Course Specifications
Course number: 084022
Software: Adobe® Acrobat® 9.0 Pro
Course length: 1.0 day(s)
Certification: Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) Program®
Course Description
As a business professional, you have some experience in using Adobe® Acrobat®. Now, you are ready to further develop your
PDF documents. In this course, you will use Adobe® Acrobat® 9.0 Pro to convert technical documents to PDF files, enhance and control PDF content accessibility, customize PDF documents for
interactive use online, and prepare PDFs for commercial printing.
Course Objective: You will use Adobe® Acrobat® 9.0 Pro to convert documents to PDF files, enhance and customize PDF documents for interactive use online,
and prepare them for printing.
Target Student: The target student for this course are office professionals who want to employ the advanced productivity and creative features
of Acrobat 9.0 Pro
Prerequisites: : Adobe® Acrobat® 9.0 Pro: Level 1
Delivery Method: Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.
Hardware Requirements
- Intel® Pentium IV processor or equivalent
- 256 MB of RAM (512 MB or greater is recommended)
- Minimum of 860 MB of available hard-disk space; cache for optional installation files (recommended) requires an additional
460 MB of available hard-disk space, and an additional 30 MB for the course data files
- CD-ROM drive
- Mouse or another pointing device
- 1024 x 768 resolution monitor
- Installed printer drivers
- AGFA AccuSet 1500 and Tektronix Phaser 480X printers
- Projection system to display the instructor's computer screen
- Intel® Xenon processor at 3 Ghz or an AMD 64-bit processor that supports the AMD64 platform
- 2 GB of RAM is recommended
Platform Requirements
- Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003, Standard or Enterprise Edition with SP2
Software Requirements
- Adobe® Acrobat® 9.0 Pro for Windows
- Microsoft® Internet Explorer® 6.0 or later
- Windows® 2003 Exchange server with IIS and SMTP
- Microsoft® Office Professional Edition 2007
- Adobe® Photoshop® CS3
- Windows® Media Player
- QuickTime Player 7.4.1 or above
- Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 SP1, Standard x64 Edition
- Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003
- Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 or later, or Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4 or later
Performance-Based Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- create PDF files from technical documents.
- enhance the utility and accessibility of PDF documents.
- create interactive PDF forms using Adobe LiveCycle Designer.
- make a PDF document ready for commercial printing.
- finalize PDF files for commercial printing.
Course Content
- Lesson 1: Creating PDFs from Technical Documents
- Topic 1A: Create PDF Documents Using Autodesk AutoCAD
- Topic 1B: Measure Technical Drawings
- Lesson 2: Enhancing PDF Documents
- Topic 2A: Embed Multimedia
- Topic 2B: Optimize PDF Files
- Topic 2C: Enhance PDF Document Accessibility
- Lesson 3: Creating Interactive PDF Forms in Adobe LiveCycle Designer
- Topic 3A: Create a PDF Form
- Topic 3B: Add Form Fields
- Topic 3C: Create Calculations
- Topic 3D: Create Buttons
- Topic 3E: Track Forms
- Topic 3F: Compile Returned Forms
- Topic 3G: Organize Compiled Data
- Lesson 4: Preparing PDF Files for Commercial Printing
- Topic 4A: Examine the Commercial Printing Process
- Topic 4B: Create PDF Files for Prepress
- Topic 4C: Apply Color Management Settings
- Topic 4D: Modify Adobe PDF Settings for Prepress
- Topic 4E: Preview Printed Effects
- Lesson 5: Finalizing PDF Files for Commercial Printing
- Topic 5A: Preflight Documents
- Topic 5B: Create PDF/X, PDF/A, and PDF/E Compliant Files
- Topic 5C: Create a Composite
- Topic 5D: Create Color Separations
- Appendix A: Miscellaneous Features
- Supplemental Lesson Adding Enhancements
- Topic 1A: Index Documents
- Topic 1B: Batch Process PDF Documents
- Topic 1C: Repurpose PDF Document Content
- Appendix B: Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) Program®