Proofreading PDFs: A complete guide for editors
Working efficiently with PDFs is an essential skill for today’s editorial professionals. Save valuable time and improve your practices by learning which of Adobe Acrobat's tools you should use and how.
This module will give you the confidence to mark up any PDF, customise your tools and toolbars, manage your comments and know how and when to apply on-screen BSI marks.
Course content
- Menus, tools and navigation
- Marking up a PDF
- Working efficiently
- Using stamps
- 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 commenting tools
- Customise the app and the tools
- Use the keyboard shortcuts available in Acrobat
- Manage comments efficiently
How does the course work?
Proofreading PDFs: A complete guide for editors has five 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 Proofreading PDFs, 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.
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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.