Acrobat Domain 1 - Working in the Design Industry

These objectives cover critical concepts related to working with colleagues and clients as well as crucial legal, technical, and document management-related knowledge. This section contains presentations, projects, and quizzes to help you pass the Adobe Acrobat CC Certification Exam.

1.1 Identify the purpose, audience, and audience needs when preparing documents.

a. Determine whether content is relevant to the purpose, audience, audience needs, user experience, and has an appropriate configuration for target devices.
  • Key Terms: client goals, target audience, demographics, accessibility, etc.
b. Identify requirements based on how the document will be used, including web, print, and mobile..

1.2 Communicate with colleagues and clients about document development.

a. Demonstrate knowledge of techniques for communicating about document development with peers and clients.

  • Key Terms: document requirements, specifications, versions, change orders, drafts,etc.

b. Demonstrate knowledge of basic project management concepts.

  •  Key Terms: project scope, scope creep, document sharing, cloud collaboration and file management.

1.3 Determine the appropriate type of copyright, permissions, and licensing required to use specific content.

a. Identify legal and ethical considerations for using third-party content, such as copyright, permissions, and licensing.

  • Key Concepts: Creative Commons, public domain, intellectual property, derivative work, commercial use, attribution, work for hire, fair use, fair dealing, images, graphics, rich media, etc.

1.4 Demonstrate an understanding of best practices for the design and layout of a professional document.

a. Demonstrate knowledge of document specification terminology.

  • Key Terms: resolution, file types (*.txt, *.pdf, *.rtf, *.md, *.jpg, *.png, *.svg, *docx, *.pptx, *.xlsx *.xml, *.html, etc.), document output file sizes, typeface, resizing, aspect ratio, units of measurement (inches, pixels, centimeters), metadata, etc.

b. Define document layout terms and principles.

  • Key Terms: orientation, text justification and alignment, line and paragraph spacing, foreground, background, color, hierarchy (outline), readability spacing, grids, callouts, pull quotes, title, header, block quote, footer, caption, table of contents, index, page size, page orientation, facing pages, column, gutter, margin, etc.

 c. Identify and use common typographic adjustments to create contrast, hierarchy, and enhanced readability.

  •  Key Terms: font (typeface), size, style (bold, italics, underline), color, alignment, tracking (character spacing), leading (line spacing), horizontal scale, line length, serif vs. sans-serif, etc.

d. Recognize the need for embedding fonts.