Program Hours:

Workhop 1: Making PDF's Work

9:00 am to 12:00 pm

Workhop 2: Ditital Files 101

1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Learn valuable tips, techniques and shortcuts that will help you streamline your PDF workflow. This workshop gives you the answers to your questions about how to use Acrobat, Pitstop, Quite Imposing and CrakerJack for real world production tasks.

- Enfocus Pitstop is the leading tool for editing and preparing PDF files. We will take in in-depth look at the capabilities of Pitstop and then focus on how to use Pitstop for common prepress functions such as checking and fixing PDF files, as well as how to automate these functions.

- QuiteEmposing the only way to easily impose PDF files without leaving Acrobat! From simple booklets, complex layouts, and step & repeat we will take a close look at making it work.

  • New features of Acrobat 6.0

  • Creating PDF files that output

  • Preflighting common problems

  • Trapping/separating colors for press

  • Font issues and solutions

  • Fixing problems using plug-in

Understanding digital files when pricing and preflighting a job is essential. When accepting files from your customer you need to understand how that file will be reproduced and how much time to budget to get it to print. This workshop will work with Owners, Sales Reps, and CSR’s in an easy to understand format to help them ask the right questions and successfully price, preflight, and schedule digital jobs.

• Identifying the key issues affecting time/cost of file preparation

• What to look for when preflighting digital files

• How to make digital files more profitable

• How to accept digital files

   - Web, Email, Disk

• Understanding Fonts, (Postscript vs. TrueType)

• File formats, (EPS, Tiff, JPEG, PDF)

• Identifying the digital elements of a digital file

   - One, two, and four color file preparation

   - Understanding trapping and why the need to charge for it

   - Vector art vs. Bitmap and how it effects pricing

   - What goes into Scanning and how to price it

- How to budget time for basic page layout