Proofreading PDFs: A Complete Guide for Editors
Working efficiently with PDFs is an essential skill for today’s editorial professionals. This freshly updated short course shows you how to easily access and apply the mark-up tools using Adobe Acrobat's new interface.
You will gain the confidence to mark up any PDF, customise your mark-ups, manage your comments and save time by applying keyboard shortcuts and working more smartly. Featuring extensive screenshots and worked examples, this module is essential for anyone who marks up or works with PDFs.
Course content
- Interface, menus, tools and navigation
- Marking up a PDF
- Working efficiently
- Managing comments
e-learning modules are optimised for desktop and laptop devices and not tablets and smartphones.
Learning outcomes
At the end of this module you will be able to:
- Mark up PDFs using the Adobe Acrobat mark-up tools
- Customise the mark-ups
- Use Acrobat's specific keyboard shortcuts
- Manage comments efficiently
How does the course work?
Proofreading PDFs: A Complete Guide for Editors has four units. Across the units there are exercises, example answers, and quizzes for self-assessment. Completion of the final exercise leads to your completion certificate being issued.
About the author(s)
Christina Thomas has previously developed and delivered courses for the PTC and the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP), and bespoke courses for clients including Westminster City Council and the Singapore Book Council.
She developed the PTC’s Introduction to Editorial Skills, Progress in Editorial Skills and Editorial Skills for Business (now Editorial Skills for All), and was a tutor on the distance learning course Basic Proofreading (now Essential Proofreading) for 10 years.
Her editorial experience includes traditional book publishing, websites and corporate literature, consultancy on house style documents and devising editorial tests. She is author of the CIEP guide Your House Style.
Since 1999, Sarah Sodhi has proofed, tagged, bound, corrected, edited, managed, commissioned, subbed, scheduled, estimated and produced a great deal of content – from interactive, multi-media resources to marketing leaflets, and monthly magazines to 900-page medical tomes.
Starting her career at a small medical publisher in Oxford, she then moved into the public sector to work for an adult education charity. Now she edits and manages digital and print resources for primary, secondary and adult education publishers.
Sarah is the tutor of the PTC’s Editorial Project Management and How to Mark Up PDFs with Adobe Acrobat, and one of a team of tutors for Introduction to Editorial Skills and Progress in Editorial Skills.
This e-learning module was developed with the support of the Unwin Charitable Trust.
Enrolment reopens 15 September
We are moving to a new learning platform. Register your interest and we will let you know as soon as this course is available again.
Five to seven hours with eight months access to the module.
PTC e-learning modules are concentrated, online courses that focus on specialist topics relevant to publishing working life. They are designed to build on a foundation of existing skills and experience.