Adobe Acrobat 8 Training Courses

About this course

Adobe Acrobat allows PDF files to be created from any source document: MS Office applications, InDesign, Pagemaker, Access, Internet Explorer - in fact, any application that you can print from. While this is not a complex process, all PDF files are not created equal and there is much to learn about building the right PDF file for the job at hand. In print, for example, correct image resolution and font embedding is imperative to achieving a good result; on the Web, PDFs need to be optimised for fast download.

This course will take the mystery out of Acrobat and help you create the right PDF for your working environment every time.

What you will learn

If you've ever had trouble creating, editing or even opening PDF files then you'll find this course answers all the questions you have regarding the ubiquitous Portable Document Format.

The course begins with an introduction to the concept of PostScript and PDF before taking students through the process of making PDF files from a variety of source documents and optimising them for the task at hand: for print or web or distribution to others by email etc.

We'll then look at the Acrobat workspace in some detail, examining the many navigation, searching and sorting features the application has to offer before creating PDFs from within Acrobat itself from image files, text files, web pages and even emails. This will include an exercise in Optical Character Recognition (OCR), converting a scanned document to editable PDF text.

Creating PDFs directly from MS Office applications is the most common hurdle most people face in general office environments so time will be spent using the PDF Maker plug-in from Word, Excel and PowerPoint source documents, including mapping styles and headings to bookmarks, working with security, and converting Word footnotes and review comments to PDF notes.

We'll then move on to more advanced features by editing PDFs within Acrobat including linking, using bookmarks, using pages (thumbnails), cropping, extracting, editing images and much more.

Finally, we'll look at annotations such as notes, review markup, free text, freehand drawing and stamp creation, as well as the powerful send-for-review features introduced in more recent versions of the program.

Creating Online Documents

• Looking at online document design
• Setting an opening view
• Linking with the form tool
• Creating and editing articles
• Adding multimedia elements
• Editing and Saving PDF
• Touching up text in a PDF files
• Copying and moving images
• Extracting images
• Copying text from a PDF file
• Copying tables from a PDF
• Saving PDF files to text
• Saving PDF files to Word
• Saving PDF files to JPG

Annotations and comments

• Understanding annotations
• Creating comments and markup
• Adding graphics, lines, circles and highlights
• Creating and adding stamps
• Attaching files
• Using the Comments palette

Here's what you get on a Fearless course

Course Materials

We typically supply detailed course notes or a reference text or in some cases both. Either way, we try to provide sufficient supporting material so that you can return to your work place with sufficient confidence to permit further learning.

Catering

We like to look after our customers with:

• Quality catering from local cafes
• Fresh fruit
• Filter coffee and good biscuits
• Table sweets
• Chilled water

We also accommodate special dietary requirements such as vegetarian, gluten intolerance etc.

Support

There's nothing worse than leaving a course and feeling left on your own. We like to ensure our customers have all the support and backup they need including:

• 90 days unlimited support by phone, email or instant messaging
• On-going support through our Fearless Flyer program (for an extra fee)
• A free re-sit of this course on any scheduled date in the future

You also get

• A certificate of completion
• A CD-ROM with worked examples (for most courses)

Please select your location from the list below. A PDF brochure with the course description, price and other details will appear in your browser. Alternatively, right-click on the desired link and choose "Save file (or target) as..." and save the file to your local system. Adobe (Acrobat) reader is required.

View PDF Brochure for

• Canberra
• Hobart
• Melbourne
• Sydney

About this course

Adobe Acrobat allows PDF files to be created from any source document from simple Word or Excel files to complex InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator or other files. While this is not in itself a complex process, all PDF files are not created equal and there is much to learn about building the right PDF file for the job at hand.

This course uses Acrobat Professional to explore this powerful and flexible application taking source files from InDesign, Word, Illustrator and other applications.

What you will learn

The course begins with an introduction to the concept of PostScript and PDF before taking students through the process of making PDF files from a variety of source documents and optimising them for the task at hand: for print or web or distribution to others by email etc.

We'll then look at the Acrobat workspace in some detail, examining the many navigation, searching and sorting features the application has to offer before creating PDFs from within Acrobat itself from image files, text files, web pages and even emails. This will include an exercise in Optical Character Recognition (OCR), converting a scanned document to editable PDF text.

While Creating PDFs directly from MS Office applications will be looked at, we'll also go further using InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop to generate multi-layered PDFs for output to commercial printshop or digital printer.

We'll also look at more advanced features by editing PDFs within Acrobat including linking, using bookmarks, using pages (thumbnails), cropping, extracting, editing images and much more.

Finally, we'll look at annotations such as notes, review markup, free text, freehand drawing and stamp creation, as well as the powerful send-for-review features introduced in more recent versions of the program.

Annotations and Comments

• Understanding annotations
• Creating comments and markup
• Adding graphics, lines, circles and highlights
• Creating and adding stamps
• Attaching files
• Using the Comments palette

Articles, Bookmarks and Links

• Creating and editing bookmarks
• Linking to other documents
• Creating destinations
• Creating articles
• Setting article flow

Creating an Index

• Using catalog to create an index
• Searching indexed libraries
• Understanding search results

Here's what you get on a Fearless course

Course Materials

We typically supply detailed course notes or a reference text or in some cases both. Either way, we try to provide sufficient supporting material so that you can return to your work place with sufficient confidence to permit further learning.

Catering

We like to look after our customers with:

• Quality catering from local cafes
• Fresh fruit
• Filter coffee and good biscuits
• Table sweets
• Chilled water

We also accommodate special dietary requirements such as vegetarian, gluten intolerance etc.

Support

There's nothing worse than leaving a course and feeling left on your own. We like to ensure our customers have all the support and backup they need including:

• 90 days unlimited support by phone, email or instant messaging
• On-going support through our Fearless Flyer program (for an extra fee)
• A free re-sit of this course on any scheduled date in the future

You also get

• A certificate of completion
• A CD-ROM with worked examples (for most courses)

Please select your location from the list below. A PDF brochure with the course description, price and other details will appear in your browser. Alternatively, right-click on the desired link and choose "Save file (or target) as..." and save the file to your local system. Adobe (Acrobat) reader is required.

View PDF Brochure for

• Canberra
• Hobart
• Melbourne
• Sydney