No Acrobat user can afford to miss a beat in his or her production and business task workflow--which makes mastering new versions of key tools like Acrobat a problem. Realizing that the users Acrobat 9 is designed for--creative professionals, business users, and technical professionals -- aren't going to interrupt their work schedules to take a class in the software, Adobe has brought the classroom to them in this handy, comprehensive book. Through a series of self-paced lessons (each of which builds on the last and includes hands-on projects that the reader can create using the files on the CD-ROM), this guide acquaints users with all of Acrobat's regular and industrial-strength features for creating, reviewing, editing, commenting on, modifying, and preflighting PDF files. Readers who are already familiar with the basics of using Acrobat will get up to speed on significantly overhauled new features available in Acrobat 9. Acrobat 9 Pro offers a new PDF Portfolio feature that lets users bring multiple files together in a single interactive PDF portfolio. Acrobat 9 Pro also offers users a dramatically overhauled form creation tool; a streamlined, interactive document review process; synchronized document views; powerful redaction tools, and more.Acrobat Pro Extended (formerly Adobe Acrobat 3D Version 8) offers Windows users added functionality, such as new 3D capabilities, PDF mapping features, video conversion tools, native support for Flash technology (so users can include video, animations, and applications in Acrobat and Acrobat Reader PDF files), and Adobe Presenter, which lets users create interactive presentations with PowerPoint and then publish them to PDF.
Author(s): Adobe Creative Team
Edition: 1 Pap/Cdr
Publisher: Adobe Press
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 370
Cover......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 5
About Classroom in a Book......Page 12
Acrobat Pro, Acrobat Pro Extended, and Acrobat Standard......Page 13
Copying the Classroom in a Book files......Page 14
Adobe certification......Page 15
Lesson Overview......Page 17
About Adobe Acrobat......Page 19
Adobe PDF on the web......Page 22
A first look at the work area......Page 23
Viewing PDF presentations in Full Screen mode......Page 27
Designing documents for online viewing......Page 28
Getting help......Page 31
Review questions and answers......Page 34
Lesson Overview......Page 35
Working with Acrobat tools and toolbars......Page 37
Working with Acrobat task buttons......Page 46
Working with the navigation pane......Page 47
Using Organizer......Page 50
Review questions and answers......Page 55
Lesson Overview......Page 57
Using the Create PDF command......Page 59
Converting and combining different types of files......Page 62
Using the Print command to create Adobe PDF files......Page 66
About the Adobe PDF Settings (presets)......Page 68
Reducing file size......Page 69
About compression and resampling......Page 70
Inserting multimedia files......Page 71
Scanning a paper document......Page 73
Converting emails to PDF (Windows)......Page 74
Converting web pages to Adobe PDF......Page 77
Exploring on your own: Creating Adobe PDF from the context menu (Windows)......Page 83
Review questions and answers......Page 84
Lesson Overview......Page 85
About PDFMaker......Page 87
Converting Microsoft Word files to Adobe PDF......Page 88
Inserting 3D content into PowerPoint presentations (Acrobat Pro Extended)......Page 94
Converting Excel documents and starting a review......Page 99
Exploring on your own: Exporting tables from PDF files......Page 104
Exploring on your own: Converting and combining multiple Office files......Page 105
Review questions and answers......Page 106
Lesson Overview......Page 107
Getting started......Page 109
Creating a PDF Portfolio......Page 110
Customizing your PDF Portfolio......Page 113
Securing a PDF Portfolio......Page 119
Searching a PDF Portfolio......Page 121
Review questions and answers......Page 123
Lesson Overview......Page 125
Changing the opening view......Page 127
Reading PDF documents......Page 129
Searching PDF documents......Page 137
Printing PDF documents......Page 139
Filling out PDF forms......Page 140
About flexibility, accessibility, and structure......Page 141
Looking at accessible documents......Page 143
Making files flexible and accessible......Page 145
Adding Alt Text (alternate text)......Page 148
Using the Acrobat accessibility features......Page 149
Review questions and answers......Page 154
Lesson Overview......Page 155
Looking at the work file......Page 157
Moving pages with page thumbnails......Page 159
Editing Adobe PDF pages......Page 161
Editing links......Page 164
Inserting one PDF file into another PDF file......Page 166
Working with bookmarks......Page 168
Deleting a page......Page 171
Renumbering pages......Page 172
Editing and extracting text and images......Page 174
Editing images using the TouchUp Object tool......Page 180
Converting PDF pages to image format files......Page 181
Review questions and answers......Page 182
Lesson Overview......Page 183
Creating digital signatures......Page 185
About security......Page 197
Looking at security settings......Page 198
Adding security to PDF files......Page 199
Adding passwords......Page 200
Certifying PDF files......Page 202
Signing certified documents......Page 204
Exploring on your own: Using security envelopes......Page 205
Review questions and answers......Page 207
Lesson Overview......Page 209
About the review process......Page 211
About the commenting tools......Page 212
Working with comments......Page 217
Initiating a shared review......Page 222
Exploring on your own: Initiating live collaboration......Page 227
Review questions and answers......Page 229
Lesson Overview......Page 231
Converting PDF files to interactive PDF forms......Page 233
Adding form fields......Page 235
Distributing forms......Page 240
Collecting form data......Page 244
Working with form data......Page 246
Exploring on your own: Calculating and validating numeric fields......Page 247
Review questions and answers......Page 249
Lesson Overview......Page 251
Adding a video file to a PDF file (Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended)......Page 253
Adding a Flash animation (Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended)......Page 256
Assigning a poster file for a video or animation (Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended)......Page 258
Creating a presentation......Page 260
Review questions and answers......Page 264
Lesson Overview......Page 265
About Bates numbering and redaction......Page 267
Applying Bates numbering......Page 268
Defining Bates numbering......Page 270
Applying redaction......Page 273
Changing the Documents preferences......Page 274
Setting the Redaction tool properties......Page 275
Searching text for redaction......Page 276
Creating PDF Portfolios......Page 278
Review questions and answers......Page 279
Lesson Overview......Page 281
Working with layers......Page 283
Using the Pan & Zoom tool......Page 287
Using the 2D measuring tools......Page 289
Using the Loupe tool......Page 291
Converting a drawing file to PDF (Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended)......Page 292
Using the PDF Maps feature......Page 295
Geospatial registration (Acrobat Pro Extended)......Page 297
Review questions and answers......Page 300
Lesson Overview......Page 301
Getting started......Page 303
Creating PDF files for print and prepress......Page 304
Preflighting files (Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended)......Page 307
Working with transparency (Acrobat Pro and Pro Extended)......Page 311
Setting up color management......Page 315
Previewing your print job......Page 316
Advanced printing controls......Page 318
Review questions and answers......Page 321
Lesson Overview......Page 323
About Acrobat Pro Extended and Adobe 3D Reviewer (Windows)......Page 325
Working with 3D content in PDF files......Page 326
Reviewing and commenting on 3D models......Page 340
Converting 3D design files to PDF (Acrobat Pro Extended)......Page 342
Using 3D PDF files in your manufacturing workflow (Acrobat Pro Extended)......Page 346
Using 3D models in technical publishing (Acrobat Pro Extended)......Page 349
Review questions and answers......Page 352
A......Page 354
C......Page 355
E......Page 357
F......Page 358
L......Page 359
O......Page 360
P......Page 361
R......Page 362
S......Page 363
T......Page 364
Z......Page 365
Media......Page 370
