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Book this course and claim 1 day free training with the Flexideal^®

 

This course can be taken as one continuous block or broken down into smaller segments, namely Acrobat Introduction - 2 days, Acrobat Advanced - 2 days. There is no extra charge to split your course and some people prefer to learn over a longer period.

 

About this course

Go from Acrobat novice to power user in 4 days – ideally suited for people who wish to grasp the concept of Adobe PDF in both a business and a publishing environment.

Who is this course for?

This course is excellent for beginners and for those who are new to Acrobat and who wish to learn the major features of a powerful tool used in business and publishing.

Assumed knowledge

You do not require any previous Acrobat skills.

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
• Extraction of information
• Editing content
• Convert static forms to intelligent PDF forms
• Add form fields and form logic
• Prepare form for distribution
• Test and collate data through response file
• Examine data through Excel or via acrobat.com
• Secure PDF files
• Acrobat Connect
• Optimise PDFs for the Web
• Inserting Flash Video and SWF into PDF
• Applying multimedia content inside a PDF
• Configure and send PDFs for review remotely
• Send for Review and Collaborate 'Live'
• Create and apply a digital signature
• Apply digital signatures through certification
• Adobe Policy Server and Rights Management
• Create a security envelope
• Create PDFs to PDF/X
• Check PDFs for print problems (preflight)
• Fix PDFs through preflight
• Redaction
• Accessibility overview

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Training Book

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Course outline

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

Playing Adobe Flash inside Acrobat

• Embed FLV and SWF files into Acrobat
• Benefits of Adobe Flash runtime
• Conversion and viewing options
• Managing Flash content inside Acrobat

Digital signatures

• Creating a password-driven digital signature
• Creating a signature appearance
• Signing a document – visibly and invisibly
• Exchanging digital signatures
• Creating trusted identities
• Applying security policies with trusted identities 

Stamp customisation

• Making a signature stamp
• Configure user preferences for stamps
• Printing and flattening stamps 

Send for Shared Review

• Online workflow
• Sending a shared review invite
• Connecting to shared server
• Adding and manipulating comments
• Collaborate Live on the same page
• Shared Tracker Review

Collaborate Live

• Send for shared review
• Use Acrobat.com hosting
• Collaborate together within page
• Shared panel options
• Combined input

PDF/X standards for publishing and print

• PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3 and PDF/X-4 standards 
• Adobe PDF Print Engine

Configure Adobe Acrobat 

• Page box geometry
• Overprint preview
• Page display options
• Smooth line art

Output preview

• Simulation Preview
• Object Inspector
• Density readings
• Rich ink control
• Overprinting objects 

Preflight and fix-ups

• Preflight templates
• Fix-ups options
• Build your own fix-up
• Building profiles
• Conversion to PDF/X
• Conversion to PDF/A
• Preflight and fix-ups droplets

Convert colours 

• Conversion from one colour space to another
• Embed output intent

Crop pages

• Enlarge PDF page sizes
• Configure page boxes
• Trim, bleed, crop, media and crop box

Flatten transparency 

• Flatten live transparency
• Preview and conversion settings
• Transparency overview

Accessibility from Microsoft Word

• Setting document structure
• Using styles and choosing fonts
• Document Properties
• Tables and lists

PDF Maker options for reflow

• Setting options
• Importance of reflow
• Metadata
• PDF presets and options

Accessibility checker

• Checking the PDF for accessibility
• Understanding and fixing most common problems

Adding and modifying tags / structure

• Changing the reading order of a tagged document
• Adding document structure to an untagged document
• Adding alt tags to objects
• Remapping to artefacts and other elements

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Training Book

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Offers

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 scheduled training at our London Covent Garden or Cardiff training centres – that's the FlexiDeal^®.

 

If you are self-funding your training then for special scheduled training pricing click here.

 

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 Forms (1 day)

After Effects

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

Digital Publishing Suite (InDesign to Tablet)

• DPS Essentials (1 day) £70 + VAT extra charge
• DPS Full Solution (2 days) £100 + VAT extra charge

Dreamweaver

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

Edge

• Edge Essentials (1 day)

Illustrator

• Illustrator Introduction (1 day)
• Illustrator Introduction (2 day)
• Illustrator Advanced (2 day)
• Illustrator Advanced Power User
• Illustrator Masterclass (4 day)

InDesign

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

MUSE

• MUSE Essentials (1 day)

Photoshop

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

Premiere Pro

• 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^®.

FlexiDeal+ (plus)

If you wish to keep onto your FlexiDeal credits for longer than 6 months (no expiry) then it's only £50 + VAT for this option - please mention when booking.

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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Training dates

This course can also be taken as split courses

 

Acrobat Introduction - 2 days

 

London Covent Garden

10 - 11 July 2013

4 - 5 September 2013

 

Cardiff

10 - 11 July 2013

18 - 19 September 2013

27 - 28 November 2013

 

Bristol

10 - 11 July 2013

18 - 19 September 2013

27 - 28 November 2013

 

Acrobat Advanced - 2 days

 

If you don't see any suitable dates here, it might be more economical to deliver a private training course for you

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Further information

Our guarantee of training satisfaction

No questions, no quibbles, no problem! Should you ever need to take your course again, just let us know. Find out more…

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

We provide flexible lunch vouchers which can be redeemed at outlets nearby such as Bella Italia, Burger King, Boots, Co-operative, Eat, Greggs, McDonalds, Nandos, Pizza Express, Pret A Manger, Starbucks, Sainsbury's and Tesco to name but a few.

Support

We supply 6-months rock-solid support via email on the subject matter covered during the course. Find out more…

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You can use the form below to make a course reservation with Certitec. We are an established company with over 15 years experience training Adobe products and have a high regard in the industry. Alternatively just call us on 0800 0789 462.

 

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