Adobe Course Overview

As a creative professional, you've been responsible for creating documents using design software and have probably shared those documents with others, such as colleagues, clients, and reviewers. You've probably shared printed copies of your documents with others, may have sent documents to a commercial printer, and may have shared documents electronically by emailing them as well. Now you may need to share electronic versions of your documents with others who may not have the software you used to create them. In this course, you'll use Adobe Acrobat® 6.0 to convert documents to PDF, and will customize those PDF documents for interactive online use as well as for commercial printing.

Course Objective:

You will efficiently create, enhance, and access graphically rich and multimedia information within PDF documents for both interactive online use and commercial printing.

Target Student:

The target student for this course is a professional in the creative or printing field who needs to distribute documents intended for use via the Web or for commercial printing.

Prerequisites:

Before taking this course, you should complete the following courses, or have equivalent knowledge:

• Macintosh OS X

Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom delivery learning model with structured, hands-on activities.

Course duration:

1 day.

Hardware Requirements:

You will need:

• PowerPC® G3 or later processor.
• 64 MB of RAM (128 MB recommended).
• 405 MB of available hard disk space.
• 1,024 x 768 screen resolution.
• CD-ROM drive if installing from a CD.

• Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional.
• A text editing application such as Text Edit or Word.
• An image editing application such as Adobe Photoshop.
• Apple QuickTime.
• Optional: a spreadsheet application such as Microsoft Excel.

• Apple® Mac® OS X 10.2.2 or higher.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• access information in a PDF document by navigating it, clicking bookmarks and links, searching, and exporting text and graphics.
• create and batch process PDF documents that are optimized for electronic use that include bookmarks, links, articles, and embedded multimedia.
• create interactive PDF forms with text fields, fields with predefined options, buttons, tables, and calculations.
• prepare a PDF document for commercial printing by choosing an appropriate method of creating the PDF file, choosing appropriate Adobe PDF settings, reproducing color accurately, previewing printed effects, preflighting the document, and creating a PDF/X compliant file.
• create composite and color separations prints from a PDF document.

Lesson 1: Accessing Information in PDF Documents

• Topic 1A: Browse Through a PDF Document
• Topic 1B: Navigate to Specific Content Within a PDF Document
• Topic 1C: Find and Edit Text
• Topic 1D: Export Content from a PDF Document