Adobe® Acrobat® 9.0 Pro: Level 2

Upcoming Class Dates

June 12th, 2012
July 10th, 2012
August 14th, 2012

(Toronto location only)

Course Specifications

Course number: 084022
Course length: 1.0 day(s)

Course Description

As a business professional, you have some experience in using Adobe® Acrobat®. Now, you are ready to further develop your PDF documents. In this course, you will use Adobe® Acrobat® 9.0 Pro 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® 9.0 Pro to convert documents to PDF files, enhance and customize PDF documents for interactive use online, and prepare them for printing.

Target Student: The target student for this course are office professionals who want to employ the advanced productivity and creative features of Acrobat 9.0 Pro

Prerequisites: : Adobe® Acrobat® 9.0 Pro: Level 1

Performance-Based Objectives

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

create PDF files from technical documents.
enhance the utility and accessibility of PDF documents.
create interactive PDF forms using Adobe LiveCycle Designer.
make a PDF document ready for commercial printing.
finalize PDF files for commercial printing.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Creating PDFs from Technical Documents

Topic 1A: Create PDF Documents Using Autodesk AutoCAD
Topic 1B: Measure Technical Drawings

Lesson 2: Enhancing PDF Documents

Topic 2A: Embed Multimedia
Topic 2B: Optimize PDF Files
Topic 2C: Enhance PDF Document Accessibility

Lesson 3: Creating Interactive PDF Forms in Adobe LiveCycle Designer

Topic 3A: Create a PDF Form
Topic 3B: Add Form Fields
Topic 3C: Create Calculations
Topic 3D: Create Buttons
Topic 3E: Track Forms
Topic 3F: Compile Returned Forms
Topic 3G: Organize Compiled Data

Lesson 4: Preparing PDF Files for Commercial Printing

Topic 4A: Examine the Commercial Printing Process
Topic 4B: Create PDF Files for Prepress
Topic 4C: Apply Color Management Settings
Topic 4D: Modify Adobe PDF Settings for Prepress
Topic 4E: Preview Printed Effects

Lesson 5: Finalizing PDF Files for Commercial Printing

Topic 5A: Preflight Documents
Topic 5B: Create PDF/X, PDF/A, and PDF/E Compliant Files
Topic 5C: Create a Composite
Topic 5D: Create Color Separations

Appendix A: Miscellaneous Features

Supplemental Lesson Adding Enhancements

Topic 1A: Index Documents
Topic 1B: Batch Process PDF Documents
Topic 1C: Repurpose PDF Document Content