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Total Training For: Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional
Review Date: April 2005
Reviewed By: Robert Pritchett
Product Reviewed: Total Training for Acrobat 7 Professional
Total Training For: Adobe® Acrobat® 7 Professional by Tim Plumer, Jr. is an 8.6-hour, 4-CD presentation that is allowing me to perhaps justify getting Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional for the office.
By going through the training, I discovered quite a few things I didn't know about Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional, such as what works in a WinTel environment (and not in a Mac environment), the new Organizer, performing Editing and Commenting, Creating Forms and of course, all the topics on the Advanced Acrobat CD.
At the office, I ran the Total Training program on an XP Pro system, and discovered that this program is quite a memory hog. The Total Training player also has to be installed on either platform and apparently comes in two parts, so when the first time it says it is finished and an2nd screen pops up indicating it is ready to install (again), let it. It is Part 2. This behavior was duplicated on the Mac, however, on the Mac, with 1 GB of RAM the training experience was noticeably enhanced. I found that I could not turn off the header/footer constant-advertising banners. (Note to Total Training Marketing: Three links to the same website, plus the contact information in the sidebar is a bit over-the-top for me, especially since I already bought the training product. One in-your-face link is enough. Subtle is good.) After nearly going through 3/4ths of the way., I tripped over a zoom-in, zoom-out function (after I turned on Universal Access in Mac OS X) and that made the controls disappear when I moused over the lessons and clicked. Clicking again allowed the controls to reappear. Sweet!
Another difference between the Mac and WinTel presentation modes is that on the Mac the fast-forward function can be done in 2 times or 4 times normal speed instead of just 2 times as on the WinTel machine I was using (and not in VPC7 mode). And yes, 2 times is “chipmunk-speak mode” and for the most part, is understandable on the Mac, while on the PC it was rather unintelligible.
Since I have Adobe Acrobat Standard on the Mac and Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional on the PC, I found the updates in Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional intriguing and very desireable.
I can see why Total Training grabbed Tim Plumer, Jr. to teach the use of Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional. Obviously, he is very comfortable with the product and is also comfortable between it and other applications that interface with it as well as having a working knowledge of how Adobe Acrobat 7 is used on a Mac. Audio is perfect on either platform.
Each CD has 5 Sections divided up into a number of 1 to 8 or so minutes of excellent subject instruction with anywhere from 4 to 10 video clips per chapter. Each CD also has Project File folders, so we can follow along with the instructor, and he always points out when the included files can be used.
If you think this $200 USD CD set is spendy for a $450 USD program, compare that to sending someone off to “suitcase training” for a day or two with a retention rate of perhaps 20%. Now you can go back and re-review what was missed or skimmed over, due to distraction or lack of concentration.
Yes, this Total Training CD set for Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional is worth every penny! (much of the information is backward-compatible) Now all I need to do is get a copy of Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional (Adobe promised to send me the Mac OS X version) and I'll be set.
View original at www.maccompanion.com
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