Adobe Acrobat 9: Creating PDF Files for Instruction
1. Adobe Acrobat 9:
Creating PDF Files for Instruction
Dorcas Chao
Spring 2009 FDI
Dorcas Chao: dchao@vt.edu
Faculty Development Institute (FDI): http://www.fdi.vt.edu/
2. 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)
Dorcas Chao: dchao@vt.edu
Faculty Development Institute (FDI): http://www.fdi.vt.edu/
3. Discussion
What does PDF stand for?
How often do you use PDFs?
What for?
Dorcas Chao: dchao@vt.edu
Faculty Development Institute (FDI): http://www.fdi.vt.edu/
4. Overview of PDFs in Teaching, Learning
& Research
Portable Document Format
Takes a consistent look
Shares files even if audience
do not have the source
software
Web ready files for online and
offline use
Customizable security policies
Easy for distributing,
organizing, annotating and
archiving files
Dorcas Chao: dchao@vt.edu
Faculty Development Institute (FDI): http://www.fdi.vt.edu/
5. What’s New with Acrobat 9 Pro?
PDF creation, editing, and searching
Collaboration
Forms
Multimedia and 3D models
And much more…
Dorcas Chao: dchao@vt.edu
Faculty Development Institute (FDI): http://www.fdi.vt.edu/
6. PDF/A
Subset of PDF
Long-term archival storage
100% Self-contained documents
Dorcas Chao: dchao@vt.edu
Faculty Development Institute (FDI): http://www.fdi.vt.edu/
7. OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
OCR recognition enables
Searchable text
Screenreader accessibility
Exportation to Microsoft Word
Dorcas Chao: dchao@vt.edu
Faculty Development Institute (FDI): http://www.fdi.vt.edu/
8. 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/
Dorcas Chao: dchao@vt.edu
Faculty Development Institute (FDI): http://www.fdi.vt.edu/