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 (hours)
2.5

Lesson Objectives

Creating and Working with PDFs in Adobe Acrobat 8

identify the features of Adobe Acrobat 8

identify the options for creating a PDF and create a PDF document

create a PDF from multiple source files

create a PDF from a web page

create a PDF using Distiller

create PDFs using multiple methods

recognize the options to export a PDF and save a PDF document in a given format

print a PDF document

format a PDF

use the Organizer

format and print a PDF document

use Adobe Acrobat 8 Help

create an accessible PDF

use Acrobat 8's Help system in a given scenario