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Cost

Description

In this two-day class, taught by an Adobe Certified Instructor, you will learn to create navigable PDFs from various applications, how to export PDF content so you can use it in MS-Office apps, enhance existing PDFs by inserting and deleting pages, adding text, links, headers/footers and more. You will search PDFs, reduce PDF file size, and create PDF portfolios. You will add comments to PDFs and create a shared review. You will compare a revised PDF to an earlier version, extract pages out of PDFs, add passwords and permissions to secure PDFs, create actions to perform batch processes automatically and learn to remove sensitive information. You will convert existing PDFs into forms, add text fields and checkbox, radio button and drop-down list fields. You will make forms interactive, including calcuations, and add buttons to print, save, submit and reset the form.

Prerequisites

This class is suitable for anyone with basic computer skills like using a mouse and opening and closing windows.

Outline

Acrobat Interface
– Navigating PDF documents
– Magnification shortcuts
– Working with documents
– Setting Preferences
– Toolbars, task panes and panels
Viewing PDF Files
– In Read mode
– In Full Screen mode
– Splitting the view
Creating PDFs from Various Sources
Repurposing PDFs
– Exporting to .docx and .xlsx
– Saving images from PDF files
Enhancing and Editing PDF Files
– Inserting, rotating and deleting pages
– Renumbering pages
– Editing text and adding links
– Adding a video to a PDF
– Setting document properties and adding metadata
– Copying text and images from a PDF file
– Editing images and other objects in PDF files
Reducing PDF File Size
Attaching Files to PDFs
Viewing Portfolios (legacy support)
Searching PDFs
– Searching for text in PDF files
– Using advanced search options
Reviewing and Commenting on PDF Files
– The Commenting tools
– Adding comments to a PDF
– Importing, exporting and summarizing comments
– Creating a shared review
Comparing a Revised PDF to an Earlier Version
Extracting Pages and Splitting a Document
Securing PDF Files
– Adding password & permissions security
– Security policies
– Using security envelopes
Using Actions
– Creating an action
– Saving, testing and sharing actions
Removing Sensitive Information from PDF Files
– Applying redaction
– Changing the appearance of redactions
– Searching text for redaction
Converting PDFs to Interactive forms
– automatic and manual field detection
Adding Fields
– inserting text fields
– aligning fields
– inserting checkboxes, radio buttons and drop-downs
Interactivity
– showing and hiding fields interactively
– creating calculation fields
– creating rollover buttons and pop-ups
Creating Buttons
– adding buttons to Print or Save
– adding Submit and Reset buttons
– choosing form submission options
Accessibility Options (time permitting)
– overview of requirements
– verifying compliance with Section 508

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