Acrobat For Designers & Pre-Press Professionals

Short course

Inhouse

£ 395 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Short course

  • Methodology

    Inhouse

  • Location

    London

  • 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.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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2 Exmoor Street, W10 6BD

Start date

On request
Inhouse

Start date

On request

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

Acrobat For Designers & Pre-Press Professionals

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)

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Additional information

Payment options: Harlequin Training at an Adobe & Quark authorised training provider and are registered with the Institute of IT Training.
Students per class: 7

Acrobat For Designers & Pre-Press Professionals

£ 395 + VAT