Course Description

As a workplace professional with some experience in using Adobe Acrobat, you are now ready to further develop your PDF documents. In this course, you will use Adobe Acrobat® 7.0 Professional 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.

Course Objective: You will use Adobe Acrobat® 7.0 Professional 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.

 

 

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Performance-Based Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• create PDFs from technical documents.
• enhance the utility and accessibility of PDF documents.
• create interactive PDF forms.
• begin preparing a PDF document for commercial printing.
• create composite and color separation prints from a PDF document.

 

 

 

 

Course Content

Lesson 1: Creating PDFs from Technical Documents
Topic 1A: Create PDF Documents from within Microsoft Visio
Topic 1B: Create PDF Documents from within Autodesk AutoCAD
Topic 1C: Measure Technical Drawing Content
                          
Lesson 2: Enhancing PDF Documents
Topic 2A: Embed Multimedia
Topic 2B: Create Actions
Topic 2C: Optimize PDF Files
Topic 2D: Batch Process PDF Documents
Topic 2E: Make a PDF Document More Accessible
Topic 2F: Repurpose a PDF Document for Other Displays

Lesson 3: Creating Interactive PDF Forms in Adobe Designer
Topic 3A: Create a PDF Form
Topic 3B: Add Text Form Fields
Topic 3C: Create Calculations
Topic 3D: Create Fields with Predefined Responses
Topic 3E: Create Buttons
Topic 3F: Organize Collected Data in a Spreadsheet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lesson 4: Preparing PDF Files for Commercial Printing
Topic 4A: Examine the Commercial Printing Process
Topic 4B: Choose Appropriate Methods of Creating PDF Files for Prepress
Topic 4C: Apply Color Management Settings
Topic 4D: Create and Apply Appropriate Adobe PDF Settings for Prepress
Topic 4E: Preview Printed Effects on Screen

Lesson 5: Finalizing PDF Files for Commercial Printing
Topic 5A: Preflight Documents
Topic 5B: Create PDF/X-Compliant Files
Topic 5C: Create a Composite
Topic 5D: Create Color Separations

Appendix A: Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) Program®