Class overview :

Class goals :

• Leverage the Portable Document Format (PDF) for effective document management and optimized workflow
• Collaborate for interactive streamlined document reviews
• Create Acrobat forms and submit them electronically
• Apply interactivity to PDFs with actions, bookmarks, buttons and links
• Combine PDF and non-PDF files in a PDF portfolio
• Secure documents against modification or unauthorized viewing

Content of Adobe® Acrobat®: Managing Electronic Documents

Fundamentals of Adobe Acrobat

Exploring Acrobat capabilities

• Navigating the latest version of Adobe Acrobat
• Key Acrobat concepts
• Opening PDFs
• Viewing document metadata

Navigating and configuring the interface

• Customizing the work area
• Adjusting navigation panels
• Optimizing the interface

Creating PDF Documents

Producing PDFs from various sources

• Office documents
• E-mails
• Web pages
• Paper documents

Optimizing PDF files

• Reducing file size
• Managing search indexes

Managing Document Collaboration

Reviewing PDF documents

• Working with comments
• Dynamically adding text or graphics
• Adding sticky notes and highlighting
• Annotating PDF documents with markup tools

Managing and tracking shared document reviews

• Comparing documents to determine differences
• Optimizing office workflow
• Initiating a shared review
• Exporting comments to an Office document

Implementing Electronic Forms

Creating PDF forms

• Converting PDF files to interactive PDF forms
• Adding form fields
• Customizing form fields
• Adding calculations

Distributing forms

• Collecting form data
• Validating input field data
• Performing calculations with numeric fields
• Receiving and processing form data

Enhancing and Editing PDF Documents

Applying interactivity

• Adding and editing links
• Bookmarks
• Creating and configuring an action button
• Producing multimedia presentations
• Incorporating videos and Flash animation

Modifying PDF documents

• Merging PDF documents
• Deleting and renumbering pages
• Rotating and cropping pages
• Adding watermarks
• Converting PDF pages to image format files

Enhancing PDF document accessibility

• Acrobat accessibility features
• Adding alternate text
• Viewing accessible documents

Combining Files in PDF Portfolios

Generating PDF portfolios

• Integrating PDF and non-PDF files into a portfolio
• Branding a portfolio

Leveraging portfolios

• Distributing and sharing a PDF portfolio
• Searching a PDF portfolio
• Sorting components

Adding Security to PDF Files

Controlling access

• Protecting and controlling documents containing sensitive information
• Protecting documents with passwords

Preventing modification

• Ensuring file integrity with digital signatures
• Validating a signed document

Integrating PDF Documents in Your Organization

• Optimizing PDF files for improved Web search engine results
• Preparing PDF documents for professional printing
• Applying Bates numbering
• Mac PDF support
• Translating XML documents to PDF