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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 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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Course Information

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

This class is limited to eight people.

Course Overview

In this course you will learn to create interactive PDFs that include sound and video and to convert a PDF into a full screen presentation complete with screen transitions. In addition you will cover editing/downsizing existing PDFs using the PDF Optimizer, automating repetitive tasks with batch processing and using the preflight tools for PDF/X compliance.

Course Content

  • Using the Acrobat Organizer to open, sort and manage documents
  • Review of the Adobe PDF predefined distiller settings
  • Creating custom PDF Distiller settings
  • Creating PDFs from compressed file formats including tiff, eps, jpg, dwg, gif, png, etc.
  • Setting up and reviewing Acrobat’s Preferences
  • Adding backgrounds to a multiple file PDF
  • Creating a PDF portfolio with settings
  • Editing text from a scanned document using OCR Text Recognition
  • Using the Image Touch-up tool to modify graphics in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop
  • Exporting images and text from a PDF
  • Using the Compare Documents feature to show the differences between two versions of a PDF
  • Adding source files (Excel or Word) to a PDF
  • Adding digital signatures to a document and setting up a signature appearance
  • Adding Flash video files and sound clips to a PDF
  • Creating buttons to trigger events such as multimedia playback and document navigation
  • Utilizing Batch processing to automate repetitive tasks in Acrobat
  • Preflight PDFs for professional output to identify possible printing problems
  • Using Acrobat Catalog to create indexes enabling enhanced searching across multiple PDFs
  • Building and working with layers in a PDF
  • Creating a PDF presentation by setting full screen or page transitions
  • Downsizing an existing PDF using the PDF Optimizer and the Acrobat Version Compatibility settings

Calendar Dates:

Jul 30, 2010

Sep 17, 2010

Oct 27, 2010

Dec 17, 2010

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