Creating Interactive PDF Documents

Adobe Acrobat helps you communicate and collaborate easily and securely using PDF, the standard for electronic document exchange. Create and reliably share PDF documents and forms, help protect and control sensitive information, safeguard your work, and communicate exactly as you intended.

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Course Information

This course show ways in which PDF can be used as a method to deliver electronic newsletters. Using files created from a number of applications the course explains how to create documents that include user navigation and interactivity; how to embed multimedia content, user forms and security. At the end of this course delegates will be able to create PDF documents from source files which can be distributed as electronic newsletters.

Course Prerequisites

Before taking this course, students should be familiar with the basic functions of their computer’s operating system

Additional Notes

Courses can be run on Windows and Macintosh platforms and tailored to meet customers’ requirements. Courses run in Edinburgh, Glasgow and at client sites throughout the UK.

Where there are operating system dependencies these are indicated in the factsheet.

Duration

1 Day

Cost

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Course Outline

Creating Interactive PDF Documents

Introducing Adobe Acrobat

  • Adobe Acrobat Feature Overview
  • PDF – Portable Document Format
  • Interactive PDF Examples

Creating PDF Documents

  • PDF Creation Settings
  • Creating PDF Documents
-Using Microsoft Office
-Using Adobe InDesign
(The use of the applications mentioned will depend the
applications used by the course attendees)

Adding Interactivity

  • Creating Bookmarks
  • Creating internal Links
  • Linking to Named Destinations
  • Creating Article Threads

Navigation Tools

  • Adding Buttons
  • Creating Actions
  • Customising Buttons’ Look and Feel

Using PDF Documents with Rich Media

  • Adding Audio
  • Adding Video
  • Adding Flash
  • Controlling Rich Media

PDF Portfolios

  • Creating a PDF Portfolio
  • Portfolio Themes
  • Adding Documents
  • Editing Settings
  • Distributing a PDF Portfolio

Adobe Presenter

  • Using Adobe Presenter

Hints and Tips

  • Interactive PDF Hints and Resources