Lynda – 11 Things Every Newspaper Should Know About PDFs Free Download

Lynda – 11 Things Every Newspaper Should Know About PDFs Free Download

Lynda – 11 Things Every Newspaper Should Know About PDFs
After years of watching colleagues and clients struggle with PDFs, Russell Viers was inspired to create this course, which takes a practical, nuts-and-bolts look at working with PDFs in a production environment. In a series of quick lessons, Russell shows how to look at a PDF and understand what’s going on, diagnose potential problems, and fix those problems. Along the way, get valuable tips for preflighting, converting colors, editing PDFs in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, and much more.
  • Introduction
  • 1. Checking Out the PDF
  • 2. Digging Deeper with Output Preview
  • 3. Simple Fixes with the TouchUp Tools
  • 4. Converting Colors
  • 5. Managing Transparency
  • 6. What’s Going on with Fonts?
  • 7. Preflighting PDFs
  • 8. When to Use Photoshop as a PDF Repair Tool
  • 9. Using Illustrator as a PDF Repair Tool
  • 10. Exporting vs. Printing and Distilling
  • 11. Have You Metadata?