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VCT/350 Week 1 Desktop Publishing With Acrobat Professional Brand New 2017 Version! Includes: (1) Steps to Create a First Acrobat document. (Including 2-page Word document, editable and searchable PDF file, and explanation of steps). (2) Customizing the Tools Pane Supporting Activity question. Individual: Create a First Acrobat Document Individual: Scan a two page document or locate a copyright-free image containing text and save as a PDF file. Make the scanned text or text within the image editable and searchable. Submit the editable and searchable PDF file along with an explanation of the steps that you took to complete this assignment using the Assignment Files tab. Supporting Activity: Customizing the Tools Pane The Tools pane in Adobe Acrobat DC displays the most commonly used panels. Add two panels and remove two panels from the pre-set configuration. Reply to this post by submitting a screenshot along with a discussion as to why you added and removed those panels. Also, provide a description of the available panels and why they might be useful to you.


VCT/350 Week 2 Desktop Publishing With Acrobat Professional Brand New 2017 Version! Includes: (1) Learning Team Part I: Mock-up (2) Individual Combine and Rotate Assignment (3) Individual Research Assignment (4) Creating Bookmarks Supporting Activity question. Learning Team: Adobe Acrobat Portfolio Demonstration Part I: Mock-up Includes 2 Options for Team Assignment Pick a theme for your Adobe Acrobat Portfolio such as a cookbook or another topic your team agrees upon. Review the topics and objectives listed for each week in the syllabus. Your team's goal is to create an Adobe® Acrobat® Portfolio using your selected theme that demonstrates your team's mastery over the Adobe Acrobat DC techniques you have learned in each week. Create a preliminary mock-up (a drawing that shows the documents you intend to include in your portfolio.) You can hand draw and scan to a PDF file or create via Microsoft Office and convert to a PDF. At a minimum, your completed Adobe Acrobat Portfolio is expected to demonstrate the following: • Use of find and search features • Use of navigation options • Creating PDF documents from various sources • Saving PDF files in alternative formats • Combining PDF documents • Use of actions and interactive objects • Use of forms • Use of security techniques • Use of reviewing techniques • Ability to publish final documents Submit your scanned or converted PDF file to the Assignment Files tab. Individual: Combine and Rotate Create two Word documents. One should contain your resume and the other should contain at least two pictures of you. Convert both Word files to PDF files and name them PDF1 and PDF2. Insert one of the pictures from PDF2 into PDF1. Rotate the page containing the picture (PDF1) counterclockwise 90 degrees. Save to a third PDF file (PDF3). Submit all three PDF files along with an explanation of the steps you took to complete this assignment to the Assignment Files tab. Individual: Research Find a current article about best practices for modifying and enhancing PDF documents. Use an existing Word document of your choice and incorporate the best practices discussed in the article. Save the document as a .PDF file. Submit your original document along with the PDF to the Assignment Files tab. Supporting Activity: Creating Bookmarks Create and convert a five page Word document that has a different heading on each page (e.g. Chapter 1, Chapter 2, etc.) to PDF format. Create a bookmark for each of the five pages. Replay to this post with the PDF file and an explanation of the steps you took to complete this assignment. Discuss how bookmarks might be used in a business document.

