Harlequin Training

About Acrobat

• A brief history
• What does a PDF file consist of?
• What is PostScript™ – a little history.
• System Requirements

Acrobat 7.0 Product Family

• Acrobat Standard/Professional
• Acrobat (pdf editor)
• Adobe Reader
• Adobe PDF Printer, Acrobat Distiller
• Acrobat Catalogue
• 3rd Party Plug-ins. AdF@st™,
• 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 QuarkXPress 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, fixing 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