Overview

The Acrobat Professional 1 Week Special course covers all the major features of the Acrobat Professional, Distiller and Catalog. It is designed for users who plan to use Adobe Acrobat Professional extensively in their workflows and need to learn as much as possible about the program as quickly as possible.It also covers the advanced use of forms and creation of JavaScript code for manipulating documents, adding navigation to PDF files and making forms dynamic. The course comprises:Acrobat Intro (1 day)Acrobat(1 day)Acrobat JavaScript (3 days)

Course Outline

Acrobat Introduction

Acrobat components

What is Adobe Acrobat, Overview of Reader, Overview of Distiller, Overview of Catalog, Overview of Adobe Acrobat Pro, What can Acrobat do

Creating a PDF file

Creating a PDF in MS Word, Acrobat Distiller vs. PDFWriter, Distiller�s preset job options, Creating a PDF in PowerPoint, Using Open as PDF

Acrobat basics

The Acrobat work area, Moving through documents, Zooming in and out, Changing screen modes, Searching a PDF document, Setting Acrobat preferences

Navigation controls

Using thumbnails, Using bookmarks, Using articles for navigation, Page actions, Using links and buttons

Editing PDF files

Selecting and modifying text, Selecting and moving graphics, Moving pages around, Deleting and inserting pages, Cropping pages

Comments

Adding text comments, Adding graphical comments, Highlighting and marking, Exporting and importing comments, Reviewing comments

Distributing PDFs

Emailing from Acrobat, Optimising files, Specifying how documents open, Using full-screen mode, Adding password protection, Embedding searchable information, Checking spelling

Acrobat Advanced

Acrobat Distiller

Different ways of using Distiller, Setting Distiller job options, Resolution and compression options, Choosing settings for fonts, Security and encryption, Creating postscript files, Setting up watched folders

Acrobat Tools and security

Using PDF consultant, Acrobat digital signatures, Acrobat Self-Sign, Comparing documents, Capturing web pages, Batch processing PDF files

Multimedia

Acrobat and multimedia, Inserting a movie, Inserting sound, Playback options

Forms

Creating and formatting fields, Using the grid, Using the Info palette, Formatting text fields, Defining calculation fields, Drop-down lists, Radio buttons, Adding submit and reset buttons, Creating rollover effects, Replicating a button on all pages

Actions

How actions work, Benefits of using actions, Creating a new action, Editing an action, Managing actions

Indexes

Benefits of indexes, Using acrobat Catalog, Defining and building an index, Automatically updating indexes, Searching in Acrobat Professional, Selecting indexes, Browsing search results

Acrobat JavaScript

Getting started

Overview of Acrobat JavaScript features

PDF files and JavaScript, The Acrobat JavaScript API, Acrobat�s implementation of Javascript, Acrobat objects, Using the JavaScript Editor, Using and external JavaScript editor, JavaScript essentials

Using comments

Using variables, Using code blocks, Defining functions, Calling functions, Passing parameters, Looping structures, Conditional statements, Writing scripts

Using Javascript for navigation

Obtaining field values, Setting field values, Showing and hiding fields, Calculating field values, Making field values conditional, Working with forms

Providing help via scripts

Changing field in response to user actions, Creating form fields via scripts, Creating text fields, Creating check boxes, Creating combo boxes, Setting field attributes, Working wi