Application Overview:
Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat Pro X (also known as Adobe Acrobat CS4/CS5) software enables you to reliably create electronic versions of your documents from virtually any application while maintaining the exact look and feel of the original document. You can then distribute, combine, secure and add interactivity to Adobe PDF documents. Users can use the free Adobe Reader to view and print your document without the need of the original software that your document was created in.
Note: If you will be using Acrobat 9 Standard or previous versions such as Acrobat 8 Professional or Standard and Acrobat 7 Professional or Standard instead of Acrobat 9 Pro, 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.
Adobe Training
Adobe Acrobat X
Introduction/Intermediate
Adobe Acrobat X
Advanced
Adobe Acrobat Accessible PDFs
with InDesign & Word
Adobe Acrobat Forms
/LiveCycle Designer
Introduction
Adobe After Effects CS5
Introduction
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5
Introduction
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5
Intermediate/Advanced
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5
Specialist
Adobe Flash CS5
Introduction
Adobe Flash CS5
Intermediate/Advanced
Adobe Flash CS5 Video
Introduction
Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5
Introduction
Adobe Illustrator CS5
Introduction
Adobe Illustrator CS5
Advanced
Adobe InDesign CS5
Introduction
Adobe InDesign CS5
Intermediate/Advanced
Adobe Photoshop CS5
Introduction
Adobe Photoshop CS5
Advanced
Adobe Photoshop CS5
& Adobe Fireworks CS5
for the Web
Colour Correction in Photoshop
Introduction
Adobe Premiere Pro CS5
Introduction
Adobe Acrobat Accessible PDFs
with Adobe InDesign & Microsoft Word
Course Information
Duration: One-Day Course
Platform: Windows and Macintosh
Fee: $395 CDN (+HST)
This class is limited to eight people.
*Note: As of February 2011 DPA Communications will offer Adobe Acrobat, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, Premiere, After Effects, Dreamweaver, Flash and Flash Catalyst courses on version CS5 (Creative Suite 5).
If you are currently using previous versions see the CS4 version of this course outline for any differences in training course content. Please contact DPA for more details or to have an instructor contact you.
Course Overview
In this course you will learn the tools and techniques required to make PDF documents more accessible for persons with vision and motor impairments.
You will use Adobe InDesign and Microsoft Word to establish accessibility items and then preserve these items and eliminate repetitive tasks using Adobe Acrobat. Knowledge and experience using Adobe InDesign, Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat at the advanced level is a prerequisite for this course.
Course Content
- Review of document integrity in Adobe InDesign and Microsoft Word
- Review of paragraph and character styles in Adobe InDesign and Microsoft Word
- Using the Structure Pane, Tags and Bookmark Panels in Adobe InDesign
- Creating tagged PDFs using Adobe InDesign and Microsoft Word
- Tagging text and graphics
- Adding Alternate text to images and nontext elements
- Creating Bookmarks and Hyperlinks in Adobe InDesign and Microsoft Word
- Adding Metadata to an InDesign and Word file
- Exporting InDesign and Word documents to a PDF to include accessibility features
- Using the Pages, Order, Content, Tags and Bookmarks panels in Adobe Acrobat
- Adding and Editing Tags in Acrobat
- Manually creating Bookmarks in Acrobat
- Creating Automated Bookmarks from Document Structure in Acrobat
- Setting the document Language in Acrobat.
- Setting the reading order of a document using the Touch up reading Order Tool in Adobe Acrobat
- Using the automatic scroll features
- Using the Reading Aloud features
- Setting preferences for the read aloud features
- Setting Accessibility Preferences in Acrobat
- Tagging text in a PDF using Acrobat
- Adding alternate text to images and non-text elements in Acrobat
- Changing the initial view of a document
- Testing PDF files for accessibility issues using the "Quick Check" and the "Full Check" feature
(PDF 70 kb)