Acrobat Fundamentals: An Introduction to Acrobat DC

Module 1: Introducing Adobe Acrobat DC

• About the PDF file format
• About Adobe Acrobat
• About Adobe Reader
• About the Acrobat DC mobile app
• Using PDF on the web
• Opening a PDF file
• Working with toolbars
• Working with tools
• Viewing PDF presentations in Full Screen mode
• Viewing PDF files in Read mode
• Customizing the Acrobat toolbar

Module 2: Creating Adobe PDF Files

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

Module 3: Reading and Working with PDF Files

• About the on screen 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
• Using Acrobat accessibility features)
• Sharing PDF files

Module 4: Enhancing PDF Documents

• Examining the work file
• Moving pages with page thumbnails
• Manipulating pages
• Splitting Cropping & Rotating Pages
• Renumbering pages
• Applying Bates numbering
• Managing links
• Working with bookmarks
• Setting document properties and metadata

Module 5: Editing Content in PDF Files

• Editing text
• Placing & Working with images in a PDF file
• Text Redaction
• Comparing Documents
• 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

Module 6: Using Acrobat with Microsoft Office Files (Windows only)

• Acrobat PDFMaker
• Converting Microsoft Word files to Adobe PDF
• Converting Excel documents
• Converting PowerPoint presentations

Module 7: Combining Files

• About combining files
• Selecting files to combine
• Arranging pages
• Setting Conversion Options
• Merging the files
• Creating a PDF Portfolio

Module 8: Adding Signatures and Security

• Getting started with Security
• Viewing documents in Protected Mode in Reader (Windows only)
• About security in Acrobat
• Viewing security settings
• Adding security to PDF files
• Using Digital signatures
• Sending a document for others to sign
• Creating digital signatures
• Signing a document digitally with certificates and digital IDs
• Modifying signed documents
• Certifying PDF files
• Signing certified documents

Module 9: Using Acrobat in a Review Cycle

• About the review process
• Adding comments to a PDF document
• Working with comments
• Initiating an email-based review

Module 10: Working with Forms in Acrobat

• Converting PDF files to interactive PDF forms
• Adding form fields
• Types of form fields
• Distributing forms
• Collecting form data
• Working with form data
• Calculating and validating numeric fields

Module 11: Using Actions

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

Module 12: Using Acrobat in Professional Printing

• Creating PDF files for print and prepress
• Guidelines for creating print-ready PDF files
• Preflighting files
• Working with transparency
• PDF standards
• About flattening options in the - - Flattener Preview dialog box
• Setting up color management
• Previewing your print job
• Advanced printing controls