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Application Overview:
Adobe Acrobat Pro 9

Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 (also known as Adobe Acrobat CS4) 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.

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Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 (CS4)
Introduction/Intermediate

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Course Information

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

This class is limited to eight people.

Course Overview

In this course you will learn the features required to create PDFs using Adobe Acrobat for such uses as the web, intranets, in-house proofing, commercial printing and archiving. You will use Acrobat’s many tools and panels to navigate through this application with ease. Also covered will be using the commenting tools and settings for paperless edits and reviews, adding interactivity and setting preferences and document properties.

Course Content

  • Overview of the Adobe Acrobat interface: tools, menus and the navigation panel
  • Overview of Acrobat’s general preferences
  • Setting the initial view of a PDF document in Adobe Reader and checking the file size
  • Using Adobe Acrobat to open and create PDF documents from original application files
  • Page display settings: overview of the layout and zoom tools
  • Creating PDFs from a variety of file formats Including Microsoft and Adobe
  • Creating PDF files from the internet and clipboard areas
  • Creating a PDF document from multiple files within Adobe Acrobat
  • Overview of the PDF Maker in Microsoft applications and changing settings
  • Creating custom PDF settings (job options) within Acrobat
  • Creating and organizing bookmarks using automated and manual methods
  • Setting bookmark structure, appearances and destinations
  • Creating Hyperlinks and adding basic page actions
  • Creating buttons, adding graphic appearances and basic page actions
  • Inserting, removing and re-ordering pages in a PDF
  • Editing a PDF document: cropping and editing text or objects
  • Adding headers, footers, watermarks
  • Editing page numbers
  • Limiting access to PDF files using general password protection and permissions
  • Setting document-specific properties such as security settings and initial view
  • Adding comments and markups to a document
  • Using markup tools and the properties bar
  • Exporting comments and markups to a PDF or Word file

Calendar Dates:

Mar 8, 2010

Apr 22, 2010

Jun 3, 2010

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