Acrobat 4 Seminar Outline

Why Acrobat? (15 min)

• Distribute handouts and eval-forms
• webpage
• Show demo documents:
  • Timaeus (Filesize 68K, Full-screen mode)
  • Presentations How-to (Fidelity, Security)
  • PDF specification (Navigation features, Search)
• Point out resources:
  • Internet Publishing with Acrobat
  • Acrobat 4 Classroom-In-A-Book by Adobe Press ($45)
  • Adobe Magazine, available online at adobe.com

Adobe Acrobat Suite Overview (10 min)

• webpage
• Reader was demo-ed already
• Most creation tools shown in How-To section
• Show touch-up, search, annotate, highlight in Exchange

PDFwriter or Distiller? (5 min)

• webpage
• document contains EPS files: Distiller (PDFwriter uses previews!)
• Distiller provides more control, better quality for printing
• PDFwriter simpler

How-To Information (30 min)

• webpage
• demo PDFwriter, one-click operation
• demo Distiller, choosing options
• then print to Distiller Assistant
• open output in Exchange, create thumbnails, move/delete pages
• create bookmarks and hyperlinks, organize bookmarks
• web-capture (needs laptop, as elc has only Acrobat3)
• form-tool (if time permits, probably not)

Preparing Acrobat Documents for the Web (10 min)

• point out second handout
• webpage
• create document info and hyperlinks in Word, then convert with PDFmaker
• show differences between distilled and PDFwritten documents (size, text/image resolution)
• demonstrate effect of font-embedding on size

Acrobat for Special Purposes (5 min or drop this)

• webpage

Obtaining Acrobat

• webpage
• currently only 3.01 in labs, elc, server-services, tigger
• but students also have only Reader 3.01 from NSKit,
  version 4.0 (in new NSKit) will take long to become widely distributed

Questions and Answers (15 min)