Adobe Acrobat 8 Curriculum Outline
Creating and Working with PDFs in Adobe Acrobat 8
Overview/Description 
Adobe Acrobat 8 enables you to create Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files files that retain a standard appearance across various operating system platforms and browsers. This course explores the creation of PDFs, including creating them from multiple files and web pages. In addition, the course discusses methods of saving, printing, formatting, and organizing PDFs. Accessibility and help features of Adobe Acrobat 8 are also covered. 
Target Audience 
The audience will comprise primarily business users within the corporate client base, including a wide range of office productivity users, web authors, and anybody tasked with creating or preparing documents for web publication.
Expected Duration 
2.5 hours
Objectives :
Introduction to Adobe Acrobat 8 
Identify the features of Adobe Acrobat 8 
Create a PDF from a File using Adobe Acrobat 8 
- Create a PDF document 
Use Acrobat 8 to Create a PDF from Multiple Files  
- Create a PDF from multiple source files 
Use Acrobat 8 to Create a PDF from a Web Page  
- Create a PDF from a web page 
Use Distiller in Adobe Acrobat 8  
- Create a PDF using Distiller 
Save and Print PDFs in Adobe Acrobat 8  
- Save a PDF document in a given format 
- Print a PDF document 
Format a PDF in Adobe Acrobat 8  
- Format a PDF 
Use the Organizer in Adobe Acrobat 8  
- Use the Organizer 
The Help System in Adobe Acrobat 8  
- Use Adobe Acrobat 8 Help 
Accessibility Features in Adobe Acrobat 8  
- Create an accessible PDF 
Back to ListEditing and Reviewing in Adobe Acrobat 8
Overview/Description 
Using Adobe Acrobat 8, you can perform comprehensive reviews of PDF documents. This application allows you to review and add your comments to a document using a wide variety of commenting and markup features, including notes, stamps, and text insertion tools. This course highlights the main concepts of participating in a review using Adobe Acrobat 8. 
Target Audience 
The audience will comprise primarily business users within the corporate client base, including a wide range of office productivity users, web authors, and anybody tasked with creating or preparing documents for web publication.
Expected Duration 
1.1 hours
Objectives :Edit a PDF in Adobe Acrobat 8 
Add a comment in Acrobat 8 Mark up a PDF document Adobe Acrobat 8 Reviews 
Back to ListForms and Document Security in Adobe Acrobat 8
Overview/Description 
You can create and review many types of PDFs using Adobe Acrobat 8, but this application also enables you to safeguard your documents using any number of Acrobats security features. This course explores the advantages of PDF security, and highlights several security measures you can employ, such as using digital IDs, security policies, password and encryption protection, and security envelopes. The course also introduces PDF forms, and sending form data. 
Target Audience 
The audience will comprise primarily business users within the corporate client base, including a wide range of office productivity users, web authors, and anybody tasked with creating or preparing documents for web publication.
Expected Duration 
1.4 hours
Objectives :Create a Form in Adobe Acrobat 8 
Create a form using Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional Create a form using a template Acrobat 8 Security 
- Secure a PDF document Acrobat 8 Digital IDs  
- Create a self-signed Digital ID 
Back to ListAdvanced Features of Adobe Acrobat 8
Overview/Description 
You can use the professional features of Adobe Acrobat 8 to perform such tasks as batch processing, and indexing. Adobe Acrobat 8 also allows you to prepare a PDF for commercial printing using its Preflight feature and this course explores the advanced features of Adobe Acrobat 8, including working with multimedia, creating batch sequences, and preparing PDFs for indexing. 
Target Audience 
The audience will comprise primarily business users within the corporate client base, including a wide range of office productivity users, web authors, and anybody tasked with creating or preparing documents for web publication.
Expected Duration 
1.9 hours
Objectives :Adobe Acrobat 8 and Multimedia 
Create a multimedia presentation in Adobe Acrobat 8 Automate Tasks in Adobe Acrobat 8 
- Use batch processing 
- Automate the distilling process Indexing PDFs in Adobe Acrobat 8  
- Create an index for a collection Use Preflight to Validate a PDF in Acrobat 8  
- Use the Preflight tool Prepare an Acrobat 8 PDF for Commercial Printing  
- Use advanced printing controls Edit Images in Adobe Acrobat 8  
- Edit images in Acrobat 8
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Adobe Acrobat 8
 Adobe Acrobat 8 was released on November 12, 2006 as part of a continuing family of applications designed to create, manipulate 
and manage a proprietary document file type known as PDF files, the PDF standing for Portable Document Format. These files are 
utilized in varying degrees by the corporate world, due largely to the fact that the document will appear in a standardized 
appearance regardless of the operating system platform or web browser. The PDF files can be secured for distribution by used 
of passwords, permissions and digital signatures, as well as removing any metadata, hidden layers or concealed information that 
can be found in the files of other document programs. These features have lead to Adobe Acrobat being the premier document creation 
tool for today’s corporate world.
Adobe Acrobat 8 was released on November 12, 2006 as part of a continuing family of applications designed to create, manipulate 
and manage a proprietary document file type known as PDF files, the PDF standing for Portable Document Format. These files are 
utilized in varying degrees by the corporate world, due largely to the fact that the document will appear in a standardized 
appearance regardless of the operating system platform or web browser. The PDF files can be secured for distribution by used 
of passwords, permissions and digital signatures, as well as removing any metadata, hidden layers or concealed information that 
can be found in the files of other document programs. These features have lead to Adobe Acrobat being the premier document creation 
tool for today’s corporate world. 
Whether you are a business manager seeking a way to insure coherence of a distribute document across a multitude of corporate 
networks, a web designer looking for a method of publishing forms across the internet or a technical writer in search of a way to 
send secure technical documentation via a paperless route, there is always an advantage to utilizing Adobe Acrobat.
	
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Business users within corporate client support, including anybody utilizing Adobe Acrobat to create PDFs or 
arrange PDF files for web publication.
What Professionals Will Learn from CBT Direct’s Adobe Acrobat Training
With CBT Direct’s Online training, users will be given an introduction to the system to help identify the features of Adobe 
Acrobat 8, identifying options for PDF files. Students will learn to use Adobe Acrobat 8 to create PDFs from singular and multiple 
source files, learning how to format, print, export and save a PDF document in a given format. Click here to see a detailed curriculum outline.
Individuals will come to understand how to work with PDF files in Adobe Acrobat 8, utilizing the help and accessibility features 
in addition to editing a PDF, adding comments or marking up the document. The training will also review use of the Organizer to 
access PDF documents in a logical fashion. 
User will come to utilize Adobe Acrobat 8 Reviews for PDF files, understanding the concepts of the review process, as well 
participate in an Adobe Acrobat 8 email review. Learners will be shown how to initialize an email review as well use the review 
tracker to follow the progression of a review session. 
Professionals will be taught to utilize the various security features of Adobe Acrobat 8 by identifying the features of 
secure PDF files as well as the features of digital IDs, self-signed or otherwise. Users will also be shown how to create multimedia 
presentations in Adobe Acrobat in addition to using automated tasks such as batch processing and automated distilling. 
In closing, the course will delve into the advanced features of Adobe Acrobat 8, showing the various features of the Preflight 
tool and advising on how to utilize it to check a document. Furthermore students will be shown how to prepare PDF files for 
commercial printing by editing images and using advanced printing controls. 
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