Contents
Acrobat Pro and Acrobat Standard
Copying the Classroom in a Book files
1 Introducing Adobe Acrobat XI
Adding Adobe Reader installers
Same tools, different locations
Using keyboard shortcuts to select tools
Viewing PDF presentations in Full Screen mode
Viewing PDF files in Read mode
Designing documents for online viewing
Setting Acrobat preferences for web browsing
Customizing the Quick Tools toolbar
About creating Adobe PDF files
Creating Adobe PDFs from Microsoft Office files (Mac OS)
Converting different types of files
Using the Print command to create Adobe PDF files
Optimizing PDF files (Acrobat Pro only)
Creating files from the clipboard
Making scanned text editable and searchable
Converting email messages to PDF (Windows)
Converting web pages to Adobe PDF
3 Reading and Working with PDF Files
About flexibility, accessibility, and structure
Working with accessible documents
Making files flexible and accessible (Acrobat Pro only)
Using Acrobat accessibility features (Standard and Pro)
Moving pages with page thumbnails
Naming bookmarks automatically
Setting document properties and metadata
5 Editing Content in PDF Files
Redacting text (Acrobat Pro only)
Working with images in a PDF file
Copying text and images from a PDF file
Exporting PDF content to a PowerPoint presentation
Saving PDF files as Word documents
Extracting PDF tables as Excel spreadsheets
6 Using Acrobat with Microsoft Office Files (Windows)
Converting Microsoft Word files to Adobe PDF
Creating Adobe PDF files from Word mail-merge templates
Converting Excel documents and starting a review
Converting PowerPoint presentations
Converting web pages from Internet Explorer
Creating a PDF Portfolio (Acrobat Pro)
8 Adding Signatures and Security
Viewing documents in Protected Mode (Windows only)
Sharing certificates with others
Securing PDFs in FIPS mode (Windows)
Exploring on your own: Using security envelopes
9 Using Acrobat in a Review Cycle
Adding comments to a PDF document
Starting an email-based review
10 Working with Forms in Acrobat
Converting PDF files to interactive PDF forms
Options for distributing forms
Exploring on your own: Calculating and validating numeric fields
11 Using FormsCentral (Acrobat Pro)
Creating a form from a template
12 Using Actions (Acrobat Pro)
Avoiding the Full Screen mode warning
13 Using Acrobat in Professional Printing
Creating PDF files for print and prepress
Guidelines for creating print-ready PDF files
Preflighting files (Acrobat Pro)
Working with transparency (Acrobat Pro)
About flattening options in the Flattener Preview dialog box