Certified Adobe Acrobat 9.0 Training
Course AC10
Adobe Acrobat 9 (Professional and Standard)
Users of Acrobat 8 can take this course to learn the functionality of Acrobat.
Adobe Acrobat is the fastest way to publish any document online. In this course you will learn how to take digital files in any format, paper documents and Web pages and create Portable Document Format files (PDF).
Adobe Acrobat is also the perfect Business Solution for securing and distributing online documents for commenting and review. These documents can be viewed and printed using the free Adobe Reader or presented as full screen multimedia presentations. You can distribute documents on the Web, intranets and DVD-ROMs. Adobe Acrobat allows you to do so much more with your PDF files. .
Course topics include:
PDF File Creation
- Acrobat and the Acrobat product family, Acrobat Professional, Acrobat Standard
- Installing Acrobat and associated components for PDF creation
- Overview of Acrobat interface, preferences and tools
- PDF file navigation using links and bookmarks
- Introduction to PDF file creation - creating PDF files for different purposes
- Creating PDF files from Microsoft Office Suite Using PDF Maker
- Creating PDF files from other business applications, such as WordPerfect
- Using preset Acrobat Distiller settings to create PDF files
- Creating PDF files from paper documents using Paper Capture
- Creating PDF files from web pages using Web Capture
Business Solutions
- Editing PDF files - touching up text, object touch up, re-ordering, inserting, cropping, deleting, replacing pages and content
- Working with image manipulation tools
- Adding page numbers and watermarks to documents
- Working with Portfolios
- Adding header and footers to combine documents
- Review tools for document circulation and review
- Organizing comments in the review process - email based review
- Signing Documents with Digital Signatures
- Working with Acrobat Standard Security in Acrobat
- Adding MetaData to PDF documents
- Adding Multimedia elements to PDF's
- Staging and Testing PDF collections for delivery to the Web, Intranets or CD-ROMs
Duration: 2 days, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm.
Fee: $745.00 CDN + HST
Course AC11
Adobe Acrobat 9 Advanced (Professional)
Learn the advanced features of Adobe Acrobat to push Acrobat and PDF usage to its fullest potential within your organization. This course is directed a developing advanced users within your organization and is unique in Canada.
Course topics include:
- Creating custom settings for Acrobat Distiller.
- Using advanced Distiller settings to process Postscript files.
- Reworking PDF files to improve performance.
- Using PDF Optimizer to monitor PDF creation.
- Advanced batch processing tools in Acrobat
- Creating interactive PDF files with Javascript.
- Building in Document level navigation structures and interactive documents.
- Working with PDF Catalog and Search Index creation.
- Applying Self Sign security to PDF files
- Using Certificate Security in Acrobat
- Adding Multimedia elements to PDF documents.
- Working with Layers
- Using SWF format, FLV format multimedia
- Creating Buttons to control multimedia
- Reflowing PDF files for use on hand held devices and PDA’s.
- Exporting to RTF, HTML, XML, Tiff, and other image formats.
Prerequisites: AC10 Adobe Acrobat
Duration: 1 day, 9:00 - 4:00 pm.
Fee: $395.00 CDN + HST
Course AC12
Adobe Acrobat 9 e-Forms (Professional)
Automate your organization's use of e-Forms. Create user-friendly online forms for use on a web site or company intranet using the forms feature in Adobe Acrobat 9.0 Professional. Learn which Acrobat products work with you to fill in, sign and save form data.
Course topics include:
- Examples of PDF e-Forms
- Converting paper forms into Acrobat PDF e-Forms
- Adobe Acrobat forms preferences
- Using the layout features in Acrobat to design complex e-Forms
- Developing fields for data input and setting properties of fields
- Text fields, Checkboxes, Radio Buttons, Drop Down Menus, Signature Fields, Bar Codes
- Setting tab order using the form tools in Acrobat
- Creating PDF e-Forms uisng the Run Form Field Recognition tool
- Using pre-scripted features in Acrobat to calculate values
- Using simplified field notation to perform calculations
- Add interactive features to make PDF e-Forms more user-friendly
- Apply JavaScript to forms to build user interactivity using the OnFocus event
- Enabling Usage Rights for PDF e-forms
- Using Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader to fill in and digitally sign forms
- Working with email based forms processes
- Collecting form data using email based processes
Prerequisites: AC10 or permission from the instructor
Duration: 1 day, 9:00 - 4:00 pm
Fee: $395.00 CDN + HST
Course AC13
Adobe Acrobat 9 Creating Accessible PDF'S (Professional)
Learn to use the new accessibility features of Acrobat Professional so that persons with visual impairments and physical disabilities can get the benefits of PDF technology. Using Acrobat, students will explore the issues relating to the creation of Accessible Adobe Acrobat PDF documents.
Note: This course is also of great interest to those working in the Governments of Canada and Ontario who have to make web site content accessible under the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and Government of Canada and Common Look and Feel standards for Adobe PDF and the Ontarian Disabilities Act.
