Create an Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Using Adobe Acrobat

Create an ETD Using Adobe Acrobat
Introduction
Cr eate an
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
® ®® ®Using Adobe Acrobat
Tutorial created by Ohio State University, Technology Enhanced Learning & Research
With support from Adobe Systems

Introduction

This tutorial was created to help you learn how to convert your own thesis or
dissertation into a PDF file using Adobe® Acrobat® Standard or Professional. This Tip
lesson was written for Acrobat 6.0 Standard or Professional. However, you should To avoid any difficulty
easily be able to duplicate the following steps in later versions of Acrobat. You must navigating through
have the software installed on your computer to create a PDF file. Adobe Reader®, the tutorial, open
the tutorial using the which is freely available for downloading from the Adobe Web site, can only be used
stand-alone version to read a PDF file. You cannot use it to create a PDF file.
of Adobe Acrobat
rather than opening
The tutorial consisits of five lessons, each containing exercises to help you complete the Acrobat files via
specific tasks. Each exercise links to a corresponding demo movie so you can see Internet Explorer.
the task performed. To view the demo, either click on the button by each
exercise title or click the corresponding bookmark in the
navigation pane. Your browser will open to display the View Demo
movie page. Click the play button to begin the demo.
Create an ETD Using Adobe Acrobat:
Lesson 1: Read an ...