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Dorcas Chao: [email protected] Faculty Development Institute (FDI): http://www.fdi.vt.edu/ Adobe Acrobat 9: Creating PDF Files for Instruction Dorcas Chao Spring 2009 FDI

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Page 1: Adobe Acrobat 9: Creating s for Instruction

Dorcas Chao: [email protected] Development Institute (FDI): http://www.fdi.vt.edu/

Adobe Acrobat 9:Creating PDF Files for Instruction

Dorcas ChaoSpring 2009 FDI

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Dorcas Chao: [email protected] Development Institute (FDI): http://www.fdi.vt.edu/

Agenda Overview of PDFs in Teaching,

Learning & Research Features of Adobe Acrobat 8 Pro Creation of PDFs with Acrobat 8 Hands-on Activities (Through-out)

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Dorcas Chao: [email protected] Development Institute (FDI): http://www.fdi.vt.edu/

Discussion What does PDF stand for? How often do you use PDFs?

What for?

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Dorcas Chao: [email protected] Development Institute (FDI): http://www.fdi.vt.edu/

Overview of PDFs in Teaching, Learning& Research Portable Document Format

Takes a consistent look

Shares files even if audiencedo not have the sourcesoftware

Web ready files for online andoffline use

Customizable security policies

Easy for distributing,organizing, annotating andarchiving files

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Dorcas Chao: [email protected] Development Institute (FDI): http://www.fdi.vt.edu/

What’s New with Acrobat 9 Pro?

PDF creation, editing, and searching Collaboration Forms Multimedia and 3D models And much more…

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PDF/A Subset of PDF Long-term archival storage 100% Self-contained documents

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Dorcas Chao: [email protected] Development Institute (FDI): http://www.fdi.vt.edu/

OCR (Optical Character Recognition)

OCR recognition enables Searchable text Screenreader accessibility Exportation to Microsoft Word

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Dorcas Chao: [email protected] Development Institute (FDI): http://www.fdi.vt.edu/

Additional Resources InnovationSpace (1040 Torg) Element K: Tutorials for Acrobat 9 Adobe Help and Support

http://www.adobe.com/support/acrobat/

Adobe Acrobat User Community:http://www.acrobatusers.com/