Acrobat For Designers & Pre-Press Professionals
Short course
Inhouse
Description
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Type
Short course
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Methodology
Inhouse
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Location
London
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Duration
1 Day
A one-day course designed for those who need to produce high quality pdfs for artwork delivery for Digital and Litho Printing from applications such as QuarkXPress and Adobe Creative Suite. Distiller settings, PDF/X and PDF Colour management will be discussed in detail.
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About this course
A working knowledge of the chosen computer operating system (Mac or Windows on PC), and knowledge of the source application from which Acrobat PDFs will be generated.
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Subjects
- Acrobat
Course programme
What is Distiller
• PDF/X Standards, PDF/X-4, Pass4Press and ECI specifications.
• Distiller Presets and editing and managing PDF setting files covered in depth
• Setting up watched folders
Page box geometry, cropping and enlarging pages overprint preview, colour management and page display options
Output preview. Simulation preview, content control, ink value, maximum ink density and overprinting/rich black control
Preflighting
Using, managing and editing Preflight Profiles to detect and fix common output problems
Colour conversion
Convert from one colour space to another e.g. RGB to CMYK
Ink manager
Re-map colours from Pantone to CMYK and combine multiple Pantone inks within your file
Fixing Hairlines. Fixing problems with font and vector stroke weights
Transparency flattening
Common RIP/Rendering problems with transparency flattening
PDF Optimiser
Versioning, font extraction, image down-sampling and data scrubbing.
Commenting Tools for Proofreading and review
JDF Workflow Overview
PDF corrections
Using the Touchup Text and Touchup Object tools for simple corrections to type and images
Third Party Industrial plug-ins i.e. Enfocus Pitstop (time permitting)
Questions and Answers
Additional information
Students per class: 7
Acrobat For Designers & Pre-Press Professionals