Proofreading PDFs

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Ever wondered how to import comments from another PDF with a single click, filter your changes to easily find your queries, or help your designer apply your changes automatically? Look no further! Packed with ideas to save you time and make your life easier, this course provides practical guidance, demonstrating the full potential of Adobe Acrobat’s mark-up tools and giving you tips to instantly improve your working practices. We will introduce good practice principles to help you work quickly, neatly and efficiently, and enable your design team to easily interpret, manage and implement your changes.

Designed to take you from novice to power-user, the course promotes active learning, using a blended approach of step-by-step demonstrations with opportunities to practise your new skills, ask advice during the session and check your understanding with summary quizzes. After the session, you will have access to handy summary sheets of the key skills you have learned.

Who is it for?

Anyone needing to mark up PDFs
Those in editorial and non-editorial roles
In-house and freelance editors and proofreaders
New starters and experienced staff

What will you achieve?

A full understanding of which Adobe Acrobat Commenting tools are best to use and what to use them for
How to decide the best method of mark-up to work quickly, neatly and efficiently
How to customize the appearance of mark-ups and toolbars
How to import bespoke stamps and recreate BSI mark-up on-screen
How to manage mark-ups to improve productivity

Programme

Mark-up principles for best practice
Adobe Acrobat mark-up tools – what to use and how
Customising your tools and toolbars
When and how to use the Stamps tool to create BSI proofreading symbols on-screen
Easy wins for efficient working
Managing your mark-up

How the course is delivered

PDF Mark-up consists of two x 1.5 hour units plus break.

We strongly recommend you complete this course with two screens, unless you have a large monitor. This will enable you to watch the demonstrations while you follow along on your own screen. You will need access to a computer or laptop with a camera and microphone and with either Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (which is free) or Adobe Acrobat Professional installed. Please check that you have the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader.

You will need to activate a free Zoom account to join the course. This takes two minutes and does not require any payment. It is purely for administrative purposes.

Any information to be completed beforehand will be sent via email.

Accessibility

Please contact us at courses@publishingtrainingcentre.co.uk with any accessibility or special requirements, for example having in-session captions or the learning materials sent to you in advance.

If you have any concerns about technical requirements or access please contact us on courses@publishingtrainingcentre.co.uk or telephone (+44) 020 8874 2718.

Delegate feedback

“Sarah was very friendly, enthusiastic and engaging. I enjoyed the course and wouldn't suggest any improvements. I've learned extra tips to use in my job and improve the quality of my markups.” Witherby Publishing Group delegate

“I really enjoyed the course! The extensive programme and content was fantastic and the hands-on PDF markup tasks really helped the participants apply the techniques that Sarah covered.” Freelance Project Manager

“Sarah did a great job. The info was concise and the mini quizzes were a clever tool to help remember key points. I am much clearer about how to go about editing PDF proofs.” Freelance Editor, Writer and Designer, Word Works

“I have a much clearer understanding of how to better (and more efficiently) use Adobe in my work. The course was fast-paced, but that worked for me.” Freelance Proofreader

“I have a much stronger understanding of the subject, which I can put to use immediately.” The O’Brien Press delegate

“The course was engaging and teaching style relaxed but informative. Exercises well devised. The summary notes, and supply of BSI marks as a PDF will be helpful. I’m confident that I am already using PDF mark-up quite well. The functions in drawing tools were helpful and I will use those instead of highlight and note for layout changes. Also learnt about importing corrections from another pdf and how to sort and filter the comments list. Interesting to learn that BSI marks (as stamps) are quite fiddly to use.” Journals Managing Editor, Edinburgh University Press

'This was a really useful training session … There were quite a few handy tools I didn’t know about and there’s lots I can take back to my work/team that will really help standardise our processes. (And I had no idea about the feature that allows you to import text changes into InDesign … that might be a gamechanger!)' – Hachette delegate

About the tutor(s)

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, from monthly magazines to 900-page medical tomes.

Starting her career at a small medical publisher in Oxford, Sarah produced medical textbooks, journals and a bi-monthly magazine. She then moved into the public sector to work for an adult education charity, introducing formal scheduling procedures, progress-chasing systems and detailed budgets. After this, she immersed herself in the education sector, editing and managing digital and print resources for primary, secondary and adult education publishers.

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Tuesday, 07 June 2022

Tuesday, 20 September 2022

Monday, 05 December 2022

£150+VAT

A number of discounts are available

Course format

Virtual classroom
9.00am to 12.30pm
Two x 1.5 hour sessions plus break

A number of discounts are available

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