STANDARD COMPETENCIES:

 

 I.      Examine the Adobe Acrobat Professional application and determine the relationship with other print, web, presentation, commenting, and multimedia applications.

 II.     Examine the differences between Adobe Reader, Adobe Acrobat Elements, Adobe Acrobat Standard, Adobe Acrobat Professional, and Adobe Acrobat 3D.

 III.    Use Adobe Acrobat Professional to convert documents from the web or native application format to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files.

 IV.     Create interactive documents and presentations combining simple animation, graphics, text and sound in Acrobat Professional and in combination with Adobe InDesign.

 V.      Create fillable forms Using Acrobat LiveCycle Forms for e-mail delivery and to add returned form data to an external spreadsheet for analysis. (Windows only).

 VI.     Use of commenting, markup and tracking tools in PDF document reviews.

 VII.    Use of print production tools for accurate press proofing, print production and creation of press ready PDFs.

 VIII.   Using Adobe Acrobat Professional to extend program functionality to users of Adobe Reader.

 IX.     Use Adobe Acrobat Professional to generate computer based, digitally secure documents.

 X       Use Adobe Acrobat Professional to organize, search, index, paginate, bookmark, and allow the use of assistive technology in PDF documents.

 TOPICAL OUTLINE:

 

 I.      Use of Adobe Acrobat in creating PDFs from industry standard applications

         A.      Creative Suite Products

         B.      Microsoft Office Products

         C.      Digital Imaging Software

         D.      Page Layout Software

         E.      Illustration Software

         F.      3D Software

         G.      Spreadsheet Software

         H.      CAD software

 II.     Differences between Adobe Reader, Acrobat Standard, Acrobat Professional and Acrobat 3D

         A.      Adobe Reader: Allows anyone to open and read PDF documents

         B.      Adobe Standard: Allows for creation, conversion and production of PDF documents from any application that prints

         C.      Adobe Acrobat Professional: Allows for the creation, conversion, form generation, commenting, multimedia and presentation documents in PFD format

         D.      Acrobat 3D: Allows for creation of PDF documents from major CAD programs, and allows the insertion of 3D CAD designs into Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint

 III.    Document Conversion

         A.      Web Site Capture

         B.      Microsoft Office

         C.      Print Production Software

         D.      AutoCAD

         E.      Presentation Software

         F.      OCR Capture

         G.      Print to PDF

         H.      Acrobat Distiller

         I.      Combining multiple PDFs

 IV.     Interactive Documents and Presentations

         A.      Movie tool

         B.      Sound Tool

         C.      Document Properties

         D.      Page Transitions

         E.      Using Adobe InDesign to place .swf content, sound and video content combined with text into Adobe Acrobat Professional

 V.      Forms

         A.      Advanced Editing Toolbar

         B.      Button Tool

         C.      Checkbox Tool

         D.      Combo Box Tool

         E.      List Box Tool

         F.      Radio Button Tool

         G.      Text Field Tool

         H.      Digital Signature Tool

         I.      Data File Collection Workflow

         J.      Create Spread Sheet from Data

         K.      Importing Data to Form

         L.      Exporting Data from Form

         M.      Typewriter Tool

 VI.     Commenting Markup and Tracking

         A.      Adding Notes

         B.      Highlighter, Underliner, and Cross-Out Text Tools

         C.      Text Edits Tool

         D.      Stamp Tool

         E.      Attaching File as Comment

         F.      Audio Commenting

         G.      Show and Hide Comments

         H.      Print Comments

         I.      Migrate Comments

         J.      Drawing Markup Tools

         K.      Tracker

 VII.    Print Production Tools

         A.      Output Preview

         B.      Preflight

         C.      Convert Colors

         D.      Ink Manager

         E.      Add Printer Marks

         F.      Crop Pages

         G.      Fix Hairlines

         H.      Transparency Flattening

         I.      PDF Optimizer

         J.      JDF Job Definitions

         K.      PDF/x Specifications

 VIII.   Extended Functionality to Adobe Reader Users

         A.      Enable for Commenting in Adobe Reader

         B.      Enable Typewriter Tool in Adobe Reader

 IX.     Digitally Secure Documents

         A.      Setting up Digital IDs and Signatures

         B.      Setting up Digital ID Certificates

         C.      Setting up Certified Documents

         D.      Encrypting Digital IDs and Certificates

         E.      Creating Secure eEnvelopes

         F.      Restricting Print, Save, Changes, Copying, Extraction, Commenting, or Creation of Templates

         G.      Additional Acrobat Tools

         H.      Organizer

         I.      Search

         J.      Catalog

         K.      Search

         L.      Bookmarks

         M.      Article Tool

         N.      Touch Up Text Tool

         O.      Touch Up Reading Order Tool

         P.      Touch Up Objects Tool

         Q.      Accessibility Setup Assistant

         R.      Acrobat Connect