PDF
1: File Content and Structure
(4 Days, Hands-on)
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course description (PDF)
A course in interpreting and creating PDF files
PDF
1: File Content & Structure is a four-day, hands-on,
technical introduction to PDF file format and structure. It discusses
in detail
the structure and contents of a PDF file. The class emphasizes those
parts of the PDF specification most important to printer engineers
and support personel. It will also be an important introduction
for software
engineers who will be directly generating PDF.
Course Objective
Students
will leave class knowing how to interpret the contents of a PDF file.
Printer engineers will know what their printing devices must
pay attention to when printing PDF files directly. Software engineers
will be able to generate PDF files from within their own software.
Prerequisites
A good technical background, including experience with a professional programming language. PostScript experience (the PostScript Foundations course or its equivalent) will be very helpful, since PostScript and PDF share an imaging model and have many concepts in common.
Audience
Engineers and advanced support personnel who need to understand the PDF file format. The course assumes you are either working with a printing device that consumes PDF or that you are a software engineer faced with generating PDF.
Course
Outline
Day 1
| - PDF Data Types |
| - PDF Objects |
| - PDF file format |
| - The Page Tree |
| - Content streams |
| - Simple drawing |
| - Introduction to PDF color |
| - Drawing text |
| - Coordinate transforms |
| - Transforming text |
Day 2
| - Text rendering modes |
| - Text parameter operators |
| - Graphics state stack |
| - Bezier Curves |
| - Clippng paths |
| - Filters |
Day 3
| - Color and color spaces |
| - Introduction to function dictionaries |
| - Pattern fills |
| - Image XObjects |
| - Form XObjects |
| - Transparency |
Day 4
| - Annotations |
| - PDF font structure |
| - Character encoding |
| - Embedding fonts |
| - Type 3 fonts |
| - PDF standards: PDF/X, PDF/A, etc. |
Hands-on PDF! To enable students to create hand-written PDF files, PDF 1 uses a unique, special-purpose text editor, Acumen Editor. This software's features allow for easy hands-on creation, examination, and manipulation of PDF code. Acumen Editor runs on Mac OS X 10.3 or later and Windows 2000 or later. |
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Pricing & Availability
See class schedule for a list of locations, dates and class cost.
On-Site Classes
All Acumen
Training classes can be taught on your corporate site. Click here for
details.
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