Acrobat Introduction - 2 days

This course is guaranteed to be delivered by an Adobe Certified Instructor from Certitec - our pledge of excellence.

 

OFFER - If you book this course you are entitled to £100 credit for any further course with FlexiCredit.

 

 

 

Improve the way in which you create, combine, distribute and share Adobe PDF documents with this highly acclaimed introduction course. We concentrate on the major areas of Adobe Acrobat – creating, combining, editing and securing, and also harnessing the power of Acrobat PDF forms.

Who is this course for?

This course is excellent for beginners and for those who are new to Acrobat and who wish to extend their basic knowledge (day 1) and start building intelligent PDF forms (day 2).

Assumed knowledge

You do not require any previous knowledge of Acrobat.

What you will learn

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

 

• Generate PDF documents
• Understand different PDF conversion options
• Evaluate integration with Microsoft Office
• Combine PDFs
• Extract information
• Edit content
• Convert static forms to intelligent PDF forms
• Add form fields and form logic
• Prepare forms for distribution
• Test and collate data through response files
• Examine data through Excel or via Acrobat.com
• Secure PDF files.

 

Related Courses

Acrobat Masterclass - 4 days

Livecycle Designer - 2 day

Acrobat Advanced - 2 days

 

Training Dates

London Covent Garden Add dates to your calendar

6 - 7 June 2012

18 - 19 July 2012

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Cardiff Add dates to your calendar

7 - 8 June 2012

16 - 17 July 2012

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Bristol Add dates to your calendar

7 - 8 June 2012

16 - 17 July 2012

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• 6 months support
• Tips and tricks
• Lunch and refreshments
• Satisfaction Guarantee

Acrobat Introduction - 2 days

Create PDF from Microsoft Office

• Generate PDFs from Microsoft Office
• The PDF Maker
• Embedding bookmarks, TOC (Tables of contents), links

Document repurposing

• Powerpoint to PDF presentations
• HTML pages to PDF

Acrobat Distiller

• Create low- and high-quality PDFs
• Impact of resolution and font embedding
• PDF versioning

Generating PDF from Web pages

• Conversion options
• Selection mode
• Output control
• Embedded media settings
• Flash control

Combining PDFs

• Combine PDFs into a single file
• Combine PDFs into PDF Portfolios
• Advantages of single files
• Advantages of PDF Portfolios
• PDF Portfolio deep dive

Layout modes

• Appending different media
• Customising Portfolios
• Home, index and list modes
• Uploading to Acrobat.com

The Organiser

• Explore the Organiser
• Favourite places
• Exploring metadata
• Network places

Navigating

• New customised toolbars
• Reset workspace
• Navigating views and pages
• Keyboard shortcuts

Editing and repurposing

• Use the touch-up text tool
• Change properties
• Save out images
• Document-wide extraction
• Conversion options

Secure your PDF file

• Different types of Acrobat security
• Security Policies
• Applying security and testing
• Password and permissions restrictions
• Removing security
• Acrobat 8.2.3 security implications

Optimise your PDF file

• Check for file content
• Reduce image size and compression
• Edit font embedding and remove metadata
• Flatten forms fields, remove comments 

Acrobat.com

• Hosted Adobe service
• Connect as repository
• Product overview
• Creating a user account
• Remote presentations
• Gaining control of a user's desktop
• Chat and communication pods
• Adobe Buzzword
• File Manager and uploading 

Adobe PDF forms generation

• Generating a simple PDF (Acro) form
• Discussing Adobe Livecycle Designer
• Examples of Form field recognition
• Understanding form field types
• Recycle fields across documents
• Repeating fields and form logic
• Naming fields and workflow considerations
• Form logic and validation
• Using simplified field notation
• Mandatory form entry and options
• Sending a forms workflow message
• Configure the reset, print and submit buttons
• Personal or workgroup form distribution
• Submitting and saving data with Adobe Reader
• Using the forms tracker
• Adobe Reader Extensions
• Collecting data and analysis
• Filtering and sorting results
• Response file and PDF Portfolios
• Merging older responses into current
• Exporting to CSV and XML

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Acrobat Introduction - 2 days

Offers

FlexiCredit

FlexiDeal^®

The FlexiCredit - earn rewards on short courses

It's very simple: get rewarded if you book any of our short courses with training credits. Just book any 1-day or 2-day scheduled course at our London Covent Garden or Cardiff training centres and you will receive credit towards any course in the future – that's the FlexiCredit!

 

You can use these credits within 12 months of your first qualifying booking, and even accumulate your FlexiCredits.

Collecting FlexiCredits

• Book a 1-day course - get £70 + VAT off a future course
• Book a 2-day course - get £100 + VAT off a future course

 

This offer does not include private training

How to book

Just email us confirmation of your valid booking(s) that qualified for the FlexiCredit.

