Adobe® Acrobat® 9.0 Pro: Level 2
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®