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Adobe Acrobat 9 Tutorial Video

Learn how to use Adobe Acrobat 9 from one of the world’s leading trainers, from the comfort of your own desk.

Adobe Acrobat 9 Tutorial Video

Adobe Acrobat 9 Tutorial Video – Training
This multi-part Adobe Acrobat 9 tutorial video is a great resource for new users wanting to learn Acrobat and a solid reference tool for more advanced users looking to refine their knowledge with some expert tips and techniques.  Heavy on hands-on examples, these tutorials show you what you need to know, without the confusing descriptions you’d find in a book.

Written by veteran software educator Geoff Blake, the course takes a fundamentals-first approach, introducing users to the program’s interface and settings before building basic pages that get more sophisticated with each video lesson presented.  The strength of the training is in its power to show how each technique or effect is done: with a real-time video feed of Acrobat in use, you see first-hand how the program works. The files used in the tutorials are provided with the course, to make following along even easier.
Blake covers several popular points of interest, including adding watermarks, reducing PDF file size, adding security to documents, extracting content from existing PDFs, creating hyperlinks and navigational elements within a document, and using Acrobat’s commenting and collaboration tools, among others.
Adobe Acrobat: Past and The Future.

Adobe Acrobat and the PDF format have always been a convenient way to share one specifically formatted document or form with another person and know that the file can be viewed and printed exactly as it is supposed to look.  It’s the core functionality of Acrobat, and it’s just as strong as ever.  With the improvements in Web Pages through CSS and better interoperability between different word processors, there are more feasible options to consider, but when you’re putting out a document that incorporates vector images along with text or an official version of a contract or form that must look the same every time, Acrobat is still the way to go.

For the next stage of Acrobat’s development, Adobe has made the program into a powerful business tool.  Drawing from the impressive advances that have been made with its Flash video format and the H.264 codec, Adobe has made it extremely easy to imbed and play video within PDF files, either using native FLV videos or files of nearly any format that simply use Flash as a container.  As the prices in HD technology continue to go down, video is the future, and it’s nice of Adobe to take note of this in their entire product line.
Another big step forward in Adobe Acrobat 9 is its collaboration tools.  Drawing from the success of cloud computing platforms, Adobe has launched Acrobat.com, which has special services for data gathering for user-submitted forms, basic web conferencing for real-time collaboration, and inventive sharing features that allow working with colleagues and clients with ease.  Within Acrobat itself, a tandem viewing feature allows two people to work on one document at the same time while keeping everything up to date so you don’t have to.
Though often slow to adopt new and useful features, Adobe has made some bold moves in Acrobat 9.  To learn how you can take advantage of some of the program’s more powerful features, give these tutorial video lessons a look.