Course
Description

Learn how to share your files electronically by email, over a network, or on the web, so that recipients can view, print, and offer feedback. In this course, you will use Adobe Acrobat 8.0 to make your information more portable, accessible, and useful to meet the needs of your target audience.

Also see Adobe's Acrobat Product Site

Emphasis

Through hands-on lessons and activities, students will be introduced to Acrobat's powerful tools for document distribution, sharing, and collaboration.

No prior Acrobat knowledge is required, although some experience with computers and common Microsoft applications, such as word processing, spreadsheet, and web browser applications will be helpful.

Topics

Using hands-on lessons, we will focus on the following basic skills:

• access information in a PDF document
• create PDF documents
• modify PDF documents
• add PDF navigation aids
• work with multiple PDF documents
• review PDF documents

Etiquette

It is expected that all students respect the following workshop guidelines:

• Courtesy (treat others as you would like to be treated)
• Be helpful (interaction and collaboration among students is encouraged)
• Ask questions (don't don't be embarrassed if you don't know something)
• All cell phones and beepers turned off

Materials

The following materials are recommended to succeed in the workshop:

• Paper or notebook, pen or pencil (to take notes)
• USB flash drives(to copy files between the lab and your personal computer)
• Textbook: Element K Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Level 1
• Download textbook starter files (50MB zip file)
• Download newspaper article
• Downoad stamp art

Macs vs. PCs

All Adobe programs are cross-platform. Macintosh and Windows computers are almost identical once you are inside an Adobe application. However pay attention to the following keyboard equivalents:

Windows	alt	ctrl	(example: ctrl+S)
Mac	opt	cmd	(example: cmd+S)