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New !! Acrobat Family of Courses
AC10 Acrobat 6.0 (Professional and Standard)
Please note we will offer training on Acrobat 5.0
if sufficient numbers warrant holding a public class. Please contact us
to discuss your training needs
Adobe Acrobat is the fastest way to publish any document online. In this
course you will learn how to take digital files in any format, paper documents
and Web pages and create Portable Document Format files (PDF). Adobe Acrobat
is also the perfect Business Solution for securing and distributing online
documents for commenting and review. These docuements can be viewed and
printed using the free Adobe Reader or presented as full screen multimedia
presentations. You can distribute documents on the Web, intranets and
CD-ROMs. Adobe Acrobat 6.0 allows you to do so much more with your PDF
files. .
Course topics include:
PDF File Creation
- Acrobat 6.0 and the Acrobat product family, Acrobat 6.0 Professional,
Acrobat 6.0 Standard
- Installing Acrobat and associated components for PDF creation
- Overview of Acrobat interface, preferences and tools
- PDF file navigation using links and bookmarks
- Introduction to PDF file creation - creating PDF files for different
purposes
- Creating PDF files from Microsoft Office Suite Using PDF MakerMacro
- Creating PDF files from other business applications, such as FrameMaker,
WordPerfect, Lotus 123
- Using preset Acrobat Distiller settings to create PDF files
- Creating PDF files from web pages using Web Capture
Business Solutions
- Editing PDF files - touching up text, re-ordering, inserting,
cropping, deleting, replacing pages and content
- Adding navigational structures - articles, thumbnails
- Review tools for document circulation and review
- Organizing comments in the review process - email based review
- Adding page numbers and watermarks to documents
- Signing Documents with Digital Signatures
- Working with Acrobat Standard Security in Acrobat, Acrobat, Acrobat
Distiller, and PDF Maker Macro
- Adding MetaData to PDF documents
- Searching PDF files
- Filling in PDF forms
- Working with image manipulation tools
- Staging and Testing PDF collections for delivery to the Web, Intranets
or CD-ROMs
Duration: 2 day, 14 hours.
Fee: $695.00 + GST ($525.00 USD + GST).
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AC11 Acrobat 6.0 Advanced (Professional)
Learn the advanced features of Adobe Acrobat 5.0 to push Acrobat and
PDF usage to its fullest potential within your organization. This course
is directed a developing advanced users within your organization and is
unique in Canada.
Course topics include:
- Creating custom settings for Acrobat Distiller.
- Using advanced Distiller settings to process Postscript files.
- Reworking PDF files to improve performance.
- Applying and working with Digital Signatures.
- Setting up WebDav or Network servers for Advanced browswer based
document review.
- Advanced batch processing tools in Acrobat 6.0.
- Creating PDF files from paper documents using Paper Capture
- Creating interactive PDF files with Javascript.
- Building in Document level navigation structures and interactive
documents.
- Adding Catalog and index creation.
- Applying Self Sign security to PDF files
- Adding Multimedia elements to PDF documents.
- Using PDF Consultant to monitor PDF creation.
- Reflowing PDF files for use on hand held devices and PDA’s.
- Exporting to RTF, HTML, XML, Tiff, and other image formats.
- Tagging PDF documents for structured documents.
Prerequisites: AC10 Adobe Acrobat
Duration: 1 day, 7 hours.
Fee: $345.00 + GST ($295.00 USD + GST).
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AC12 Adobe Acrobat 6.0 e-Forms (Professional)
Automate your organization's use of e-Forms. Create user-friendly online
forms for use on a web site or company intranet using the forms feature
in Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional. Learn which Acrobat products work with
you to fill in, sign and save form data.
Course topics include:
- Converting paper forms into Acrobat PDF e-Forms
- Developing fields for data input and setting tab order
- Using the layout features in Acrobat to design complex e-Forms
- Using pre-scripted features in Acrobat to calculate values
- Add interactive features to make PDF e-Forms more user-friendly
- How to apply JavaScript to forms to build user interactivity
- Using Acrobat products to fill in and sign forms
Prerequisites: AC10 or permission from the instructor
Duration: 1 day, 7 hours
Fee: $345.00 CAN + GST ($295.00 USD + GST)
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AC13 Adobe Acrobat 6.0 - Accessibility (Professional)
Learn to use the new accessibility features of Acrobat 6.0 Professional
so that persons with visual impairments and physical disabilities can
get the benefits of PDF technology. Using Acrobat, students will explore
the issues relating to the creation of Accessible Adobe Acrobat PDF documents.
