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Application Overview:
Adobe Acrobat Professional

Adobe Acrobat Professional software delivers advanced tools for creating, collaborating with, and controlling the output of high-quality Adobe PDF files, as well as distributing them online. A de facto standard among design, web, and print professionals, Adobe PDF preserves design work in a compact, self-contained form that's easy to share, e-mail, review, manage, post online, archive, and reliably output.

Note: If you will be using Acrobat Standard 8 or previous versions such as Acrobat 7 Professional or Standard and Acrobat 6 Professional or Standard instead of Acrobat Professional 8, please contact DPA to obtain more information to insure DPA Adobe Acrobat training will fulfill your goals.

Users: Creative, Engineering, Finance, IT, Legal, Marketing and Admin Professionals as well as anyone who needs reliable electronic versions of their documents.

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Adobe Acrobat
Advanced

Course Information

Duration: One-Day Course
Platform: Windows and Macintosh
Fee: $375 CDN (+GST)

This class is limited to eight people.

Course Overview

Go beyond the basics to create, modify and optimize rich interactive PDFs for on-line and off-line viewing. Add multimedia such as sound, video and Flash animation and add navigation buttons to existing documents. Develop custom Distiller settings for different output requirements. Preflight documents for commercial printing using preflighting tools for PDF/X compliance. Automate common tasks with batch processing. Create indexes for searching across multiple PDFs and add MetaData. Reduce large PDFs for web viewing.

Note: Adobe Acrobat requires Windows 2000 or XP or higher or
Mac OS X v.10.2.2 or higher to run.

Course Content

  • Using Acrobat Distiller for embedding and subsetting fonts, compressing images, text, line art and choosing Distiller job options
  • Creating and distributing custom Distiller job options
  • Converting PostScript and EPS files to PDF
  • Using the Text Touch-up tool to modify text
  • Using the Image Touch-up tool to modify graphics in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop
  • Adding security and encryption to PDFs
  • Adding sound to PDFs
  • Adding movies and Flash files to PDFs
  • Creating buttons to trigger events such as multimedia playback and document navigation
  • Utilizing Batch processing to automate tasks in Acrobat
  • Preflighting PDFs for professional output to identify possible printing problems
  • Creating indexes with Acrobat Catalog to enable searching across multiple PDFs
  • Working with layered PDFs
  • Using Acrobat’s Organizer to sort and manage PDFs

Calendar Dates:

Jul 25, 2008

Aug 26, 2008

Sep 8, 2008

Oct 24, 2008

Nov 21, 2008

Dec 19, 2008

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