Adobe

Foxit PDF Essentials

Day One – Working with PDFs

Introduction

« Why use PDF files at all?
« PDF authoring and reading tools
« PDF Editor overview

Interface

« Workspace basics
« Preferences and customization

Reading PDFs

« Multi-tab and single document reading
« Navigating through a document
« Adjusting the page view
« Adjusting the view mode
« PDF file comparison
« Commenting on documents

Creating PDFs

« Create PDFs in PDF Editor
« Create PDFs from multiple files
« Create a PDF from a web page
« Creating PDFs from scanned documents
« Create a PDF from Microsoft apps

 

Combining documents

« Combining Documents
« Creating a merged document

Adding navigation

« Adding web links
« Adding navigation links
« Add and edit bookmarks
« Managing destinations

Editing your PDF

« Inserting pages
« Rotate, move, swap and delete pages
« Extract, duplicate and replace pages
« Split PDFs into multiple files
« Editing text
« Adding running headers and footers
« Formatting page numbers

Document properties

« What is metadata and what is it good for?
« Why use initial view settings?

Protecting your document

« Basic security options
« Certification protection
« Creating security policies

Day Two – Creating Fillable Forms

Design considerations

« Aspects of user friendly forms
« Appropriate typefaces
« Design tips

Creating and Editing Forms

« Acrobat field types
« Creating text fields
« Creating combo boxes
« Creating list boxes
« Creating checkboxes
« Creating radio buttons
« Buttons and actions
« Self populating fields
« Properties dialog box
« Formatting tips
« Read-only fields

Arranging form fields

« Select multiple form fields
« Align multiple form fields
« Resize multiple form fields
« Ensuring proper Tab order

Using calculations in forms

« Simple calculations
« Simple javascript calculations
« Calculating tax and shipping costs
« Assigning values to drop down boxes

Distributing Forms

« Enabling pdfs for Reader apps
« Distributing pdf forms by email
« Collecting data from forms

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