| Information You will create and modify PDF documents using Acrobat in a CAD environment |
Duration |
Cost CLICK HERE FOR PRICING |
Schedule All private classes by arrangement - please call us for dates |
Prerequisites Delegates should be familiar with their computer operating system |
Platform Windows |
1) Overview of Acrobat Family
Adobe Reader, Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional (Standard), Adobe Acrobat Distiller
2) Creating a PDF file
Acrobat Distiller/Adobe PDF creation from chosen application
Create PDF from AutoCAD or Visio documents (rules of deployment) with the PDF-MAKER - Different options for maintaining layers (PDF 1.5), URLs, bookmarks, document structure
Right-click applications from desktop, Print to Distiller as an option, Maintain document layer information
3) Setting Acrobat Distiller options
Understanding the Distiller job options (General/Compression/Fonts/Color/Advanced) - Distiller compression and downsampling options - Why use different options - and when?
4) Other PDF creation methods
Create PDF from TIFF, JPEG, RTF, HTML, MS Office - Create PDF from screenshot (Windows) -
5) Enhancing PDF viewing with technical drawings
View/Rulers/Grids and Guides, Addings headers/footers ... watermark/backgrounds, Magnification options with zoom, dynamic zoom and loupe tool, Measurement tool - distance, area and perimeter tools (access through properties toolbar)
6) Navigation
Navigating a PDF Document - toolbar, keyboard, navigation pane - Change magnification - typical, dynamic, loupe and zoom tools - Display and use bookmarks (shuffle) and thumbnails (resize views) (context menus)
7) Image and Text Manipulation
Cropping PDFs (discuss issues) - Rotating, Moving pages, Extraction, Copying, Deleting - Copy/Paste text from PDF - Saving as other file formats (TIFF, JPEG, RTF, Word) - Exporting images from PDF - Editing Text (Touchup Text Tool), amending text, adding new text - Editing Objects (Touchup Object Tool), moving objects, editing in Photoshop/Illustrator)
8) PDF Optimisation
File/Reduce File Size, PDF Optimiser - PDF versioning, downsampling, unembed fonts, extract document metadata, layers, compression
9) Acrobat Security Methods
Set security - What is security? - Access protection
1. PDF creation - 2. Append to created PDF - 3. Batch Processing
Securing a PDF with passwords and permissions access - Appending Digital signatures and acquiring digital IDs - Certifying a PDF document with permissions - Collaboration with trusted identities
