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Computer Applications > Introduction to Adobe Acrobat 9
Everybody
knows what a PDF document is, right? It's a file that you print. If
that's all you've seen Acrobat do, you're in for a huge surprise! In
this course, you'll discover how to bring together a wide range of
content from dozens of programs that you can reuse and customize in
Acrobat 9 Pro. Need to change some text? No problem. Create a new file?
That's easy. Add a page from this file and an image from that file? Not
a big deal. This software allows you to do all that and more!
Bringing
together content is just the beginning. You'll work with many features,
such as backgrounds and bookmarks, to help unify your documents and add
navigation to guide your users. You'll see how to protect your work
using password security. For the grand finale, you'll discover how to
wrap a set of PDF files (and other documents, too) into a PDF
Portfolio, complete with a Flash interface and display features.
Have
you ever sent a document to a few people for feedback and then had to
wait for replies? You probably had to send reminders, and maybe you
even missed a deadline. If so, you'll be amazed at how the
collaboration tools in Acrobat help you conduct, control, and manage
the document review process. You'll even find out how to work in
real-time using a chat window in Acrobat 9 Pro or online using a free
Web conferencing room.
This course will also give you a taste
of how Acrobat 9 Pro uses artificial intelligence to automatically find
and configure fields on a page to convert to a form. It may sound
complicated, but you'll be surprised at how simple it is! Then you can
use form tracking features to send your form to others to fill in and
send back to you, collect the data automatically, and zero in on
results using filters and sorts. You can even send the results to a
spreadsheet if you like.
Throughout the lessons, you'll see
why Adobe Acrobat has become the best-selling Adobe software of all
time. You won't find instructions that show you how to complete
meaningless exercises. Instead, each lesson works with an important
Acrobat 9 Pro feature or process. Along with guidance for using the
features, you'll learn how to use the program for your own work and
communication needs, and you'll discover just how much you can do with
PDF documents!
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Syllabus:
A new section of each course starts monthly. If enrolling in
a series of two or more courses, please be sure to space the start date
for each course at least two months apart.
All courses run for six weeks, with a two-week grace period at the
end. Two lessons are released each week for the six-week duration of
the course. You do not have to be present when lessons are released.
You will have access to all lessons until the course ends. However, the
interactive discussion area that accompanies each lesson will
automatically close two weeks after the lesson is released. As such, we
strongly recommend that you complete each lesson within two weeks of
its release.
The final exam will be released on the same day as the last lesson.
Once the final exam has been released, you will have two weeks to
complete all of your course work, including the final exam.
| Week One |
| Wednesday - Lesson 01 |
Imagine taking a
document, a spreadsheet, an image or two, and a few slides from a
presentation and then putting them all together into one file—complete
with page numbers, a custom footer, and even some animation. Does it
sound too good to be true? It's not! Adobe Acrobat 9 allows you to do
all this and more. By the end of this first lesson, you'll know how to
make your way around Acrobat 9 Pro and set different program
preferences. You'll even make your first PDF file from an image (a logo
for the fictional business we'll follow through the course).
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| Friday - Lesson 02 |
Where do new PDF
files come from? To answer that question, we'll start Lesson 2 with a
discussion on planning your project's workflow. You'll try out several
different methods to create a PDF document using common programs
including Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. You'll find out how to
work with PDFMaker, a toolbar that Acrobat installs in some
Microsoft programs that helps you choose settings and create PDF files
automatically. You'll also work with the Adobe PDF Printer, which allows you to produce PDF files from programs that don't export them directly.
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| Week Two |
| Wednesday - Lesson 03 |
Today, instead of
using PDF documents converted from many different types of files,
you'll see how to start a new PDF file from scratch. We'll use the New
Document Editor to set up pages and margins, and format the text. Along
with typing text in the page, we'll try importing some text from
another file. Then you'll work with the TouchUp tools to manipulate the
content on the page and add some graphics. Before the end of the
lesson, you'll dive in to the workings of a PDF file and learn about
file information, called metadata.
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| Friday - Lesson 04 |
Mixing and
matching—moving pages from one document to another—is a common way to
edit PDF files. Acrobat 9 Pro offers a number of techniques for
combining and changing page content. You'll start today with simple
files, and then you'll see how to add and delete pages, as well as
learn specialized ways to slip a new page into a document without
disturbing any of the elements, such as links or bookmarks that you've
added to the page. You'll combine documents (and even specific pages
from documents) into one PDF document, and you'll find out how to
resize or crop pages so that they all match. Finally, you'll discover
how to add password protection that lets you specify whether users can
print or use contents from your files.
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| Week Three |
| Wednesday - Lesson 05 |
It's one thing to
bring together content from different types of files. It's quite
another to make the content look like it belongs together! In this
lesson, you'll learn about Acrobat features that help make your
document look more uniform. You'll work with backgrounds and watermarks
that can be either text or graphics. You'll see how to use headers and
footers that you can customize using your own text, choices of fonts,
colors, and so on. You'll also use the Snapshot tool to create a new
PDF document from a page segment. By the end of this lesson, you'll be
able to easily make all your documents look put together, whether they
started out as two files or 10!
