Description
Course Overview
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 (Essential) and then a separate 1-day block (Advanced) taken at a later date.
Who Should Attend?
This course is intended for professionals from any field who plan to use Acrobat to create, edit, or distribute PDFs.
Prerequisites
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. You can install TRIAL here: Adobe.com.
You will receive a comprehensive course manual for this class selected by the Adobe Certified Instructors at Sharingbasics. A certificate is issued upon course completion.
How online training works?
Most regularly scheduled online training classes start at 10AM – 2PM (4hours) / 10-5 PM (7 Hours). Upon your class registration, you will receive a web address and code to log-in and participate in your training. You may always call a training consultant at +6013-9337594 or whatsapp if you have questions.
Private & Customized Training
Custom classes and private training are available online and can be arranged to accommodate your schedule. Call a training consultant at +6013-9337594 or email here to discuss details for private online training classes or complete our contact form here.
HRD Corp Reimbursement (if applicable):
HRD Corp – Training is claimable under Pembangunan Sumber Manusia Berhad (PSMB) through SBL / SBL KHAS Scheme.
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
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
- 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
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
Location Details
Online Class
This course is provided as a remote online course with live training provided by our Certified Trainer.
Accessing the live online course, anywhere is easy and all you will need is:
- Computer with the trial or full version of the software
- Separate screen or device for the shared video display
- Sound output via computer or headset
- Ideally a camera and microphone on the computer for remote contact
Our goal is for you to be able to create simple but professional documents that are ready to use for the web and for print.
It is important to note this is not a classroom based training.
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