Adobe Acrobat - Creating PDF Documents (PDF1)

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This course covers essential theory and practical basics for reliably creating PDF documents. Participants master various conversion methods — from MS Office, images and text files to web pages — and learn efficient scanning workflows and quality checks for consistent output.

You will learn to edit and annotate PDFs, manage pages, images and text, and prepare files for distribution. The course also covers preparation for publishing, methods to optimize file size and options to export PDFs to Word, Excel or PowerPoint.

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The course:

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• PDF
1. What PDF is
2. Purpose and common uses

• Introduction to the application
1. Adobe Acrobat interface
2. Viewing options
3. Initial view settings
4. Navigation pane
5. Toolbars
6. Preferences / program settings

• Creating PDFs
1. Adobe PDF printer
2. Alternative programs (e.g., Save to PDF tools)
3. Creating PDFs from MS Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
4. PDF from an existing file
5. PDF from a scanner
6. PDF from the web
7. PDF creation by merging files

• Working with a PDF file
1. Find and replace text
2. Page background color
3. Pages (insert, delete, reorder, rotate)
4. Text (add and edit)
5. Images (add and edit)

• File size
1. File properties (Description tab)
2. Reducing size (Reduced Size PDF, Optimized PDF)

• Exporting PDF
1. To Microsoft Word
2. To RTF
3. To Microsoft Excel
4. To XML Spreadsheet
5. To Microsoft PowerPoint

• Printing PDFs
1. Pre-print settings
2. Custom printing

• Information
1. Sources (books, magazines, websites)
2. Development and future trends

Assumed knowledge:

Basic knowledge of MS Windows and Microsoft Word.

Recommended subsequent course:

Adobe Acrobat – Advanced PDF Creation Features (PDF2)

Schedule:

1 day (9:00 AM - 5:00 PM )

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