John Deubert's Acumen Training - Engineering classes in PostScript & PDF

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Welcome to the home page of John Deubert's Acumen Training, a training consultancy specializing in engineering classes in PostScript, PDF and XPS.

What Services Does Acumen Training Provide?

Acumen Training offers expert classes in creating, interpreting, and troubleshooting PostScript, PDF, and now XPS files.

You will not find classes better than these or backed up with more experience and expertise. John Deubert has been programming and teaching PostScript since 1984; he has been teaching and working with PDF since 1996. XPS is a new entry in the Acumen Training stable, but John has been working with this format since 2007 and brings to this new subject the perspective and experience gained from more than two decades working with page- and document-description formats.

John is widely considered to be a gifted teacher; his classes are routinely described by students as the best classes they have ever taken. He brings to his classes an unusual combination of technical expertise, printing and graphic industry eperience, and teaching acumen.

Acumen Training's classes are the only ones of their kind anywhere in the world. If you are looking for engineering-grade classes in PostScript, PDF, or XPS this is the place.

Acumen Training’s current curriculum includes the following classes:

XPS Courses (New!)

XPS File Content and Structure
Three days, hands-on

A new hands-on course in constructing and interpreting XPS files. This covers all the topics most important to engineers who will be creating or supporting XPS printing devices or who will be generating XPS files from their own software.

PDF Courses

PDF 1: File Content and Structure Four days, hands-on	A hands-on course in constructing and interpreting PDF files, seen from the perspective of printer engineers and support personnel.
PDF 2: Advanced File Content Four days, hands-on	A follow-on to the first PDF class that completes the coverage of PDF for printed documents, discussing such topics as multibyte text and smooth shading.
Support Engineers' PDF Two days, hands-on	This course is a good, quick introduction to PDF structure for people who need to examine and diagnose troublesome PDF files.

PostScript Courses

PostScript Foundations Five days, hands-on	An in-depth course in PostScript programming, covering the important mechanisms common to all versions of the PostScript language.
Advanced PostScript Four days, hands-on	A Four-day course that examines advanced PostScript features, including forms, patterns, CID fonts, and smooth shading. This class covers all of the important capabilities of PostScript Levels 2 and 3.
Troubleshooting PostScript Three days, hands-on	This course provides field support and other engineers with the knowledge they need to diagnose, isolate, and fix PostScript errors.
Variable Data PostScript Five days, hands-on	A hands-on class in creating variable data documents in PostScript. Covers everything from data stream parsing to setting styled text. Requires the PostScript Foundations course.

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Acumen Training classes are taught in Costa Mesa, California (in the Los Angeles area, near the Santa Ana/John Wayne airport) as well as at corporate sites world-wide.