Note: This course is also of great interest to those working in the
Governments of Canada and Ontario who have to make web site content accessible
under the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and Government
of Canada and Common Look and Feel standards for Adobe PDF and the Ontarian
Disabilities Act.
Course topics include:
- Designing and Authoring documents for accessibility
- Understanding the range of accessibility features in Adobe Acrobat
6.0 Professional and Adobe Reader
- Creating "accessible" PDF files from Microsoft Office
- Making Accessible PDF forms
- Converting legacy documents to meet accessibility standards
- Using scanned and paper documents, making them accessible
- Using the new Read Aloud feature
- Making PDF files Accessible using Accessibility tools and the "Accessibility
Checker"
- Fixing documents to enhance accessibility and work with optimization
- Working with the "Tags" palette or window
- Manually tagging PDF files to enhance accessibility
- Working with preference setting for enhanced viewing of PDF files
for persons with visual impairments
- Testing PDF files for accessibility
- Converting PDF files to html
Prerequisites: AC10 or permission from the instructor
Available on Windows platform Only
Duration: 1 day, 7 hours
Fee: $345.00 CAN + GST ($295.00 USD + GST)
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AC14 Adobe Acrobat 6.0 - Prepress (Professional)
Discover the pre-press features of Adobe Acrobat 6.0 for creating prepress
workflow. Whether you are a graphic designer, a commercial printer or
a professional with responsibility for printing documents, the prepress
features in Adobe Acrobat 6.0 will revolutionize the way you manage your
print work.
Course topics include:
- Creating PDF files from various Adobe graphic design applications
such as Adobe Illustrator 10.0 and Adobe Photoshop 7.0, InDesign 2.0.
FrameMaker 7.0 and PageMaker 7.0
- Creating EPS and PostScript files from Acrobat
- Preparing files for commercial printing in PDF format
- Working with layers in PDF documents
- Customizing Acrobat Distiller, creating Advanced Distiller and Postscript
setting
- Using PDF file editing techniques and tools
- Controlling font embedding and substitution
- PDF imposition
Prerequisites: AC10 or permission from the instructor.
Duration: 1 day, 7 hours
Fee: $345.00 CAN$ + GST ($295.00 USD$ + GST)
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AC16 Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Javascript (Professional)
In this two day course learn how to work with Javascript in the Acrobat
environment. Learn techniques to validate data, provide user feedback
to user actions and to modify the Acrobat application.
Course topics include:
- Performing calculations.
- Responding to user actions.
- Validating user data.
- Modifying the Acrobat application
- Controlling the behavior of the document
- Dynamically modifying a documents appearance and function.
- Dynamically creating fields
- Processing multiple PDF files using batch sequences.
Prerequisites: AC10, knowledge of object oriented programming such as
Javascript or VBscript
Duration: 2 days, 14 hours.
Fee: This course is based on a custom quote. Contact us for details.
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AC17 Adobe Acrobat 6.0 e-Forms/Database Integration
In this intensive course participants will integrate forms data collected
in PDF e-Forms with database applications using ASP, Coldfusion and Javascript.
Course topics include:
- Understanding PDF e-Forms adoption and workflow in your organization.
- Working with PDF e-Forms.
- Connecting to databases using ASP, Coldfusion, and JavaScript.
- Inserting records and updating records using SQL.
- Generating responses from a database using SQL.
- Populating form fields from Databases.
- Working with PDF templates
- Using FDF and XML in PDF e-Forms
- Using ODBC, ADBC connections
Prerequisite: AC15 Adobe e-forms, working knowledge of server side scripting
language, understanding and working knowledge of SQL.
Duration: 1 day, 7 hours.
Fee: This course is based on a custom quote. Contact us for details.
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AC18 Adobe Forms Designer 5.0
Learn to use this newest tool from Adobe (formerly Accelio) for creating,
designing and programming PDF and XML forms.
Course topics include:
- Understanding PDF e-Forms adoption and workflow in your organization.
- Working with PDF e-Forms.
- Connecting to databases using ASP, Coldfusion, and JavaScript.
- Inserting records and updating records using SQL.
- Generating responses from a database using SQL.
- Populating form fields from Databases.
- Working with PDF templates
- Using FDF and XML in PDF e-Forms
- Using ODBC, ADBC connections
Prerequisite: AC15 Adobe e-forms, working knowledge of server side scripting
language, understanding and working knowledge of SQL.
Duration: 1 day, 7 hours.
Fee: This course is based on a custom quote. Contact us for details.
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