Acrobat for Designers & Pre-press Professionals

Overview
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.

Prerequisites
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.

Course Content About Acrobat

* A brief history
* What does a PDF file consist of?
* What is PostScript - a little history.
* System Requirements

Acrobat 7.0 Product Family

* Acrobat Standard/Professional
* Acrobat (pdf editor)
* Adobe Reader
* Adobe PDF Printer, Acrobat Distiller
* Acrobat Catalogue
* 3rd Party Plug-ins. AdFst ,
* Pitstop (briefly)

Using the Help Files and How To Pane

* The work area, Preferences, Toolbars and Buttons
* Navigation Pane, Zooming and Scrolling
* Creating Postscript and PDF Files on Mac/Windows from QuarkXPress and Adobe Creative Suite.
* What is Acrobat Distiller?
* PDF Settings (Job Options) ISO Standards PDF/X, Watched Folders
* Font locations

Working with PDF files

* Combining multiple pdfs
* Adding/deleting pages

Preflighting

* Creating and running preflight profiles
* PDF/X Validation
* Layers
* Output previews, separations & soft proofing
* Transparency issues
* Trap presets, convert colours, ink manager, printers marks, cropping, fixing hairlines, optimising, JDF job definitions. Advanced printing controls

Editing PDF files

* Touchup text tool, Touchup Object tool with Photoshop and Illustrator
* Exporting Images and Text, Exporting/saving pdfs in other formats.
* PDF Security
* Setting/Changing Document Security
* Permissions and Passwords

Questions and Answers