NSU Oceanographic Campus Library Software Resources: Adobe Acrobat
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Library Resources
Adobe Acrobat DC - Classroom in a Book by
Adobe Acrobat DC Classroom in a Book is the most thorough and comprehensive way for students to learn how to reliably create, edit, and sign PDF documents and forms with Adobe Acrobat DC. Each of the 13 lessons in this step-by-step, project-based guide contains a project that builds on their growing knowledge of the program, while end-of-chapter review questions reinforce each lesson. This cross-platform (Mac and Windows) book shows students how to collaborate effectively through electronic reviews, easily share their work across multiple platforms and devices (including via the new Adobe Document Cloud service), and speed up their production and business task workflow with Acrobat DC. All of the book's screenshots have been updated for the new edition, showing users how to navigate the completely overhauled user interface-a selling point for existing users of the software. Readers will also learn how to use the new Tool pane so they can easily convert files (Microsoft Office documents and graphics) to PDF and then learn how to directly edit text and images in their PDFs. They'll also learn how to use the newly refreshed tools to build PDF or web forms, speed up business workflow by gathering feedback and approval via online document reviews. And they'll learn how to create interactive forms and track responses within Acrobat, how to add signatures and security to their PDF files, and much more. All of the project files used in the book's lessons are available for readers to download at peachpit.com.
Call Number: E-BOOKISBN: 9780134171838Publication Date: 2015-06-08
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Online Tutorials and Training
- Acrobat DC Essential Training
This foundational course teaches everything you need to know to create, edit, and manage PDFs in the Acrobat DC family of programs: Acrobat Pro, Acrobat Standard, and Acrobat Reader. Author Claudia McCue shows how to create PDFs using source material from Microsoft Office, Adobe CC, web pages, and scans, and edit and combine PDFs. She also demonstrates how to create fillable forms, gather comments and review PDFs, esign documents, and add audio, video, and links to PDFs. - Learning Acrobat Reader DC
Discover how to get started using Adobe Reader DC. Garrick Chow covers the basics of working with PDFs in the free Adobe Reader DC, including marking up text, searching for text, commenting, stamping documents, adding attachments, filling out forms, and electronically signing documents. Plus, learn how to use the Mobile Link feature included in Acrobat DC, which keeps PDFs synced across computers, phones, and tablets. - Acrobat DC: Creating Accessible PDFs
Accessibility means making sure your content is available to as many people as possible. When you make your PDFs accessible, it means adding tags, bookmarks, alt text, and other information that makes the files readable to users who are visually or mobility impaired. Using Acrobat DC, and other tools such as Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign, it's now much easier and faster to create valid, accessible PDF files. In this course, Chad Chelius explains why accessibility is important and what features an accessible PDF should include, and shows how to streamline the process of creating accessible PDFs using Word, Excel, PowerPoint, InDesign, and Acrobat DC. - Acrobat DC: Creating Forms
Learn how to take static PDF documents and turn them into interactive forms with Acrobat DC. Garrick Chow shows how to add interactive form fields—everything from text and check boxes to radio buttons and list boxes—and how to trigger actions with buttons. The course also explores how to automate form creation with the Form Wizard, perform calculations, work with signatures, distribute forms, and use the data gathered from forms.