Event Description
Using PDF mark-up effectively with Kevin O'Brien (series 2) - Saturday 1 May & Thursday 6 May 2021
Dates: Saturday 1 May & Thursday 6 May 2021 (must attend both sessions)
Time: 1:00 to 3:30 pm AEST (Saturday 1 May); 7:00 to 8:00pm AEST (Thursday 6 May)
LOCAL START TIMES:
NZ: 3:00pm NZST
NORFOLK ISLAND: 2:00pm NFT
NSW/Vic/Tas/ACT/Qld: 1:00pm AEST
SA/NT: 12:30pm ACST
WA: 11:00am AWST
Cost: IPEd Members AUD105; student members AUD63; Non-members AUD157.50; Affiliate members (Writers Vic, ANZSI & ATSC) AUD105 NOTE: Cost covers both sessions
Venue: Online via Zoom meetings. Details are in the confirmation email.
BOOKINGS CLOSE: COB Thursday 15 April 2021
Please note that this workshop is limited to 20 participants. Bookings open on 25 February 2021 for members of Editors Victoria and on 4 March 2021 for members of other branches. If these courses are full, you can request to be added to the waiting list by emailing edvic.admin@iped-editors.org. We will notify you if a place becomes available.
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). From March, he will be taking up the role of 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.
Description
With many of us working at home, and with many offices either remaining closed or running with reduced staff, 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. Five 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 Acrobat Reader or the full Adobe Acrobat plus the free Zoom app. (NB: The free Acrobat Reader application now includes full access to the on-screen mark-up tools; you no longer need Acrobat Pro for this.)
This workshop WILL NOT be recorded.