Acrobat 4 Seminar Outline
Why Acrobat? (15 min)
- Distribute handouts and eval-forms
- webpage
- Show demo documents:
- Point out resources:
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)
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)
Last Modified: June 17, 1999 vk