Introducing Adobe Acrobat XI
o About Adobe Acrobat
o About Adobe Reader
o Using PDF on the web
o Adding Adobe Reader installers
o Opening a PDF file
o Working with the toolbars
o Working with task panes
o Same tools, different locations
o Panels in the Tools pane
o Using keyboard shortcuts to select tools
o Navigating PDF documents
o Viewing PDF presentations in Full Screen mode
o Designing documents for online viewing
o Setting Acrobat preferences for web browsing
o Customizing the Quick Tools toolbar
o Creating a custom tool set
o Getting help
o Review questions and answers
Creating Adobe PDF Files
o Using the Create command
o Dragging and dropping files
o Creating Adobe PDFs from
o Microsoft Office files (Mac OS)
o Converting different types of files
o Inserting a blank page
o Using PDFMaker
o PDFMaker options
o Using the Print command to create Adobe PDF files
o Adobe PDF presets
o Reducing file size
o Optimizing PDF files (Acrobat Pro only)
o Creating files from the clipboard
o Scanning a paper document
o Making scanned text editable and searchable
o Converting email messages to PDF (Windows)
o Converting web pages to Adobe PDF
o Review questions and answers
Reading and Working with PDF Files
o Changing the opening view
o About the onscreen display
o Reading PDF documents
o Searching PDF documents
o Printing PDF documents
o Printing booklets
o Filling out PDF forms
o About flexibility, accessibility, and structure
o Working with accessible documents
o Making files flexible and accessible (Acrobat Pro only)
o About tags
o Using Acrobat accessibility features (Standard and Pro)
o Sharing PDF files
o Review questions and answers
Enhancing PDF Documents
o Examining the work file
o Moving pages with page thumbnails
o Manipulating pages
o Renumbering pages
o Managing links
o Applying Bates numbering
o Working with bookmarks
o Naming bookmarks automatically
o Adding multimedia files
o Setting document properties and metadata
o Setting up presentations
o Review questions and answers
Editing Content in PDF Files
o Editing text
o Redacting text (Acrobat Pro only)
o Working with images in a PDF file
o Copying text and images from a PDF file
o Exporting PDF content to a PowerPoint presentation
o Saving PDF files as Word documents
o Extracting PDF tables as Excel spreadsheets
Review questions and answers Using Acrobat with Microsoft Office Files (Windows)
o About Acrobat PDFM
o Converting Microsoft Word files to Adobe PDF
o Creating Adobe PDF files from Word mail-merge templates
o Converting Excel documents and starting a review
o Converting PowerPoint presentations
o Converting web pages from Internet Explorer
o Review questions and answers
Combining Files
o Selecting files to combine
o Arranging pages
o Merging the files
o Creating a PDF Portfolio (Acrobat Pro)
o Review questions and answers
o Viewing documents in Protected Mode (Windows only)
o About security
o Viewing security settings
o Adding security to PDF files
o About digital signatures
o Creating digital signatures
o Signing in Preview mode
o Sharing certificates with others
o Signing a document digitally
o Modifying signed documents
o Using Adobe EchoSign
o Certifying PDF files
o Signing certified documents
o Securing PDFs in FIPS mode (Windows)
o Exploring on your own: Using security envelopes
o Review questions and answers
Using Ac robat in a Review Cycle
o About the review process
o Getting started
o Adding comments to a PDF document
o Commenting in Adobe Reader
o Working with comments
o Summarizing comments
o Initiating a shared review
o About Acrobat.com
o Starting an email-based review
o Review questions and answers
Working with Forms in Ac robat
o Converting PDF files to interactive PDF forms
o Adding form fields
o Specifying an answer format
o Types of form fields
o Distributing forms
o Tracking forms
o Options for distributing forms
o Collecting form data
o Working with form data
o Exploring on your own: Calculating and validating numeric fields
o Review questions and answers
Using FormsCentral (ACROBAT PRO)
o About FormsCentral
o Getting started
o Creating a form from a template
o Distributing a form
o Tracking a form
o Sharing form responses
o Creating a form from scratch
o Review questions and answers
Using Actions (ACROBAT PRO)
o About actions
o Using predefined actions
o Creating an action
o Avoiding the Full Screen mode warning
o Sharing actions
o Review questions and answers
Using Acrobat in Professional Printing
o Creating PDF files for print and prepress
o Guidelines for creating print-ready PDF files
o Preflighting files (Acrobat Pro)
o Custom preflight profiles
o Working with transparency (Acrobat Pro)
o PDF standards
o What is rasterization?
o About flattening options in the Flattener Preview dialog box
o Setting up color management
o Previewing your print job (Acrobat Pro)
o Advanced printing controls
o Review questions and answers
