Acrobat 8 Professional: Basic

Course Outline

Course length: 1 day

Description: In this course students will learn how to use Acrobat 8 Professional to create, modify, and review PDF documents. They'll learn how to create PDF documents from within Acrobat as well as other programs, create headers, footers, bookmarks, and links, ensure that PDF documents are accessible, apply password security, digitally sign, validate and encrypt PDF files, initiate a review, and create a comment summary file. Features integrated mapping of Adobe Certified Expert exam objectives

Course Content

Unit 1: Getting started

• Topic A: The Acrobat environment
• Topic B: Advanced navigation
• Topic C: Finding text
• Topic D: Organizing PDF documents
• Topic E: Getting help
• Topic F: Preferences
  
  

Unit 2: Converting documents to PDF

• Topic A: Printing to PDF from any application
• Topic B: Acrobat PDFMaker
• Topic C: The Create PDF commands
  
  

Unit 3: Modifying PDF documents

• Topic A: Modifying document pages
• Topic B: Modifying content
• Topic C: Moving PDF content to other programs
• Topic D: Optimizing PDF file size
  
  

Unit 4: Document navigation tools

• Topic A: Bookmarks
• Topic B: Working with links
  
  

Unit 5: PDF accessibility

• Topic A: Accessible documents
• Topic B: Accessibility in the Acrobat environment

Unit 6: Document security

• Topic A: Password protection
• Topic B: Digital signatures
• Topic C: Encryption certification and security envelopes
• Topic D: Adobe LiveCycle Policy Server encryption
• Topic E: Password and certificate security policies
  
  

Unit 7: Document review techniques

• Topic A: Document reviews
• Topic B: Reviewer tools
• Topic C: Manipulate comments and markups
  
  

Appendix A: ACE exam objectives map

• Topic A: ACE exam objectives