Adobe Acrobat DC: PDF Commenting for AEC

Course details

Architects, engineers, and construction professionals use Acrobat DC in a unique way. They review and share more complex, large-scale CAD drawings than the typical Acrobat user. Luckily, there are some tips and tricks that can help AEC professionals navigate, review, and share PDF documents in Acrobat with ease. This course is specifically tailored for people in these industries who need to communicate more efficiently and effectively with their teams and clients.

Learn how to locate the markup tools, choose the right tool for the job, get quick access with keyboard shortcuts, and customize your Acrobat workspace. These lessons can be applied to a variety of PDFs, from technical manuals to 3D models, floorplans to wiring diagrams. Instructor Kelly Vaughn—a technical documentation expert—also shows how to sort, track, share, and print comments, and introduces some scripts designed to temporarily enlarge comments and color code sticky notes.

Learning objectives
Maximizing your workspace
Customizing shortcuts
Working with different kinds of PDFs
Using the text and drawing markup tools
Using measuring tools
Sorting comments
Sharing comments
Tracking comments
Using custom scripts
Printing comments

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What you should know
03 - Using the exercise files

1. Overview of the Acrobat Workspace

04 - The Acrobat workspace
05 - Maximizing your workspace
06 - Working with the navigation pane, toolbar, and Quick Tools
07 - Customizing tool shortcuts in Acrobat XI

2. About PDFs

08 - Scanned PDFs
09 - Vector PDFs with searchable text
10 - Vector PDFs with non-searchable text
11 - 3D PDFs

3. Commenting Tools

12 - Why you should use the commenting tools
13 - Using the standard text markup tools
14 - Using the drawing markup tools
15 - Recent improvements to the highlighter tool
16 - Using the measuring tools
17 - Using the Properties toolbar

4. Making Sense out of Commented Documents

18 - Color-coding comments
19 - Sorting comments by color
20 - Sorting and filtering comments

5. Sharing Comments across a Team

21 - Interacting with comments
22 - Manual collection of comments
23 - Send for Comments by email
24 - Send for Shared Commenting
25 - Track comments
26 - Commenting within Dropbox - A cautionary warning

6. Using Custom Scripts

27 - Enlarging sticky notes and text
28 - Changing the properties of sticky notes

7. Getting Your Comments Printed Out

29 - Printing to scale and comment summary
30 - Create comment summary

Conclusion

31 - Next steps