Bespoke PDF Production with Acrobat 9 & PitStop

Key Course Details:

Level:

Introduction to Intermediate

Location:

UK Centres, Online, Onsite

Class, Online, Onsite

Duration:

2 Days (10am-5pm)

Price:

From £1,195 + VAT

Dates:

Dates to suit you

This course can be based around our base outline or part/fully customised according to your level & requirements. Our bespoke Enfocus & PDF Workflows training is offered either Online, Onsite at your offices or at one of the XChange centres in London, Manchester and Glasgow.

Overview Full Outline Location Options Related Courses Client Reviews

Bespoke PDF Production with Acrobat 9 & PitStop
Course Details

PDF has made major inroads into the publishing and printing industries in recent years and a good knowledge of how to produce and preflight PDF documents is essential to anybody working on the technical side of document publishing and printing. XChange Training are now offering a course that provides you with precisely that by focussing on two key PDF production and preflighting tools: Adobe Acrobat Professional and Enfocus PitStop Professional.

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 Professional added a host of new features suited for print production, including:
- Better preflighting
- Colour separation previews
- Colour conversion
- Ink management
- Trapping presets etc.
Enfocus PitStop Professional is the standard tool for editing and preflighting PDF files for print workflows. With Enfocus PitStop Professional you can make manual changes to PDF documents, check the properties of individual elements in a PDF documents, perform highly comprehensive preflights of your documents and with PitStop’s Action Lists you can even automate many tedious changes you need made to PDF documents.

Course Target Audience and delegate prerequisites:
View Full Course Outline
Full Course Outline

The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.
PDF Production - Applications
PDF Production - Adobe Distiller
- Producting PostScript to Distiller and printing directly to PDF
- Adobe Distiller Job Options
- Redistilling problem PDF documents
PDF Proofing - Adobe Acrobat 9 Professional
- Overprint Preview
- Colour separation previews
- Colour conversion
- Ink management
- Editing bitmaps and vectors in Adobe
PDF Preflighting - Enfocus PitStop Professional 9
- Creating a PDF Preflight Profile
- Executing PDF Preflight Profiles and understanding errors and cautions
Modifying PDF documents - Enfocus PitStop Professional 9 & Adobe Acrobat 9 Professional
- Editing individual PDF elements
- Making global changes to PDF documents
- Resizing media and correcting bleed
- Writing basic Action Lists
Training Location Options
Online ↓ London ↓ Manchester ↓ Glasgow ↓ Onsite ↓
This course is offered for your convenience at one of our bespoke training centres in London, Manchester and Glasgow, Remote Online, or Onsite at your offices anywhere in the UK. Just let us know what would work best for you or your team.

Remote Online

Delivered Online to your location

Live online training offers an extremely flexible and convenient way of covering the same content as our bespoke classroom based courses. You will receive professional, certified design training from one of our experienced instructors direct to your screen, offering the perfect solution for those wishing to learn without having to travel.
Click to view Full details of our
Remote Online Training Courses

Central London

5 St John’s Lane, Clerkenwell, EC1M 4BH

St John’s Lane is located in the heart of Clerkenwell close to the junction of Farringdon and Clerkenwell Road. Farringdon tube & train station is just a few minutes away and the training centre can also be accessed from Chancery Lane and Barbican tubes in about 10 minutes. There is also easy direct access by bus from Waterloo (243) and West End (55) with nearby stops.
Click to view Full details of our
London Training Centre

Central Manchester

Piccadilly House, 49 Piccadilly, M1 2AP

Piccadilly House is located in central Manchester directly next to the Piccadilly Gardens transport interchange with excellent bus and tram connections and is easily accessed from Piccadilly train Station (5 mins). Victoria station is also close by (around 10 mins).
Click to view Full details of our
Manchester Training Centre

Central Glasgow

Centrum Business Centre, 38 Queen Street, G1 3DX

The Queen Street training centre is located in central Glasgow within easy walking distance of the 3 local train options of Central Station, Queen Street and Argyle Street offering excellent transport connections.
Click to view Full details of our
Glasgow Training Centre

Onsite

Onsite at your Offices/Premises

If you have the required set up and would prefer to have the training at your location we will be able to deliver the same session onsite at your premises as in our training centres. This will provide you with the same tailored training but without the need to travel and less disruption to you or your teams work schedule.
Click to view Full details of
Onsite Training
Related Courses

Below are related bespoke courses for alternative tailored training options.

