PDF Production & Preflighting with Acrobat 8 & Enfocus PitStop Pro - Introduction Two Day Training Course

Training Provided by XChange Training UK PDF has made major inroads into the publishing and printing industries in recent years and a good knowledge of how to produce and preflight PDF documents is essential to anybody working on the technical side of document publishing and printing. XChange Training are now offering a course that provides you with precisely that by focussing on two key PDF production and preflighting tools: Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional and Enfocus PitStop Professional 7 Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional is the creative industry standard application for PDF creation, proofing and exchange. A good knowledge of this application and PDF technology in general is essential for anyone working in the modern reprographic, production and print industry. Acrobat 7 Professional added a host of new features suited for print production, including better preflighting, colour separation previews, colour conversion, ink management, trapping presets etc. Enfocus PitStop Professional 7 is the standard tool for editing and preflighting PDF files for print workflows. With Enfocus PitStop Professional you can make manual changes to PDF documents, check the properties of individual elements in a PDF documents, perform highly comprehensive preflights of your documents and with PitStop s Action Lists you can even automate many tedious changes you need made to PDF documents.

PDF Production & Preflighting with Acrobat 8 & Enfocus PitStop Pro - Introduction Two Day Training Course The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.

PDF Production - Applications
Producing PDF documents directly from:
-Adobe InDesign CS & CS2
-QuarkXPress 6 & 7
-Other Applications on Mac and PC
Understanding PDF version numbers and Export... output options

PDF Production - Adobe Distiller
Producting PostScript to Distiller and printing directly to PDF
Adobe Distiller Job Options
Redistilling problem PDF documents

PDF Proofing - Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional
Overprint Preview
Colour separation previews
Colour conversion
Ink management
Editing bitmaps and vectors in Adobe CS

PDF Preflighting - Enfocus PitStop Professional 7
Creating a PDF Preflight Profile
Executing PDF Preflight Profiles and understanding errors and cautions

Modifying PDF documents - Enfocus PitStop Professional 7 & Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional
Editing individual PDF elements
Making global changes to PDF documents
Resizing media and correcting bleed
Writing basic Action Lists

About The Training Provider: XChange Training UK

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