Terms and conditions

• The FlexiCredit scheme started on the 22nd August, 2011 and only applies to bookings after this date
• FlexiCredits can only be used as payment or part-payment towards a Certitec training course running at locations mentioned
• You will be emailed your FlexiCredits after payment and completion of your course with Certitec
• FlexiCredit is applicable only if the full RRP is paid for your course(s). Any discounting invalidates the FlexiCredit. If discounting has been applied you can pay back the difference in order to qualify for the offer
• Any booking paid or part-paid by a FlexiCredit does not earn FlexiCredits
• FlexiCredits cannot be used against any 'special deals' - only courses on our main website
• You can 'give' your FlexiCredits to another person/company providing you email us intention of 'hand-over' and the delegate name(s) for the course benefitting from the credits. This will entail an administration charge of either £50 + VAT or the same number of FlexiCredits.
• The FlexiCredit offer lasts for 12 months from the first date of your qualifying booking(s).

 

The FlexiDeal^® - free training

Our courses come with free training at London Covent Garden and Cardiff!

It's very simple: just book a day of private training or one of our 3-day, 4-day or 5-day scheduled courses (or any combination days) and you'll qualify for additional free training at our London Covent Garden or Cardiff training centres – that's the FlexiDeal^®.

And as long as you take these additional courses within 6 months of your first qualifying booking, you can even accumulate your FlexiDeal®.

Collecting FlexiDeals^®

• Book a 1-day private course – get 1 day free
• Book a 3-day scheduled course – get 1 day free
• Book a 4-day scheduled course – get 1 day free
• Book a 5-day scheduled course – get 2 days free
  
  

See below for courses you can claim for free in the FlexiDeal^®

Acrobat

• Acrobat Essentials (1 day)
• Acrobat Introduction (2 day)
  
• Acrobat Advanced (2 day)
  
• Acrobat Forms (1 day)
• Acrobat ACE (2 day)

After Effects

• After Effects Introduction (2 day)
• After Effects Advanced (3 day)
• After Effects Masterclass (5 day)

Dreamweaver

• Dreamweaver Web Building Introduction (3 day)
• Dreamweaver Web Building Masterclass + Certification (5 day)
• Dreamweaver ACA Prep + Exam (1 day)
• Dreamweaver ACE (2 day)

Flash

• Flash Introduction (2 day)

Illustrator

• Illustrator Introduction (1 day)
• Illustrator Introduction (2 day)
• Illustrator Advanced (2 day)
• Illustrator Masterclass (4 day)
• Illustrator ACE (2 day)

InDesign

• InDesign Introduction (1 day)
• InDesign Interactive (1 day)
• InDesign Print Production (1 day)
• InDesign Introduction (2 day)
• InDesign Advanced (2 day)
• InDesign ePub (1 day)
• InDesign iPad+Android (1 day)
• InDesign Masterclass (4 day)
• InDesign ACE (2 day)

Photoshop

• Photoshop Introduction (2 day)
• Photoshop Advanced (2 day)
• Photoshop Masterclass (4 days)
• Photoshop Masterclass + Certification (5 day)
• Photoshop ACE (2 day)

Premiere Pro (Cardiff only)

• Premiere Pro Introduction (3 day)

• Premiere Pro Intermediate + Certification (2 day)
• Premiere Pro Masterclass + Certification (5 day)

How to book

Just email us confirmation of your valid booking(s) that qualified for the FlexiDeal^®.

Terms and conditions

• FlexiDeal^® is applicable only if the full RRP is paid for your course(s). Any discounting invalidates the FlexiDeal^®. If discounting has been applied you can pay back the difference in order to qualify for the offer
• The FlexiDeal^® offer lasts for 6 months from the first date of your qualifying bookings
• The FlexiDeal^® is not available to funded individuals although we might apply at our descretion depending upon the number of training days booked under the particular scheme

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18 - 19 July 2012

30 - 31 August 2012

26 - 27 September 2012

21 - 22 November 2012

 

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16 - 17 July 2012

10 - 11 September 2012

5 - 6 November 2012

 

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16 - 17 July 2012

16 - 17 July 2012

10 - 11 September 2012

5 - 6 November 2012

5 - 6 November 2012

 

 

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Requirements

• Basic knowledge of Windows or Macintosh.
• Understand how to launch an application and save files.
• For web courses you will need to have knowledge of web browsers.

General information

• Courses start at 10am and finish at 5pm. Please arrive 30 minutes prior to the start of the course on the first day.
• We operate a casual dress code.
• We supply all computers, software and courseware, pads, pens, lunch and refreshments.
• We have both Apple OSX Lion and Windows 7 systems.
• Bring along a USB/Flash drive so you can take away your course files.
• Following your course, we will email you an Adobe Authorised Course Completion Certificate.
• Each course comes with either on-line assets (electronic book/PDF or movies) to download or a high-quality Visual Quickstart 500-page training book. We are migrating most course assets to on-line downloads during 2012.
• Access to a secure section of our site that offers useful tips and tricks.

Lunch

London Covent Garden and Cardiff - Flexible lunch vouchers are used and redeemable at outlets nearby such as Bella Italia, Eat, Nandos, Pizza Express, Pret A Manger, Starbucks, Sainsbury's and Tesco to name but a few.

Bristol - Look out for our designer cold buffet lunch.

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