Overview
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Demonstrates how to create, modify, review, and share PDFs in Adobe Acrobat X.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Opening documents and moving them around
- Working with the toolbars
- Working with the panels
- Customizing the toolbar with Quick Tools
- Using the Pages panel to navigate
- Selecting and copying text and graphics
- Rotating pages
- Changing the viewing options
- Reviewing preferences
- Finding words and phrases
- Searching a PDF and working with the Search panel
- Sharing PDFs by email and with Adobe SendNow
- Creating PDFs from Microsoft Office applications
- Creating PDFs from Creative Suite applications
- Creating PDFs from within Acrobat Pro
- Creating PDFs from a web site
- Creating PDFs from the clipboard
- Editing text
- Adding text
- Editing images and graphics
- Changing the page number display
- Digitally signing PDFs
- Cropping pages and documents
- Adding watermarks
- Adding page backgrounds
- Adding page numbers
- Adding headers and footers
- Adding bookmarks
- Attaching files to a PDF
- Adding metadata
- Optimizing a PDF for file size and compatibility
- Creating initial view settings
- Adding hyperlinks to URLs
- Creating links with the Link tool
- Working with interactive actions
- Creating and adding buttons
- Adding video, sound, and SWF files
- Adding page transitions
- Extracting pages
- Splitting a PDF into multiple files
- Inserting pages from files and other sources
- Moving, copying, and replacing pages
- Combining PDFs
- Exporting text
- Exporting images
- Exporting PDFs to Microsoft Word
- Exporting PDFs to Microsoft Excel
- Working with portfolios
- Creating portfolios
- Customizing portfolios
- Optimizing backward compatibility
- Creating an interactive form
- Working with form fields
- Editing field properties
- Distributing and collecting forms
- Enabling Reader to save form data
- Adding sticky notes and other annotations
- Using the drawing markup tools
- Viewing, filtering, and replying to comments
- Printing, summarizing, and exporting comments
- Exporting comments to Word for Windows
- Enabling extended commenting in Acrobat Reader
- Understanding the different review processes
- Using the email review process
- Conducting a shared review with Acrobat.com
- Using the Review Tracker
- Using the Collaborate Live review process
- Reviewing the print production tools
- Previewing color separations
- Using the Object Inspector to learn details
- Working with the Preflight dialog box
- Fixing hairlines
- Converting colors
- Saving as a standards-compliant PDF
- Scanning a paper document to PDF
- Setting up optimization options
- Recognizing text in a scanned PDF
- Reviewing and correcting OCR suspects
- Using the built-in Actions for automation
- Editing Actions
- Creating new Actions
- Sharing Actions with others
- Choosing a security method
- Password-protecting a PDF
- Securing a PDF with a certificate
- Creating a digital id
- Removing sensitive content with the Redaction feature
- Revealing and clearing hidden information
- Opening and navigating PDFs in Reader
- Adding comments
- Viewing extended features
- Digitally signing a PDF
- Sharing PDFs
- Using Acrobat.com
- Final thoughts
