Elstree Film Studios - Training Courses - Adobe Acrobat Training Courses
Adobe Acrobat 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 has added many new advanced features to this key product that will help you guarantee quality output on every job.
21newmedia offer a core training course in Acrobat Acrobat Professional for print professionals. The course includes everything you need to both create and edit high quality, print-ready PDF files using Adobe Acrobat Professional and Acrobat Distiller.
Acrobat Professional added a host of new features including better preflighting, preflight droplets, colour separation previews, colour conversion, ink management, trapping presets, JDF, adding printer marks and more, so whether you have been using a previous version of this software or you are complete beginner, this course content will satisfy your workflow needs and get you proficient with this essential modern publishing tool.
This is an ideal 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.
Duration: 1 day.
Location: 21st Century New Media Ltd, Elstree Film Studios, Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD6 1JG. [
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Times: 10.00am to 4.30pm. For security reasons, further details are only provided upon booking.
Software Versions: All of our Adobe courses include lessons generic to CS3, CS4 and CS5 versions of the Adobe suite: whichever version you use is covered in detail. Our Apple training courses utilise Final Cut Studio HD (also known of as version 3 or FCS 2009).
Equipment: Our fully featured training room includes six top-of-the-range iMac computers configured to work in both Macintosh (OSX) and PC (Windows) modes, ensuring you the maximum familiarity with your chosen operating system.
Accommodation: Details of local accomodation can be found
here.
Further assistance: Our
FAQ help page contains the answers to many popular questions. Alternatively please call
0844 844 2428 to arrange to speak to our training manager.
COURSE CONTENT
Adobe Acrobat
- About Acrobat
- A brief history
- What does a PDF file consist of?
- What is PostScriptTM_ a little history
- System Requirements
Acrobat Product Family
- Acrobat Standard/Professional
- Acrobat (pdf editor)
- Adobe Reader
- Adobe PDF Printer, Acrobat Distiller
- Acrobat Catalogue
- 3rd Party Plugins. AdF@stTM
- 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 Quark Xpress 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, fixed 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
