PDF
2: Advanced File Content
(4 Days, Hands-on)
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course description (PDF)
A second course in interpreting and creating PDF files
PDF 2: Advanced File Content is a four-day, hands-on class in the PDF file format that adds to the set of topics discussed in PDF 1. It discusses a broad range of topics not discussed in detail in the PDF1 class, including multibyte text, linearized PDF, interactive form fields, and smooth shading. This class, like PDF 1, 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 this class (together with PDF 1) with a knowledge of all of the parts of the PDF spec important to printed documents.
Prerequisites
Students must have taken the PDF 1 class or have equivalent knowledge. The student will be assumed to have a good knowledge of the basic structure of a PDF file and have a reasonable memory of the topics covered in the earlier class.
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.
Topics Include:
| - Function dictionaries | - Interactive form fields |
| - Smooth shading | - Linearized PDF |
| - CID (multibyte) fonts | - Object streams |
| - Composite fonts | - Cross reference streams |
| - PDF file references | - Transfer functions |
| - Masked images | - Rendering intents |
| - Optional Content (Layers) | - Marked content |
| - Shape dictionaries | - Digital Signatures |
| - Halftoning | - Filling rules |
| - Line caps & joins | - Print-related annotations |
Hands-on PDF! To enable students to create hand-written PDF files, PDF 2 introduces a unique, special-purpose text editor, Acumen Edit. This software's features allow for easy hands-on creation, examination, and manipulation of PDF code. Acumen Edit runs on Mac OS X and Windows 2000 or later. |
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Pricing, Availability, and On-Site Classes
PDF 2: Advanced File Contents is taught periodically in Costa Mesa, California. See the Acumen Training class schedule for a list of locations, dates and class cost.
This class can also be taught on-site; click here for details.
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