11 Things Every Newspaper Should Know About PDFs

A practical, nuts-and-bolts look at working with PDFs in a production environment.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. Topics include: Checking out the PDF Digging deeper with the Output Preview panel Simple fixes with the TouchUp tools Converting colors Managing transparency Working with fonts Preflighting PDFs Repairing PDFs with Photoshop and Illustrator Exporting vs. printing and distilling