can be taken in a single 2-day block or split into a 1-day block (Introduction) and then a separate 1-day block (Advanced) taken at a later date.
Course Target Audience and delegate prerequisites:
This course is intended for professionals from any field who plan to use Acrobat to create, edit, or distribute PDFs.
You will need basic PC or Mac skills, including a solid understanding of a computer's operating system (Windows or Mac OS). You will also need to know how to launch a program, create and save files, and copy files from CDs and other media. Finally, you will need basic experience in using common office applications such as spreadsheets, word processors, and web browsers. -
Full Course 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
- Generate PDFs from Microsoft Office
- The PDF Maker
- Embedding bookmarks, TOC, links
- Powerpoint to PDF presentations
- HTML pages to PDF
- Create low and high quality PDFs
- Impact of resolution and font embedding
- PDF versioning
- Conversion options
- Selection mode
- Output control
- Embedded media settings
- Flash control
- Combine PDFs into single file
- Combine PDFs into PDF Portfolio
- Advantages of single files
- Advantages of PDF Portfolio
- PDF Portfolio deep dive
- Appending different media
- Customising Portfolio
- Home, index and list modes
- Upload to Acrobat.com
- Explore the organiser
- Favourite places
- Exploring metadata
- Network places
- New customised toolbars
- Reset workspace
- Navigating views and pages
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Use the touch-up text tool
- Change properties
- Repurpose Export data
- 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 security implications
- Check for file content
- Reduce image size and compression
- Edit font embedding and remove metadata
- Flatten forms fields, remove comments
- 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
- Generating a simple PDF (Acro) Form
- 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
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Location Details
This course is provided at the XChange Training London training centre based at:
5 St John’s Lane
Clerkenwell
London
EC1M 4BHSt John’s Lane is located in the heart of Clerkenwell close to the junction of Farringdon and Clerkenwell Road. Farringdon tube & train station is just a few minutes away and the training centre can also be accessed from Chancery Lane and Barbican tubes in about 10 minutes. There is also easy direct access by bus from Waterloo (243) and West End (55) with nearby stops.
Daily course times run between 10am and 4:30pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks. We recommend arrival at 9.45am for registration on the first day of the course.
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