Adobe PDF files have several purposes in publishing: as pre-press files for printing, for electronic distribution, for creating files that are accessible to screen readers and for interactive files, including sound and movie files.
This course covers the creation of PDFs from a variety of different software packages. You will learn about:
- document properties
- production options
- font issues, interactive PDFs
- and much more.
By the end of the two days, you’ll know how to create PDFs for anything from proofing to interactive web content.
Programme
- What are PDF files and how are they used in publishing?
- Adobe Acrobat and PDF versions
- Creating PDF files from InDesign, QuarkXPress, Word, Excel, Illustrator, Photoshop, scans and websites
- Checking PDF files
- Document properties
- print production options
- Preferences for conversion of PDF files
- Font issues with PDF files
- Embedding and subsetting fonts
- Local fonts
- Multiple master fonts
- CID fonts
- Modifying text, pages and images in PDF files
- Extracting images and converting PDF files to other formats
- Print production
- Production checking
- Altering PDF files
- Previewing for ink and separations
- Creating articles
- Creating bookmarks and links
- Interactivity in PDF files
- Buttons
- Form fields
- Adding sound and movies to files
- Using Acrobat for proofing
- Adding, summarising and filtering comments
- Sharing comments as FDF files
- Scanning to convert archived materials to PDF
- Scanning settings
- Searching for and correcting ‘suspects’
- Security
- Password security practised
- Other security demonstrated