Overview

Adobe Acrobat 8 - Is the Application used almost universally to create and view portable document formatted (PDF) documents.

Acrobat 8 will allow you to combine documents, drawings, and rich media content into a single Adobe PDF document.

You will be shown how to arrange files in any order regardless of file type, dimensions, or orientation and how to share documents cross-platform, that allow review participants to see each other’s comments and track the status of the review. It is also possible to track which reviewers have contributed feedback and compile comments into a single PDF document with one-button ease and sort them by author, date, or page.

You will also be shown how to use familiar commenting tools including a highlighter, sticky notes, pencil, strikethrough, and more and how to attach files from other applications inline as comments. Acrobat 8 will also allow you to save PDF files as Microsoft Word documents, retaining the layout, fonts, formatting, and tables, to facilitate reuse of content.

Other key features that you will learn in the suite of Acrobat courses, will enable you to :-

Scan paper documents with OCR technology to create compact, searchable Adobe PDF documents.

Convert Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes e-mail archives to Adobe PDF to facilitate search and retrieval.

Convert web pages to Adobe PDF documents to easily print, archive, mark-up, or share.

Automatically remove headers and footers from source files and add unifying headers, footers, or watermarks to your combined Adobe PDF document.

Apply digital signatures to authenticate documents, manage their status, and help prevent modification.

Create customized combinations of passwords and permissions and save them as security policies that can be easily applied to new Adobe PDF documents.

Create, combine, and control Adobe PDF documents for easy, more secure distribution and collaboration.

The various course outlines will show you the key features relating to each specific Adobe Acrobat 8 course.

Course Summary

The Adobe PDF file format is already broadly used to manage and share documentation related to compliance and regulatory requirements, including control data, and audit data. With Acrobat 3D, you can save time and increaseefficiency by sharing more types of information more easily in more compliance workflows.

Adobe Acrobat 3D Version 8 software offers Graphic Designers, Engineers and technical publishers a complete and more secure way to collaborate with extended teams on 3D designs. Capture 3D designs from Major CAD Applicationsin PDF documents to provide rich, interactive 3D designs to users of free Adobe Reader software (version8.1). Accelerate review cycles, streamline production, help reduce costly redesigns, and leverage existing CAD assets for technical manuals and marketing materials.

Audience

IT professionals and Designers, Engineering Professionals and business users who need to work with 3D content.

On Completion

By attending this two day course you will learn to explore the key features of Adobe Acrobat 8 3D and the capabilities of sharing and working with 3D files effortlessly.

Course Content

Acrobat Overview

Interface
Toolbar
Navigation
Opening and saving
The Organiser
Using the Organiser
Collections
Task Area Dialogs

Create

PDF’s in Word, Excel & Powerpoint
Email archiving
Creating PDFs from a website
Appending From a scanner & blank page
Typewriter tool
Adobe PDF printer
Deleting and replacing pages
Reordering pages
Creating other documents from PDF in Word
HTML/XML
Image files
Accessibility
Bookmarks
Links
Interactive PDF

Combine

Multiple Documents
Single PDF
Packages
Numbering
Headers and footers
Watermarks
Attachments
Email reviews
Shared reviews
Enabling Reader

Layers

Measuring
Stamping
Creating custom stamps

Collaborate

Commenting and review
Adding Comments
Text markups
Drawing markups
Replying to comments

Collect

Form overview
Auto field recognition
Enabling usage rights
Importing form data
Exporting form data

Control

Editing fucntions
Document security
Redaction
Managing print
Preflighting
Loupe tool
Editing Functions

3D

Import
Viewing
Saving views
Lighting
Adding comments
3D Toolkits
Adding animation

Dates

Duration: 2 days
Price: £495