Bespoke Enfocus & PDF Workflows Training Courses
Enfocus PitStop Professional - Introduction training course PDF Production & Preflighting with Acrobat X1 & Enfocus PitStop Pro - 2 Day Introduction Using Enfocus products to create automated prelighting workflows Enfocus PitStop Server for automated preflighting training course Creating Enfocus PitStop Professional Action Lists (bespoke) training course
Bespoke Adobe Acrobat XI Training Courses
Acrobat Professional XI - 1 Day Introduction training Acrobat Professional XI - 1 Day Advanced training
Client Reviews

''Trainer was very friendly, knowledgeable and professional. Supply of high quality reference book for each trainee was added bonus.''
Thomas Booth, BAE Systems, Captivate - 2 Day Introduction
''Trainer was extremely well prepared and thought out our training needs well. Moved at a great pace, not too slow but at the same time willing to stop and take a breather if needed.''
Murray Ziervogel, BGL Group, Adobe Animate - One Day Advanced
''Fantastic instructor. This has genuinely been the best training program I've ever been on!''
Matt Beveridge, Iris Worldwide, Maxon Cinema 4D - 2 Day Introduction
''I can’t thank you enough. The benefit from the training was phenomenal. The textbook handout is something I will be referring back to I'm sure.''
Dawn Newman, Olympic Delivery Authority, Illustrator - 2 Day Introduction
''Great one to one training which was really specific and which I can implement immediately to my everyday workload as soon as I get back in to the office!''
Brunella Capozzi, Disney, Photoshop - 2 Day Bespoke
''Good pace. Covered everything I wanted to know. ''
James Missenden, Homes For Haringey, Microsoft Visio - 1 Day Introduction
''Fantastic two day course on InDesign, well worth doing. Staff very friendly. 10 out of 10''
Daniel Kosta, Icon Productions, InDesign - 2 Day Introduction
''The trainer was very good indeed. We got a lot out of the experience and will book again for more training in the future.''
Neil Cleverley, TTS Group, Illustrator - 2 Day Migration
''This was a very good training course. It was well paced and clearly presented. The mix between instruction and practice was well balanced. I have learnt a huge amount and am looking forward to consolidating skills.''
Gary Morris, University of Leeds, Articulate Storyline - 2 Day Introduction
''The one-to-one basis certainly cleared a lot of the problems encounted with the mystery of Enfocus PitStop Professional.''
Keith Dandridge, Information Press, PitStop Pro - 1 Day Introduction

Frequently Asked Questions:

What dates are available for this course?

As a bespoke course the date arrangement is based around your requirements and availability in our schedule. With your guide of when you are looking for the training we will advise suitable date options ahead of finalising the planned date(s).

Can the content be tailored to my requirements?

Yes we are flexible about tailoring content and can adapt to be fully based on your requirements, a mixture of content from different levels of our base courses or a base outline with some additional focus areas.

Can this course be delivered live online?

Yes we can provide the same bespoke course as a live online session connecting to you or your group with either Zoom or Microsoft Teams if preferred.

What is the cost to deliver the course onsite?

We are equally able to deliver our bespoke training onsite at your premises and the cost to deliver this is the same structure as classroom with the addition of basic expenses depending on your location. Onsite courses in and around London, Manchester and Glasgow are usually without additional costs.

Can the course include my work samples?

It is often possible to review and include consideration towards sample files however the main course content is usually structured around prepared examples which are best suited to the planned content and structure of teaching the required skills in the best format.