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Acrobat® 6.0: Professional for Creative and Print Professionals (Windows)

Course Type: Self-paced Courses
Estimated Time of Completion: 3 hour(s) 12 minutes
CEU Credits:
Language: English

Description: As a creative professional, you've been responsible for creating documents using design software and have probably shared those documents with others, such as colleagues, clients, and reviewers. You've probably shared printed copies of your documents with others, may have sent documents to a commercial printer, and may have shared documents electronically by emailing them as well. Now you may need to share electronic versions of the documents with others who may not have the software that was used to create them. In this course, you'll use Adobe Acrobat 6.0 to convert documents to PDF, and will customize those PDF documents for interactive online use as well as for commercial printing. The target student for this course is a professional in the creative, or printing field who needs to distribute documents intended for use through the Web, or for commercial printing.
Objectives:

  · In this course, you will efficiently create, enhance, and access graphically rich and multimedia information within PDF documents for both interactive online use and commercial printing.

Hardware and Software Required:

  · Browser Netscape Communicator 4.0
  · Browser Other: AOL 4.0
  · Operating System MacOS 8.5
  · Browser Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0
  · Operating System MS-Windows 95

Content Outline:

Course Introduction
Course Introduction

Accessing Information in PDF Documents
Lesson Introduction
Browse Through a PDF Document
Navigate to Specific Content Within a PDF Document
Find and Edit Text
Export Content from a PDF Document
Lesson Lab Accessing Information in the Employee Benefits Document
Lesson Follow Up

Creating PDF Documents for Electronic Use
Lesson Introduction
Create PDF Files from Within Applications
Add Bookmarks
Add Links
Add Articles
Create a PDF File from HTML Documents
Embed Multimedia
Create Actions
Optimize PDF Files
Batch Process PDF Documents
Lesson Lab Creating PDF Documents for Various Clients
Lesson Follow Up

Creating Interactive PDF Forms
Lesson Introduction
Create Text Form Fields
Create Fields with Predefined Options
Create Buttons
Create Tables and Calculations
Lesson Lab Creating a Membership Form
Lesson Follow Up

Preparing PDF Files for Commercial Printing
Lesson Introduction
Choose Appropriate Methods of Creating PDF Files for Prepress
Display Color Accurately
Select Appropriate Adobe PDF Settings for Prepress
Preview Printed Effects on Screen
Preflight Documents
Create PDF/X Compliant Files
Lesson Lab Preparing the Zing! Ad and NAU Brochure for Commercial Printing
Lesson Follow Up

Printing
Lesson Introduction
Print a Composite
Create Color Separations
Lesson Lab Printing a Composite and Separations of the NAU Brochure
Lesson Follow Up

Course Follow Up
Course Follow Up