Contents
Acrobat Pro and Acrobat Standard
Options for purchasing Acrobat DC
Adobe Authorized Training Centers
1 INTRODUCING ADOBE ACROBAT DC
About the Acrobat DC mobile app
Adding Acrobat Reader installers
Viewing PDF presentations in Full Screen mode
Viewing PDF files in Read mode
Setting Acrobat preferences for web browsing
Customizing the Acrobat toolbar
Customizing the brightness of the user interface
About creating Adobe PDF files
Saving PDF files to cloud accounts
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 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
Applying Bates numbering (Acrobat Pro only)
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
Converting Microsoft Word files to Adobe PDF (Windows)
Creating Adobe PDF files from Word mail-merge templates
Converting Word documents to PDF (Mac OS)
Converting Excel documents (Windows)
Converting Excel spreadsheets (Mac OS)
Using the spreadsheet split view
Converting PowerPoint presentations (Windows)
Converting PowerPoint presentations (Mac OS)
Creating a PDF Portfolio (Acrobat Pro)
8 ADDING SIGNATURES AND SECURITY
Viewing documents in Protected Mode in Reader (Windows only)
Sending a document for others to sign
Signing a document digitally with certificates and digital IDs
Sharing certificates with others
Securing PDFs in FIPS mode (Windows)
9 USING ACROBAT IN A REVIEW CYCLE
Adding comments to a PDF document
Initiating an email-based review
Comparing versions of documents
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 ACTIONS (ACROBAT PRO)
Avoiding the Full Screen mode warning
12 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