Acrobat Professional 8 training for print professionals

Training Provided by XChange Training UK Adobe Acrobat Professional 8 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 8 has added many new advanced features to this key product that will help you guarantee quality output on every job. XChangeTraining offer a core training course in Acrobat Acrobat Professional 8 for print professionals. The course includes everything you need to both create and edit high quality, print-ready PDF files using Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional and Acrobat Distiller 8. Standards features high on the list with the PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3 and draft PDF/X-4 specifications. Acrobat Professional 8 added a host of new features including better preflighting and improved fix-ups, preflight droplets, colour separation previews, colour conversion on both page and object level, ink management, JDF, 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.

Acrobat Professional 8 training for print professionals Overview
-The Acrobat Family: Professional, Standard, Elements, and Adobe Reader
-Changes and additions to Acrobat 8 Professional
-Overview of Acrobat 8's layout and tools

PDF Creation and Adobe Acrobat Distiller
-Acrobat's methods for creating PDFs
-Creating a PDF from the Print dialog...
-Understanding Distiller's settings
-PDF ISO standards including PDF/X

Preflighting PDFs
-Acrobat 8's preflighting tools
-Creating and running a Preflight Profile
- Examining the new preflight fix-ups
-Sharing profiles with others
-PDF/X validation
-Creating Preflight Droplets

Modifying PDFs with Acrobat 8
-Trap Presets
-Output Previews and soft proofs
-Transparency flattening in PDFs
-Changing colours with Convert Colours...
-Creating ink aliases
-Using the Ink Manager
-Adding Printer Marks
-Fixing Hairlines
-Adding JDF information to a job
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Optimising PDFs
-Reduce File size...
-PDF Optimiser...
-'Refrying' PDF files

TouchUp PDFs
-Using the editing tools
- importing images into Acrobat
- image rotation and cropping
-Editing with Creative Suite applications (Photoshop and Illustrator)
-Saving changes to PDFs
-Is PitStop necessary?

Printing from Acrobat 8 Professional
-Acrobat's advanced printing functions

Other Acrobat 8 features
-Acrobat's Preferences Pane
-Batch Processing...
-Other areas...

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