1 Day Course

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® 9.0 Pro 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.

Performance-based objectives

• Create PDF files from technical documents.
• Enhance the utility and accessibility of PDF documents.
• Create interactive PDF forms using Adobe livecycle Designer.
• Make a PDF document ready for commercial printing.
• Finalize PDF files for commercial printing

Prerequisites

Experience using Acrobat, Standard or Professional edition or Adobe® Acrobat® 9.0 Pro: Level 1.

Course Content

Creating PDFs from Technical Documents

• Create PDF Documents Using Autodesk AutoCAD
• Measure Technical Drawings

Enhancing PDF Documents

• Embed Multimedia
• Optimize PDF Files
• Enhance PDF Document Accessibility

Creating Interactive PDF Forms in Adobe LiveCycle Designer

• Create a PDF Form
• Add Form Fields
• Create Calculations
• Create Fields with Predefined Responses
• Create Buttons
• Track Forms
• Compile Returned Forms
• Organize Compiled Data

Preparing PDF Files for Commercial Printing

• Examine the Commercial Printing Process
• Create PDF Files for Prepress
• Apply Color Management Settings
• Modify Adobe PDF Settings for Prepress
• Preview Printed Effects

Finalizing PDF Files for Commercial Printing

• Preflight Documents
• Create PDF/X and PDF/A Compliant Files
• Create a Composite
• Create Color Separations