Event Description
Using PDF mark-up effectively – Saturday 26 March & Tuesday 29 March 2022
Date: Saturday 26 March & Tuesday 29 March 2022
Time: 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm AEDT Saturday and Q&A 7:00 to 8:00pm AEDT on the following Tuesday
Cost: Members & reciprocal/affiliate organisations (IPEd, CIEP, Editors Canada, PEG, Writers Vic., ANZSI & ATSC) $105; non-members $157.50; Student members $63
Venue: Online via Zoom; Zoom links for both sessions will be sent in the confirmation booking email immediately upon the completion of registration
LOCAL START TIMES
NZ: 3:00pm NZDT; 9:00pm NZDT
NORFOLK ISLAND: 2:00pm NFT; 8:00pm NFT
TAS/ACT/VIC/NSW: 1:00pm AEDT; 7:00pm AEDT
SA: 12:30pm ACDT; 6:30pm ACDT
QLD: 12:00pm AEST; 6:00pm AEST
NT: 11:30am ACST; 5:30pm ACST
WA: 10:00am AWST; 4:00pm AWST
Bookings Close: 5pm AEDT, Thursday 17 March 2022
In many branches of publishing, hard-copy mark-up is starting to become the exception rather than the norm. This course will teach you how to master on-screen mark-up, using the Comment tools in Adobe Acrobat, whether you’re annotating PDFs yourself or taking in changes from somebody else’s marked-up PDF.
In this workshop, aimed at beginner to mid-level PDF users, you will receive a 2½-hour guided introduction to the Acrobat functions most commonly used in proofing, including the mark-up tools and filtering options. You will also be given tips on best practice, including:
- using keyboard shortcuts,
- minimising the number of comments in a document,
- making sure corrections are easily detected and unambiguous,
- distinguishing instructional text from replacement text.
There will be interactive activities, where we mark up some sample text and images as a group, and where we discuss a pre-prepared piece of marked-up copy. Three days after the main session, we will reconvene to share our experiences in a 1-hour Q&A session.
Prerequisites: a working internet connection and a computer running the latest version of Acrobat Reader or the full Adobe Acrobat plus the free Zoom app. (NB: The free Acrobat Reader application includes full access to the on-screen mark-up tools; you no longer need Acrobat Pro for this.)
Feedback from previous courses
‘A really useful and informative workshop.’
‘Excellent insights and tips for a professional approach to pdf editing.’
Presenter
Kevin O’Brien is an editor with 20 years of professional experience, at companies including LexisNexis (London), Mainstream Publishing (Edinburgh), Penguin Random House (Sydney) and Scribe Publications (Melbourne). He is currently managing editor at Affirm Press, Melbourne. He teaches on-screen editing and proofreading skills for a range of organisations, including IPEd, the University of Sydney, UTS, and individual publishing houses.
This event WILL NOT be recorded
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