The graphic chain

• Roles and tasks of each stakeholder of the graphic chain

Basics notions

• Color & Color Management
• Printing
• Proofing
• Separations – screening – dot gain
• Knock-out, overprint, trapping

File formats

• Native formats
• PDF format: versions, standards
• Image formats
• Recommendations for use

PDF format

• Advantages and disadvantages of PDF
• The different versions of PDF
• PDF/X standards
• GWG quality standards

PDF creation

• Recommended methods for PDF creation
  • Distiller settings
  • Use and setting of Adobe PDF virtual printer
  • PDF creation from Adobe Creative Cloud applications
  • Other PDF creation methods (especially Connect You)

Enfocus Connect You

• Set up connectors
  • Preflight settings
  • Delivery settings
  • Connectors design
  • Creative Cloud integration
• Connectors use
  • from existing files (convert)
  • directly from Creative Cloud

Adobe Acrobat Professional

• Edit PDF file
  • Acrobat interface and preferences
  • Edit PDF documents: insert, extract, replace and crop of pages, thumbnails
  • Text modification
  • Correction and modification with Acrobat, Illustrator/ Photoshop and with PitStop plugin
  • Text and images extract from PDF
• Verify and validate PDF documents
  • Prepress and printing, PDF workflow
  • “ Prepress ” menu
  • Output Preview
  • Preflight panel

Enfocus PitStop Professional

• PitStop Pro tools
  • Interface and preferences
  • Color settings
  • PDF custom display
• Preflight profile
  • Preflight profile: creation and working principle
  • Preflight report description
• ” last minute ” corrections
  • Inspector and its tools
  • Global changes, page layout
• Action lists
  • Edit and principle
  • Import and export “ .eal ” files
  • Combination of profile and action list

Enfocus PitStop Server

• Creation and setup of hot folder
  • Importing profiles and action lists from PitStop Professional
  • Correction workflow and corrections

Enfocus Switch

Design, test and modify flows

• flow designer interface
• modules connection
• modules setting

Detailed description, setting and implementation

• basic elements (folders, connectors, hierarchy, generic application)
• tools (compression, pause, rename, route, sort, trash)
• communication (FTP send and receive, mail send and receive)
• processing (setting of external applications)
  • Acrobat, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, XPress, PitStop Server,…

Implementation of advanced routing techniques and app control

• use of naming convention
• use of variables
• use of metadata
• use of database / ODBC link

Interaction with Switch Client

• user rights management
• jobs submit
• checkpoint
• use of metadata and interaction with client