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

What Services Does Acumen Provide?

Acumen Training offers expert classes in programming and troubleshooting PostScript and in interpreting and creating PDF.

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. He is widely considered to be a gifted teacher; his classes are routinely described by students as the best classes they have ever taken.

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

Acumen Training’s current curriculum includes the following classes:

PDF Classes

PDF 1: File Content and Structure Four days, hands-on	A hands-on course in constructing and interpreting PDF files for printed documents.
PDF 2: Advanced File Content Four days, hands-on	This follow-on to the first PDF class completes the coverage of PDF for printed documents.
Support Engineers' PDF Three 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 Classes

PostScript Foundations Five days, hands-on Adobe authorized	An in-depth course in PostScript programming, covering the important mechanisms common to all versions of the PostScript language.
Troubleshooting PostScript Three days, hands-on	Troubleshooting PostScript provides field support and other engineers with the knowledge they need to diagnose and isolate 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.
Advanced PostScript Four days, hands-on Adobe authorized	A Four-day course that examines advanced LanguageLevel 2 features, including forms, patterns, CID fonts, and smooth shading. This class covers all of the important capabilities of LanguageLevels 2 and 3.

The PostScript and PDF file format classes are taught in Costa Mesa, California (near the Santa Ana/John Wayne airport) as well as at corporate sites world-wide.

Acumen Training is John Deubert, a programmer and instructor of twenty years’ experience in the PostScript language. The PostScript classes have long been Adobe’s only authorized PostScript classes.

Click here for information on John’s book, Acrobat 8 Visual Quickstart Guide, available now at Amazon.com.

Click here for information on John’s book, Extending Acrobat Forms with JavaScript

Click here for information on John’s book, Creating Adobe Acrobat Forms.