Course Description

As a business professional, you have some experience in using Adobe® Acrobat®. Now you are ready to further develop your PDF documents. In this course, you will use Adobe® Acrobat® 8.0 Professional to convert technical documents to PDF files, enhance and control PDF content accessibility, customize PDF documents for interactive use online, and prepare PDFs for commercial printing.

Course Objective: You will use Adobe® Acrobat® 8.0 Professional to convert technical documents to PDF files, enhance and control PDF content accessibility, customize PDF documents for interactive use online, and prepare PDFs for commercial printing.

Target Student: The audience may or may not be creative and/or print professionals.

Prerequisites: Experience using Acrobat 7.0 or earlier, Standard or Professional edition.

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

Performance-Based Objectives

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

• create PDF files from technical documents.
• enhance the utility and accessibility of PDF documents.
• create interactive PDF forms.
• begin preparing a PDF document for commercial printing.
• finalize PDF files for commercial printing.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Creating PDFs from Technical Documents

Topic 1A: Create PDF Documents Using Microsoft Visio

Topic 1B: Create PDF Documents Using Autodesk AutoCAD

Topic 1C: Measure Technical Drawing Content

Lesson 2: Enhancing PDF Documents

Topic 2A: Embed Multimedia

Topic 2B: Create Actions

Topic 2C: Index Documents

Topic 2D: Optimize PDF Files

Topic 2E: Batch Process PDF Documents

Topic 2F: Make a PDF Document More Accessible

Topic 2G: Repurpose a PDF Document for Other Displays

Lesson 3: Creating Interactive PDF Forms in Adobe LiveCycle Designer

Topic 3A: Create a PDF Form

Topic 3B: Add Text Form Fields

Topic 3C: Create Calculations

Topic 3D: Create Fields with Predefined Responses

Topic 3E: Create Buttons

Topic 3F: Track Forms

Topic 3G: Compile Returned Forms into a PDF Package

Topic 3H: Organize Collected Data in a Spreadsheet

Lesson 4: Preparing PDF Files for Commercial Printing

Topic 4A: Examine the Commercial Printing Process

Topic 4B: Choose Appropriate Methods of Creating PDF Files for Prepress

Topic 4C: Apply Color Management Settings

Topic 4D: Create and Apply Appropriate Adobe PDF Settings for Prepress

Topic 4E: Preview Printed Effects on Screen

Lesson 5: Finalizing PDF Files for Commercial Printing

Topic 5A: Preflight Documents

Topic 5B: Create PDF/X and PDF/A Compliant Files

Topic 5C: Create a Composite

Topic 5D: Create Color Separations

Appendix A: Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) Program®