Welcome
Welcome to the home page of John Deubert's Acumen Training, a training consultancy specializing in engineering classes and consulting in PostScript and PDF.
What Services Does Acumen Training Provide?
Acumen Training offers three kinds of services and products:
- Expert classes in creating, interpreting, and troubleshooting PostScript and PDF.
- PostScript- and PDF-related consulting.
- QEDGuides, PDF-based e-books on technical topics in PostScript, PDF, and advanced Acrobat.
Training
John teaches a variety of engineering-level classes on PostScript and PDF. The current curriculum consists of:
- PostScript Foundations
- Advanced PostScript
- PDF 1
- PDF 2
- Troubleshooting PostScript
- Support Engineers' PDF
Acumen Training classes are most often taught on customers' sites world-wide, but are also offered more-or-less quarterly in Southern California. Click here for a class schedule or here for information on on-site classes.
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 was one of AdobeÕs earliest employees); he has been teaching and working with PDF since 1996.
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 experience, 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 or PDF, this is the place.
Click here for detailed course descriptions.
Consulting
John offers his expertise to people who are engaged in projects using PostScript or PDF. Clients can engage John for:
- Hourly telephone support
- Programming assistance
- Project planning and implementation
Click here for more information on JohnÕs consulting service.
QED Guides
Acumen Training proudly announces the first of its PDF-based e-books, Beginning JavaScript for Adobe Acrobat. You will learn the basics of JavaScript programming while adding impressive features to your Acrobat Forms. No programming experience is needed to use this book.
Click here for more information.
Copyright © 2012 John Deubert
What's New?
Beginning JavaScript for Adobe Acrobat released
Feb 22, 2012
Acumen Training has released the first of its QEDGuides, e-books in PDF format on a variety of technical topics for the PostScript, PDF, and Acrobat world.
This first e-book is a non-programmer's introduction to using JavaScript in Adobe Acrobat. Learn how to program in JavaScript while adding useful functionality to your Acrobat forms!
Go here for details.
New Website Design
Feb 22, 2012
You may have noticed that the Acumen Training website has been redesigned and spiffed up. Still a simple, easily navigable layout, but it looks a bit better. I think, anyway.
The site's transformation is still fresh, so you may find some oddness as you go through the pages. Bear with me; it won't take long to complete the conversion.