COURSES
COURSES - Graphic Design - ADOBE ACROBAT
Learn To
  • Generate PDF files from any application
  • Rearrange PDF pages
  • Add links to documents
  • Create articles
  • Modify PDF output quality
  • Make simple acrobat edits
  • Add comments to Acrobat files
  • Sign an acrobat document ...and much more
Course Audience
Desktop publishersm graphic designers and users needing more familiarity with Adobe Acrobat.
Course Duration
1/2 Day
Course Overview

Adobes Acrobat is evolving as the DTP standard for document dissemination. An understanding of Acrobat and other graphics formats (postscript, TIFF etc.) is crucial for the successful designer.

The .PDF format is widely used for distributing documents on the web and within an organisation and may surpass Postscript as the format of choice for traditional publishing. Acrobat also supports a wide range interactive and multimedia facilities enabling the annotation and enhancement of traditional page documents.

This course takes users through the PDF production process to create acrobat files with the necessary embedded information and the knowledge to exploit the powerful additional functionality available in Acrobat.

Note that this course uses features available in the FULL commercial Adobe Acrobat product not the free reader application.

Suitable for both Apple Macintosh Apple and Microsoft Windows Windows

Course Content
  • Overview of Acrobat
  • Converting documents to PDFs
  • Postscript file format
  • Fonts
  • Designing for on-line viewing
  • Editing and navigating PDF files
  • Acrobat palettes and tools
  • Encoding colour information
  • Methods for creating PDFs
  • Distiller and Reader
  • Inserting and removing pages
  • Page actions
  • Creating links
  • Annotating a PDF
  • PDF Forms
  • Articles
  • Bookmarks and play actions
  • On-line forms
  • Capturing pages
  • Controlling output quality
  • Using movie and sound files
  • Adding Acrobat reader installers
  • Acrobat Views
  • Overview of some useful Acrobat addins
Course Objectives
To work with Acrobat exchange to annotate, clip, amend and create bookmarks and hyperlinks within a document. To be able to create on-line forms in acrobat. To build acrobat files from paper and the web. To create a searchable index of files using catalog. To be able to use and configure distiller and understand its print, resolution and font embedding options. To understand Postscript and its relationship to PDF files.

To be able to produce .PDFs from within an application and from a PS file. Work with multimedia video and sound files.

See Also
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
QuarkXpress
iDTP Master Course
FrameMaker
Adobe InDesign
Course Delivery Options
Classroom Option    Classroom Option