Acrobat components

• What is Adobe Acrobat
• Overview of Reader
• Overview of Distiller
• Overview of Catalog
• Overview of Acrobat 5
• What can Acrobat produce

Creating a PDF file

• Creating a PDF in MS Word
• Acrobat Distiller vs. PDFWriter
• Distiller's preset job options
• Creating a PDF in PowerPoint
• Using Open as PDF
• Acrobat basics

The Acrobat work area

• Moving through documents
• Zooming in and out
• Changing screen modes
• Searching a PDF document
• Setting Acrobat preferences

Navigation controls

• Using thumbnails
• Using bookmarks
• Using articles for navigation
• Page actions
• Using links and buttons

Editing PDF files

• Selecting and modifying text
• Selecting and moving graphics
• Moving pages around
• Deleting and inserting pages
• Cropping pages

Comments

• Adding text comments
• Adding graphical comments
• Highlighting and marking
• Exporting and importing comments
• Reviewing comments

Distributing PDFs

• Emailing from Acrobat
• Optimising files
• Specifying how documents open
• Using full-screen mode
• Adding password
  protection
• Embedding searchable information
• Checking spelling

Acrobat Distiller

• Different ways of using Distiller
• Setting Distiller job options
• Resolution and compression options
• Choosing settings for fonts
• Security and encryption
• Creating postscript files
• Setting up watched folders

Acrobat Tools and security

• Using PDF consultant
• Acrobat digital signatures
• Acrobat Self-Sign
• Comparing documents
• Capturing web pages
• Batch processing PDF files

Multimedia

• Acrobat and multimedia
• Inserting a movie
• Inserting sound
• Playback options

Forms

• Creating and formatting fields
• Using the grid
• Using the Info palette
• Formatting text fields
• Defining calculation fields
• Drop-down lists
• Radio buttons
• Adding submit and reset buttons
• Creating rollover effects
• Replicating a button on all pages

Indexes

• Benefits of indexes
• Using acrobat Catalog
• Defining and building an index
• Automatically updating indexes
• Searching in Acrobat 9
• Selecting indexes
• Browsing search results

Basics

• The potential of Acrobat forms
• Benefits of using Acrobat forms
• Benefits offered by Javascript

Designing forms

• Adding form controls
• Using calculated fields
• Using hidden fields
• Form validation
• Form submission
• FDF data

Acrobat JavaScript essentials

• Uses of Javascript
• Acrobat's implementation of Javascript
• Acrobat objects
• Using the script editor
• Using a separate editor
• JavaScript language syntax
• Using comments
• Using variables
• Using code blocks

Defining functions

• Calling functions
• Passing parameters
• Looping structures
• Conditional statements
• Writing scripts

Using Javascript for navigation

• Obtaining field values
• Setting field values
• Showing and hiding fields
• Calculating field values
• Making field values conditional
• Making fields dynamic

Providing help via scripts

• Changing field in response to user actions
• Creating form fields via scripts
• Creating text fields
• Creating check boxes
• Creating combo boxes
• Setting field attributes

Windows and dialogues

• Display alert boxes
• Requesting information
• Server interaction
• Submitting a form to a cgi script
• using the ubiquitous formmail script
• using an ASP script
• Database interaction

The ADBC object

• The connection object
• The statement object
• writing to a database
• reading from a dataabase
• Using Dreamweaver with Acrobat
• merging a form with a data source