This document provides an overview of expanded features in Adobe Acrobat X Pro for content reviews, combining different file types into a single PDF portfolio, and using Acrobat with eLearning tools. It describes features for collaborating on reviews, managing email-based and shared reviews, playing multimedia, and adding PDFs to other programs. Resources for additional documentation, video training, and user communities are also listed.

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Debbie Richards
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2. OVERVIEW

3. Introduction
In this hands-on session, you will learn how to use
expanded features in Adobe Acrobat X Pro to:
• Speed up content reviews
• Efficiently receive and process rich content
• Combine a variety of file types into a single PDF Portfolio (including
email messages, scans and web content).
You’ll also how to effectively combine Adobe Acrobat Pro
with some of your favorite eLearning development tools
such as Adobe Captivate and Articulate Studio.

4. Acrobat X Product Features

5. CONTENT REVIEW

6. Content Reviews

7. Collaborate Live
• Use Collaborate Live to review a PDF with one or more
remote users in an online session.
• In a Collaborate Live session, the participants view a document
with a live chat window.
• When a participant shares a document, the page number and
magnification are also shared, so that everyone sees the same part
of a document.
• To start a Collaborate Live session, you must have
Acrobat X installed.
• Participants in a Collaborate Live session must have
Acrobat X or Adobe Reader® X.

8. Managed PDF reviews
• You don’t have to import comments, enable commenting
for Reader users, or manually track reviewer responses.
• Note: You must have Acrobat Pro installed to enable commenting
for Reader users in managed reviews. You cannot enable
commenting for Reader users using Acrobat Standard.
• Acrobat includes two types of managed reviews: shared
and email-based reviews.
• Each type of review has a wizard that helps you distribute a PDF
with special tools and instructions to reviewers.

9. Email-based Reviews
• Email-based reviews are ideal when reviewers either
don’t have access to a common server or don’t require a
collaborative approach to reviewing documents.
• In an email-based review, the initiator sends a PDF to reviewers as
an email attachment.
• Reviewers add their comments and return the document by using
the Send Comments button in the document message bar.
• When receiving these comments, the initiator can merge them into
their copy of the PDF.
• The primary limitation to email-based reviews is that
participants can’t view other comments during the review.
• Initiators can view comments only after receiving them.

10. Shared Reviews
• Shared reviews are the most collaborative form of review
because participants can read and reply to the comments
of other participants.
• Comments from participants are stored in a repository on
Acrobat.com or on an internal server.
• Acrobat synchronizes comments at regular intervals to
download all the latest changes.
• Reviewers are notified of new comments as they are
added, and they can see and reply to comments made by
other reviewers.

11. MULTIMEDIA

12. Play multimedia
• Interactive multimedia
• Includes SWF files
• Video
• MOV, M4V, 3GP, and 3G2 video files that use H.264
compression.
• FLV, F4V, MP3, and MP4 files.
• Audio
• Includes audio files, such as MP3 and MP4
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/pro/using/WS65B80E79-F165-44f0-
BBCA-0F142A758696.html
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adobe-digital-school-collection/adding-rich-
media-to-pdf-files/

13. Example: Sharing Video for Commenting
• Convert to FL4 using Adobe
Media Encoder (choose a
small format and turn off
audio)
• Insert into Adobe Acrobat
(Insert Video)
• Get back only comments –
Acrobat Shared Review

14. PORTFOLIO

15. PDF Portfolio
• Contains multiple files
assembled into an integrated
PDF unit.
• Note: Acrobat Standard and
Adobe Reader® users
cannot create PDF Portfolios
or edit the layout, colors,
headers, and so on.

16. USING PDFS

17. Adding a PDF to Articulate Presenter
• Add as a web object
• Put in folder
• PDF
• HTML page (filename = index.html)
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<embed src="form.pdf#toolbar=0&navpanes=0&scrollbar=0"
width="640" height="480">
</body>
</html> http://daveperso.mediaenglishonline.com/2010/12/
08/working-with-pdfs-in-articulate-presenter/

18. Adding a PDF to Adobe Captivate
http://captivatedev.com/2010/11/05/adobe-captivate-5-web-page-widget/

19. ACROBAT MOBILE

20. Adobe CreatePDF
http://www.adobe.com/products/createpdf-mobile.html

21. Adobe Reader X for Mobile Devices
• The free Adobe® Reader® X mobile app lets you easily
view and work with PDF files on Android™ and iOS
devices, including iPad and iPhone.
http://www.adobe.com/products/reader-mobile.html

22. RESOURCES

23. Additional Documents
• http://cii-ftp.com/eldc2012/ELDC2012_Acrobat_Docs.zip

24. General
• Product Comparison -
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/matrix.html?prom
oid=JQCSC
• Adobe TV – Acrobat
http://tv.adobe.com/product/acrobat/
• Acrobat User Community
http://acrobatusers.com/

25. PDF Portfolio
• What is a PDF Portfolio?:
www.adobe.com/go/lrvid_021_acrx_en
• Working in PDF Portfolios:
www.adobe.com/go/lrvid_023_acrx_en84
• How to customize your PDF Portfolio:
www.adobe.com/go/lrvid_022_acrx_en
• PDF Portfolio gallery:
www.acrobatusers.com/gallery/pdf_portfolio_gallery

26. Free Video Training
• Learn Adobe Acrobat X
• The Top Ten Features of Adobe Acrobat X
• Adobe Acrobat X ePortfolio Workshop
• Grand Tour - http://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/acrobat-x-
grand-tour