Acrobat Fundamentals: An Introduction to Acrobat DC

1. Introducing Adobe Acrobat

• About Adobe PDF
• About Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe PDF on the web
• A first look at the work area
• Viewing PDF presentations in Full Screen mode
• Designing documents for online viewing
• Getting help

2. Creating Adobe PDF Files

• About creating Adobe PDF files
• Using the Create command
• Dragging and dropping files
• Converting different types of files
• Using PDFMaker (explained only)
• Using the Print command to create Adobe PDF files
• Reducing file size
• Optimizing PDF files (Acrobat Pro only)
• Scanning a paper document
• Making scanned text editable and searchable
• Converting web pages to Adobe PDF

3. Reading and Working with PDF Files

• Changing the opening view
• About the onscreen display
• Reading PDF documents
• Searching PDF documents
• Printing PDF documents
• Filling out PDF forms
• About flexibility, accessibility, and structure
• Working with accessible documents
• Making files flexible and accessible (Acrobat Pro only)
• Using Acrobat accessibility features (Standard and Pro)
• Sharing PDF files

4. Enhancing PDF Documents

• Examining the work file
• Moving pages with page thumbnails
• Manipulating pages
• Renumbering pages
• Managing links
• Working with bookmarks
• Setting document properties and metadata

5. Editing Content in PDF Files

• Editing text
• Working with images in a PDF file
• Copying text and images from a PDF file
• Exporting PDF content to a PowerPoint presentation
• Saving PDF files as Word documents
• Extracting PDF tables as Excel spreadsheets

6. Combining Files

• About combining files
• Selecting files to combine
• Arranging pages
• Merging the files

7. Adding Signatures and Security

• Getting started
• Viewing documents in Protected Mode (Windows only)
• About security
• Viewing security settings
• Adding security to PDF files
• About digital signatures
• Creating digital signatures
• Signing a document digitally
• Modifying signed documents
• Certifying PDF files
• Signing certified documents
• Exploring on your own: Using security envelopes

8. Using Acrobat in a Review Cycle

• About the review process
• Getting started
• Adding comments to a PDF document
• Working with comments
• Initiating a shared review

9. Working with Forms in Acrobat

• Getting started
• Converting PDF files to interactive PDF forms
• Adding form fields
• Distributing forms
• Collecting form data
• Working with form data
• Exploring on your own: Calculating and validating numeric fields

10. Using Actions (Acrobat Pro)

• About actions
• Using predefined actions
• Creating an action
• Sharing actions

11. Using Acrobat in Professional Printing

• Creating PDF files for print and prepress
• Preflighting files (Acrobat Pro)
• Working with transparency (Acrobat Pro)
• Setting up color management
• Previewing your print job (Acrobat Pro)
• Advanced printing controls