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| Friday - Lesson 06 |
When you work
with a table of contents in Acrobat and many other programs, you click
a link on the page to take you to a certain part of the document. But
then how do you get back to the table of contents to find another
topic? Acrobat 9 Pro solves that problem by using bookmarks.
Today you'll learn about building and displaying bookmarks in a
separate panel that stays visible while the file is open. You'll
discover different ways to create bookmarks and customize their
appearance to match your document. Then we'll take a look at adding
attachments to your PDF document. If you've ever had to send someone an
e-mail and had trouble remembering if you sent all the necessary
attachments, you'll like this feature. It allows you to add extra
content like documents and images to one PDF document.
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| Week Four |
| Wednesday - Lesson 07 |
Everyone knows
how to use links on a Web page: Just click them to get to the linked
page. In this lesson, you'll learn about using links in a PDF file.
You'll start working with Acrobat JavaScript—and you don't need to be a
programmer to use it—to add multiple links and work with custom
actions. Like Web links, links in Acrobat can open another PDF
document, show another page, or send an e-mail. Next, you'll find out
about linking to Web pages from a PDF file and downloading a Web page
to create or add to a document right in Acrobat. And we won't just talk
about text links—you'll also create a link from an image.
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| Friday - Lesson 08 |
Did you know that
Acrobat 9 includes an Artificial Intelligence module? While it can't
perform any science fiction magic, it can look at a document, decide
where you'd like to have form fields, and then add and name the fields
for you automatically. Today you'll see how it works with PDF forms.
You'll learn about using the Form Wizard to produce a form for you, and
then we'll look at some ways to add more form fields. You'll have a
chance to calculate prices for different products in the form you
create and even build a button that changes its appearance when you
click it.
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| Week Five |
| Wednesday - Lesson 09 |
Collaborating on
a document—sharing it with others and gathering their feedback—is one
of the most popular uses of Acrobat. In this lesson, you discover how
to use common commenting tools and customize the program to make it
simpler for you to work. We'll go through each group of tools and check
out the corresponding group of commenting preferences along the way.
You'll first learn about Sticky Notes and customizing how you view
comments. Next, you'll use the Highlights and Callouts and decide how
and where you like to read the comment contents. We'll finish by trying
out Stamp comments and making a custom stamp.
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| Friday - Lesson 10 |
Once you've
learned to add and configure comments, you need something to do with
them. So today you'll work with a document review. You'll see how to
start a shared review, send e-mail invitations, and work online at
Acrobat.com. You'll learn how to set up and manage a review, including
different ways to work with comments.
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| Week Six |
| Wednesday - Lesson 11 |
In this lesson,
we'll take your collaboration skills to the next level. First, you'll
discover how to distribute the form you created in an earlier lesson.
Along the way, you'll see how to use Tracker, an automated feature that
monitors your form's distribution process. Acrobat 9 Pro also includes
a Portfolio feature that you'll work with as you collect form results.
The Portfolio includes some tools that let you filter and sort your
data and export it to other programs. Then you'll find out how to chat
in real time with others using Collaborate Live. Instead of just
working on your desktop, you'll learn how to work online in your own
ConnectNow Web conferencing space.
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| Friday - Lesson 12 |
Just when you
think you couldn't possibly learn any more ways to combine and break
down documents in Acrobat, we'll talk about Portfolios! We'll start by
preparing the files for the final Portfolio project. You'll find out
how to split a document into several parts using a couple of different
methods. Once we've prepared the files, we'll start a Portfolio. Then
you'll try out different appearance features, add some images, and work
with color schemes. Finally, you'll learn how to manage the content of
your Portfolio, such as adding folders and moving files. By the end of
this lesson, you'll be ready to use Acrobat to combine, create, and
collaborate on documents like never before!
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This
course includes a knowledgeable and caring instructor who will guide
you through your lessons, facilitate discussions, and answer your
questions. The instructor for this course will be Donna Baker.
Donna Baker is a freelance graphic designer and the author of many books
about design software and Web design. You can read tips and tutorials
from her books through Adobe Design Center (www.adobe.com/designcenter), and on Web sites such as Creativepro.com.
She writes a monthly column for one of Adobe's Web sites, and is an
Adobe Community Expert and an Adobe Certified Expert, as well as a
member of the Experts' Panel at acrobatusers.com, an Adobe community
site.
Requirements:
Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Windows or Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended Windows
or Vista. Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Mac (either as a standalone product, or
as part of an Adobe CS4 collection) and Mac OS X Tiger (10.4.11),
Leopard (10.5.x), or Mac OS X Intel; Internet access, e-mail, the
Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox Web browser. Note:
Acrobat 9 Pro software must be installed and fully operational before
the course begins. Microsoft Office programs such as Microsoft Word and
Microsoft Excel, and Adobe Creative Suite programs such as Adobe
Photoshop CS4 and Adobe Illustrator CS4 are used in preparation of the
course materials, although they aren't necessary to complete the
course. Access to these programs is useful for personal project
development.
To purchase this course, click the Enroll Now button below:
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