Forms 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 Acrobat's 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.

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
1.5

Lesson Objectives

Forms and Document Security in Adobe Acrobat 8

create a form and set form preferences using Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional

create a form using a template and fill the form in

create a form

fill in and submit a form

recognize the features of a security policy and secure a PDF document

identify the features of Digital IDs and create a self-signed Digital ID

secure a PDF document with a password

add a digital signature to a PDF document