Comments on: Ensuring Objects Bleed off the Page Properly

By: James Wamser

James Wamser — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:47:41 +0000

I agree, you do have to read every question very carefully!

– JW

By: Harbs

Harbs — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:13:35 +0000

I never noticed the Bleed/Trim Hazard checkbox before, but the first three answers are clearly wrong, so I probably would have guessed “D” banking on the fact that it really exists somewhere…

Good to know about it though!

By: Dan Rodney

Dan Rodney — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:44:47 +0000

On Adobe’s site they say “Once obtained, your certification is valid until 90 days after the exam version of your certification is retired.”

It certainly is a gray area, but I always understood certification to imply the latest version. That is why the ACE logos do not include the version number. If you don’t recertify, I thought you are not allowed to continue using the logos or say you are certified. That was my impression at least.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:05:29 +0000

@Klaus, I have pinged my Adobe contact again. However, Adobe is closed this entire week, so I don’t expect to hear back for a while.

By: Klaus Nordby

Klaus Nordby — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:49:11 +0000

David, could you please re-check with Your Sources if the June 30 deadline Federico talks about is The Real Thing? I have received NO emails from Adobe in this matter, despite that being in their ACE database. I sure hope so, for meeting an end-of-April deadline for my IDCS4 re-certification would probably be impossible for me — so every day counts!

By: Old Jeremy

Old Jeremy — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:23:19 +0000

Thanks, David and federico!

From what federico says, it’s the “date of announcement” that counts. But that must be different from the publish date, because there are more than 90 days between February and June 30. (Although I suspect all those wild Certified Instructor parties might have taken away a “lost weekend” or two.)

I wish you the very best of luck with the exam, federico. You’ve inspired me to do the same, sometime next week.

By: federico platon

federico platon — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:29:43 +0000

First rule to succeed in a test:
Read the text of each question thoroughly, twice!

Old Jeremy, I have got this message last Abril 2nd:

Illustrator CS4, InDesign CS4, Acrobat 9, and Photoshop CS4 ACE Recertification English exams were published in February.
Existing Adobe Certified Instructors (ACI) will need to pass these recertification exams to retain their ACI status by June 30, 2009. This is 90 days from the date of this announcement.

Not sure if it applies in your case, I will try mine next week, send some luck.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:14:02 +0000

My understanding is that once you are certified, you can call yourself an ACE in InDesign. After 90 days, if you haven’t taken the recertification, you have to start specifying the version of InDesign you certified in. However, I think you can take the recertification after 90 days to recertify in the newer version. So the 90 days is all about “staying current.” However, it’s all rather unclear, even when I asked the person in charge of the program.

By: Old Jeremy

Old Jeremy — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:40:37 +0000

I think I would have got that one right — but it would have taken me an anxious few minutes getting there!

By the way, it’s nagging away at the back of my mind: how much longer do we current CS3 ACEs have to RE-certify? Is it 90 days from when the CS4 exam was first published, making it… sometime around the end of April?