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  • Acrobat Beginner Course
  • Acrobat Advanced Course

Course Date  City Course Times    Cost
November        
07 Nov Live Online 0830 - 1600    R2995 Book
28 Nov Live Online 0900 - 1600    R2500 Book

Course Date  City Course Times    Cost  
 
07 Nov Live Online 0830 - 1600    R2995 Book
28 Nov Live Online 0900 - 1600    R2500 Book

Acrobat Beginner Course

Course Description:

Adobe Acrobat Beginners course will teach students fundamental concepts and terminology, and the basic features of Adobe Acrobat X Pro. Students will learn PDF basics and explore the Acrobat interface. They'll learn how to navigate and organise PDF documents.


Students will learn how to create a PDF document from within Acrobat. They will also create PDF documents from within other applications, and create documents from Web pages. They will learn to modify PDF content by rearranging, editing, and formatting existing text; and by adding headers, footers, watermarks, and backgrounds. They'll learn how to insert multimedia content, including audio, video, and flash files. They'll add bookmarks and links, and improve accessibility in a document.


Students will learn to manage security issues by using password encryption and digital signatures. They'll explore document review techniques, including the use of comments, markups, and automated reviews, such as Page View Sharing and Collaborate Live.


Target Audience:

Anybody that has little or no experience with Adobe Acrobat X. Students will get the most out of this course if their goal is to become proficient using Adobe Acrobat X Pro to create, modify and review PDF documents.


Pre requisites:

Good working knowledge of the Windows Operating System and proper IT skills.

Acrobat Beginner Course

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Course Outline

1.  Getting Started

  • • The Acrobat environment
  • • Advanced navigation
  • • Finding text
  • • Getting help
  • • Setting preferences


2.  Creating PDF Documents

  • • Printing to PDF from any application
  • • Acrobat PDF Maker
  • • The Create PDF commands


3.  Modifying PDF Documents

  • • Moving document pages
  • • Modifying content
  • • Moving PDF content to other programs
  • • Adding multimedia
  • • Optimising PDF file size


4.  Document Navigation Tools

  • • Working with bookmarks
  • • Working with links


5.  PDF Accessibility

  • • Accessible documents
  • • Accessibility in the Acrobat environment


6.  Document Security

  • • Password protection
  • • Digital signatures
  • • Encryption certification and security envelopes
  • • Adobe Live Cycle Rights Management ES encryption
  • • Password and certificate security policies


7.  Document Review Techniques

  • • Document reviews
  • • Reviewer tools
  • • Managing comments and mark-ups

Our goal is to make sure your training meets your objectives, not ours. Therefore, all of our outlines are used as guidelines for particular courses. This outline does not guarantee that all the topics listed will be covered in the time allowed. The amount of material covered is based on the skill level of the student audience. We may change or alter course topics to best suit the classroom situation.

Sorry, we currently do not have any public courses scheduled for the Acrobat level 2 course. Please contact us to see if we can put one on the schedule for you

Sorry, we currently do not have any public courses scheduled for the Acrobat level 2 course. Please contact us to see if we can put one on the schedule for you

Acrobat Advanced Course

Course Description:

This course builds on the fundamentals taught in Acrobat X Pro: Basic. Students will learn how to ​produce high-quality PDF documents for press. They will learn how to discover geospatial data in a PDF map. They will learn prepress techniques including colour management, proofing and converting colours, colour separations, managing links, trapping, and transparency flattening.


Students will use the Preflight feature to test and convert a document to comply with print provider requirements or ISO9000 standards such as PDF/X, PDF/A, or PDF/E. Students will learn how to interact forms using both the Form Editor as well as Live Cycle Designer ES2. They will learn to distribute PDF documents and forms, and to compile form data returned from users.


Target Audience:

Students taking this course should have some experience using Adobe Acrobat X Pro to generate and modify PDF documents.Students will get the most of this course if their goal is to become proficient at using Adobe Acrobat X Pro to generate PDF documents intended for professional print production, manage colour in PDF documents and create interactive PDF forms.


Pre requisites:

Completed Adobe Acrobat Beginners or have equivalent working knowledge.

Acrobat Advanced Course

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Course Outline

1.  High-Quality PDF's

  • • PDF generation methods
  • • PDF file attributes
  • • PDF settings
  • • Geospatial data


2.  Colour Management

  • • Colour management basics
  • • Colour management workflow
  • • Soft-proofing colours
  • • Converting colours


3.  Colour Separations

  • • Colour separation setup
  • • Separations preview
  • • Ink Manager
  • • Trapping
  • • Transparency flattening
  • • Printing colour separations


4.  Pre-flight and Validation

  • • Print problems
  • • Pre-flight profiles
  • • Pre-flight reports
  • • Pre-flight droplets
  • • Validation and conversion


5.  Interactive PDF Forms

  • • Forms and Live Cycle Designer ES2
  • • Creating a form
  • • Working with form fields
  • • Modifying a form
  • • Testing a form


6.  PDF Distribution and Management

  • • PDF distribution
  • • Form management 


Our goal is to make sure your training meets your objectives, not ours. Therefore, all of our outlines are used as guidelines for particular courses. This outline does not guarantee that all the topics listed will be covered in the time allowed. The amount of material covered is based on the skill level of the student audience. We may change or alter course topics to best suit the classroom situation.

Sorry, we currently do not have any public courses scheduled for the Acrobat level 3 course. Please contact us to see if we can put one on the schedule for you

Sorry, we currently do not have any public courses scheduled for the Acrobat level 3 course. Please contact us to see if we can put one on the schedule for you

Course schedule subject to change without notice