Fundamentals of Adobe Acrobat 8.0: Professional for Print Production

Objectives

To provide Graphic Designers and Pre-Press Professionals with the technical requirements and skills needed for creating PDFs for High End Commercial Litho and Digital Printing.


Pre-requisites:

A knowledge of the chosen operating system (Mac OSX or Windows) and the source application from which PDF files will be created e.g. Microsoft Word, Quark XPress, Adobe InDesign etc.


Course Includes:

A comprehensive set of reference notes covering course topics, follow-up telephone support and, for training on Transmedia premises, lunch and refreshments.


Course Outline


Creating PDF from postscript and Distiller and from Adoe Creative Suite Applications and Quark Xpress
What is Distiller


· PDF/X Standards
· PDF/X-4
· Pass4PPress and ECI specifications
· Distiller Presets
· Editing and managing PDF setting files
· Setting up watched folders





Page Box


· Geometry
· Cropping and enlarging pages
· Overprint preview
· Colour managements
· Page display options





Preview


· Output preview
· Simulation Preview
· Content Control
· Ink Value
· Maximum ink density and overprinting/rich black control





Colour conversion


· Convert from one colour space to another, eg rgb to cmyk



Preflighting


· Using, managing and editing Preflight Profiles to detect and fix common output problems







Fixing Hairlines

Fixing problems with font and vector stroke weights

Ink Manger


· Remap colours from Pantone to CMYK and combine miltiple Pantone inks within your file





Transparency flattening




· Common RIP/Rendering problems with transparency flattening





PDF Optimiser




· Versioning
· Font expraction
· Image downsampling and data scrubbing



Commenting Tools for Proofreading and review

JDF workflow Overview

PDF corrections


· Using the Touchup Text and Touchup Object tools for simple orrectons to type and images







Third Party Industrial plug-ins ie Enfocus Pitstop (time permitting)

Questions and Answers