Course topics include:
- Designing and Authoring documents for accessibility
- Understanding the range of accessibility features in Adobe Acrobat Professional and Adobe Reader
- Creating "accessible" PDF files from Microsoft Office
- Making Accessible PDF forms
- Converting legacy documents to meet accessibility standards
- Using scanned and paper documents, making them accessible
- Using the Read Aloud feature
- Making PDF files Accessible using Accessibility tools and the "Accessibility Checker"
- Fixing documents to enhance accessibility and work with optimization
- Working with the "Tags" palette or window
- Manually tagging PDF files to enhance accessibility
- Working with preference setting for enhanced viewing of PDF files for persons with visual impairments
- Testing PDF files for accessibility
- Converting PDF files to html
Prerequisites: AC10 or permission from the instructor
Available on Windows platform Only
Duration: 1 day, 9:00 - 4:00 pm
Fee: $395.00 CDN + HST
Course AC14
Adobe Acrobat 9 Prepress (Professional)
Discover the pre-press features of Adobe Acrobat for creating prepress workflow. Whether you are a graphic designer, a commercial printer or a professional with responsibility for printing documents, the prepress features in Adobe Acrobat will revolutionize the way you manage your print work.
Course topics include:
- Advantages of using Adobe PDF for press
- Designing documents for press - fonts, images, vector graphics, colours
- Producing consistent colour
- Creating press-ready PDF files from Adobe graphic design applications such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign
- Creating press-ready PDF files from Microsoft Office
- Creating PostScript files
- Using Acrobat Distiller to create PDFs from PostScript
- Configuring Distiller settings - font embedding, image down sampling, colours
- Using PDF/X setting in Acrobat
- Batch conversion of PostScript files to PDF using watched folders
- Using PDF file editing techniques and tools
- Using the Print Production tools: Trap Presets, Output Preview, Preflight, Convert Colors, Ink Manager, Add Printer Marks, Crop Pages, Fix Hairlines, Transparency Flattening, PDF Optimizer, Job Definitions
- Other tools for editing PDFs - Adobe Illustrator, PitStop Pro
- Exporting EPS, PostScript and images files from PDFs
- Printing PDFs in Adobe Acrobat Professional
- PDF imposition
Prerequisites: AC10 or permission from the instructor.
Duration: 1 day, 9:00 - 4:00 pm
Fee: $395.00 CDN + HST
Course AC15
Adobe Acrobat 9.0 for Security and Legal Professionals
The demands of the Security and Legal professions place special needs on the documents that are created and managed by these disciplines. This course is designed to get security and legal professionals up to speed on using the tools and techniques in Adobe Acrobat 9 that will assist them in their respective fields.
Coursse Topics Include:
- PDF file navigation
- PDF file creation - creating PDF files for different purposes
- Creating PDF files from Microsoft Office Suite Using PDF Maker
- Working with Optical Character Recognition OCR
- Using links and bookmarks
- Adding page numbers and watermarks to documents
- Adding header and footers to combine documents
- Review tools for document circulation and review
- Organizing comments in the review process - email based review
- Signing Documents with Digital Signatures
- Working with Acrobat Standard Security in Acrobat
- Bates numbering
- Redaction of sensitive information in documents
- Adding FLV video to case files
- Searching PDF files
Prerequisites: AC10 or permission from the instructor
Duration: 1 day, 9:00 - 4:00 pm
Fee: $395.00 CDN + HST
Course AC18
Adobe LiveCycle Forms Designer ES
Learn to use this exciting tool from Adobe for creating, designing and programming PDF and XML forms. This tool ships with Acrobat Professional in Windows only. This course is designed for anyone who wishes to create PDF forms.
Course topics include:
- Understanding forms and how they are planned, designed, created, tested and deployed
- Introducing the form designer workspace
- Working with the layout editor and other palettes
- Working with the template manager
- Setting up master and body pages
- Working with initial form design properties
- Working with the various form objects and setting their properties
- Creating custom form objects and making them available for multiple designers
- Validating user input in the form
- Importing forms from other applications such as Microsoft Word and previous versions of Acrobat
- Creating interactive forms
- Adding accessibility features to forms
- Creating calculations and script using JavaScript
and FormCalc
Prerequisite: Understanding of web terminology and working with tools like Macromedia Dreamweaver.
Duration: 1 day, 9:00 - 4:00 pm.
Fee: $425.00 CDN + HST
Course AC19
Adobe Reader
Adobe Reader allows you to do more with Adobe PDF documents than ever
before. This course is for anyone who uses the free Adobe Reader who
wants to
learn about what they can do with PDF documents. The course is also for Adobe
Acrobat users so that they learn more about the features in Adobe
Reader, and will learn how to better prepare their PDF documents for
distribution.
Course topics include:
- Overview of Adobe Reader 9.0/8.0 and work area
- Navigating PDF documents
- Copying text, tables and graphics
- Working with layers
- Filling in PDF forms
- Searching PDF documents
- Digitally signing PDF documents
- Usage rights and security
- Printing and e-mailing PDFs
- Buying and viewing eBooks
- Enhancing accessibility
- Using the Image Viewer and Picture Tasks plug-in
- Creating PDFs online
Prerequisites: None
Duration: 1 day, 9:00 - 4:00 pm
Fee: $395.00 CDN + HST
