Acrobat 9 Pro:
Basic, ACE Edition

Topic-Level Outline

Days: 1

Prerequisites: Windows XP: Basic or equivalent experience

Unit 1 : Getting started

Topic A: 0 The Acrobat environment

A-1: Identifying the benefits of PDF documents

A-2: Exploring the Acrobat environment

A-3: Viewing and navigating a PDF document

Topic B: 0 Advanced navigation

B-1: Navigating with bookmarks

B-2: Navigating with links

B-3: Using split view

Topic C: 0 Finding text

C-1: Finding text by using the Find toolbar

C-2: Finding text by using the Search PDF window

C-3: Finding text by using OCR

Topic D: 0 Organizing PDF documents

D-1: Browsing recent PDF documents

D-2: Organizing PDF files as a collection

Topic E: 0 Getting help

E-1: Finding information

Topic F: 0 Setting preferences

F-1: Setting Acrobat application preferences

Unit 2 : Creating PDF documents

Topic A: 0 Printing to PDF from any application

A-1: Creating a PDF file by using the Print command

Topic B: 0 Acrobat PDFMaker

B-1: Using PDFMaker within Word

Topic C: 0 The Create PDF commands

C-1: Combining multiple documents in a PDF Portfolio

C-2: Managing PDF Portfolios

C-3: Creating a PDF document from a Web page

C-4: Discussing other Creative Suite applications

Unit 3 : Modifying PDF documents

Topic A: 0 Moving document pages

A-1: Moving pages within a PDF document

A-2: Moving pages between PDF documents

Topic B: 0 Modifying content

B-1: Editing PDF document text

B-2: Formatting PDF document text

B-3: Inserting headers and footers

B-4: Inserting a watermark and background

B-5: Synchronizing page numbering

Topic C: 0 Moving PDF content to other programs

C-1: Copying a graphic to another program

Topic D: 0 Adding multimedia

D-1: Adding a video file

Topic E: 0 Optimizing PDF file size

E-1: Optimizing a PDF file

E-2: Reducing file size

Unit 4 : Document navigation tools

Topic A: 0 Working with bookmarks

A-1: Testing automatically generated bookmarks

A-2: Adding a bookmark

A-3: Adding bookmarks from selected text

A-4: Modifying bookmark destinations

A-5: Arranging bookmarks

A-6: Formatting bookmarks

Topic B: 0 Working with links

B-1: Creating a link

B-2: Resizing and aligning links

B-3: Formatting text to look like a link

B-4: Creating links from selected text

Unit 5 : PDF accessibility

Topic A: 0 Accessible documents

A-1: Adding tags to a PDF document

A-2: Checking the accessibility of a PDF document

A-3: Fixing accessibility problems

A-4: Modifying a tagged document’s reading order

A-5: Creating a new tagging structure

Topic B: 0 Accessibility in the Acrobat environment

B-1: Using the Accessibility Setup Assistant

B-2: Setting reading preferences

Unit 6 : Document security

Topic A: 0 Password protection

A-1: Setting a Document Open password

A-2: Setting a Permissions password

A-3: Changing settings in a permissions-protected file

Topic B: 0 Digital signatures

B-1: Creating a digital ID

B-2: Exporting a digital ID certificate file

B-3: Digitally signing a PDF document

B-4: Validating a signed document

B-5: Creating a blank digital signature field

B-6: Certifying a PDF document

Topic C: 0 Encryption certification and security envelopes

C-1: Encrypting a PDF file by using a certificate

C-2: Creating a security envelope

Topic D: 0 Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management ES encryption

D-1: Discussing Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management ES encryption

Topic E: 0 Password and certificate security policies

E-1: Creating a password security policy

E-2: Applying a security policy

Unit 7 : Document review techniques

Topic A: 0 Document reviews

A-1: Discussing automated reviews

Topic B: 0 Reviewer tools

B-1: Adding notes

B-2: Specifying the reviewer’s author name

B-3: Adding drawing markups

B-4: Adding text markups

B-5: Adding a stamp

Topic C: 0 Managing comments and markups

C-1: Exporting comments and markups

C-2: Importing comments from multiple reviewers

C-3: Navigating comments from multiple reviewers

C-4: Creating a comment summary PDF file

Appendix A : ACE exam objectives map

Topic A: 0 ACE exam objectives