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VCT/350 Week 3 Desktop Publishing With Acrobat Professional Brand New 2017 Version! Learning Team: Status Report Part II: Create, Modify and Enhance Create a three page Word document that explains to your audience the theme of your project and what documents your project will include. Provide instructions on navigating, finding, and searching PDF documents. Convert the Word file created in step I to a PDF file. Modify the PDF as follows: • Number the pages • Add a table of contents that is capable of linking to each of the three pages. Create an Excel spreadsheet that contains a brief list of the tasks you need to accomplish to complete this project. Create a combined PDF file that contains both the original PDF file created and the Excel® spreadsheet. Save the PDF file in an alternative format. Create your portfolio file (e.g. TeamAPortfolio.pdf). Include both files (the combined PDF file and the PDF file saved in an alternative format) in your portfolio. In addition, include in the portfolio of the mock-up PDF file you created in Part I (see Week Two). Create other PDF files per your mock-up and incorporate these into your portfolio. Assignment: Write a 1- to 2-paragraph Learning Team Status Report including the following: • What the Learning Team accomplished for the week • Any issues encountered • Plans for the next week Submit your Status Report to the Assignment Files tab. Individual: Using the Accessibility Tools Use the Accessibility Tools to create an accessible PDF from the final resume PDF you created in Week Two. Run a Full Check on your document and fix all issues as reported by the Accessibility Report. Submit the accessible PDF file along with an explanation of the steps you took to complete this assignment to the Assignment Files tab. Individual: Working with Form Data Create a form with three numeric fields. Use the Adobe file validation feature to make sure each value entered is between 0 and 50. Create a Word document that discusseshow Adobe can be used to calculate the values used in form fields. Also, discuss the steps used to complete the assignment. Convert your Document to a PDF file. Submit the PDF form file along with the PDF file that contains the explanation of the steps you took to complete this assignment using the Assignment Files tab. Supporting Activity: Creating PDF Forms Create a PDF form using the Prepare Form tool. Add three to five fields or form elements and customize the text or fields by using at least two different types of font size and color. Save as a PDF file. Reply to this post by submitting the PDF file along with an explanation of the steps you took to complete this assignment. Discuss why you would choose Adobe Acrobat to create forms in a professional environment. Supporting Activity: Creating and Modifying Actions Create a new action using the Action Wizard. The action should contain at least three operations. Test your action. Modify the action to change or add at least one operation. Test your modified action. Discuss the benefits of using actions in Acrobat.

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VCT/350 Week 4 Desktop Publishing With Acrobat Professional Brand New 2017 Version! Learning Team: Status Report Part III: Actions and Forms Create a form that solicits information from your audience. The form should contain at least five text fields, one check box, and one action button (e.g. going to a different field, submitting the form, or clearing the form fields.) Add an interactive object (e.g. sound) to this form. Use the Action Wizard to optimize the PDF file you created for web and mobile. Incorporate the resulting PDF file into your portfolio. Assignment: Write a 1- to 2-paragraph Learning Team Status Report. Include the following: • What the Learning Team accomplished for the week • Any issues encountered • Plans for the next week Submit the Status Report according to your facilitator's instructions to the Assignment Files tab. Individual: Using Commenting Tools Use your resume PDF from last week an modify the PDF as follows: • Add two sticky notes • Highlight two lines of text • Underline one word in any line of the text • Use the callout tool to comment on one line of text • Use the cloud drawing tool to emphasize any word in any line Submit the PDF file along with an explanation of why you might use the Record Audio tool for commenting and reviewing PDF files to the Assignment Files tab. Individual: Research Find a current article about best practices for constructing a shareable PDF document. Use an existing Word document of your choice and incorporate the best practices for constructing a shareable PDF document discussed in the article. Submit your original document along with the shareable version to the Assignment Files tab. Supporting Activity: E-mail Based Reviews Use or create a web-based e-mail account (e.g. gmail), to go through the process of preparing for an e-mailed review of a PDF document by using the Send for Comments by E-mail tool. Take a screen shot of each step as you proceed through the process and pastethe screen shots in one Word document. Be sure to include yourself in the list of reviewers. Submit the Word document containing your step-by-step screenshots as well as a copy of the email you received. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of e-mail based reviews.

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VCT/350 Week 5 Desktop Publishing With Acrobat Professional Brand New 2017 Version! Learning Team: Adobe Acrobat Portfolio Demonstration Part IV: Commenting and Publishing Incorporate at least one New Comment per listed document in your mock-up PDF. Each comment should mention the Adobe Acrobat features used to create the document. Certify the mock-up PDF file. Preflight your mock-up file. When the preflight has been completed, click on the Create Report button to generate a report. Save as a PDF file. Include this in your portfolio. Include, in the Portfolio, a log of the specific steps your team took to develop the Portfolio. Submit the completed Portfolio PDF file to the Assignment Files tab. Individual: Career Opportunities Write a 1- to 2-page paper discussing what professional organizations might you join and what websites might you visit that would provide insight into a career that includes responsibility for creating, modifying, and enhancing PDF documents. Submit your paper to the Assignment Files tab. Supporting Activity: Securing the PDF Add security and the ability to add a signature to any PDF document you created in this class. Reply to this post with the PDF and an explanation as to the steps you took to complete this assignment. Discuss the reasons why you would want to add security to a PDF document. Supporting Activity: Touch-Based Mode What resources does Adobe Acrobat provide that enable the developer to generate documents that are touchenabled? How is publishing for a mobile device different than publishing for the Web? Discuss any applicable Adobe standards.