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PDF Instructions
How to create professional PDF files for pre-press.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Introduction ....................................................................2
Basic PDF Guidelines and Potential Problems...................3
Acrobat Distiller 4.0 setup ...............................................5
Acrobat Distiller 5.0 setup ...............................................6
PDF Creation in Mac QuarkXPress 5.0 .............................7
Export to PDF Filter .......................................................9
PDF Creation from PC QuarkXPress ...............................11
PDF Creation from Mac Pagemaker 6.5 and 7.0............12
PDF Creation from PC Pagemaker 6.5 and 7.0 ..............13
PDF Creation from PC InDesign 1.5...............................14
PDF Creation from Mac InDesign 1.5 ............................16
PDF Creation from PC/Mac InDesign 2.0.......................18
PDF Creation from Mac Illustrator 10.0 .........................20
PDF Creation from Mac Photoshop 7.0 .........................21
This set of instructions is not intended to replace the
manual for your software. It is intended to help you to
create PDF files that can be used for pre-press by most
commercial printers. Some printers may have slightly
different requirements.
History
PDF was initially created as an Adobe internal project to
allow documents to be distributed through the company
and displayed on the various computer systems in use
there. In 1992 the commercial version of Acrobat was
announced at Comdex, the file format went through
several releases until Acrobat 4.0 was released in 1999.
Acrobat 4.0 was the first version fully useable for a
Pre-press environment.
Today
Additional Help
Acrobat and the PDF file format are in use for more than
just Pre-press. Government and corporations are using
PDF to distribute; annual reports, forms, advertising, and
other publications. Software manufacturers are including
a PDF of the instruction manual instead of printing and
shipping. Book publishers are exploring the security
features of the latest versions to sell eBooks. We are using
PDF to make your printing job a much smoother
experience.
Production Software:
Adobe Acrobat, Pagemaker, InDesign, Illustrator & Photoshop
http://www.Adobe.com/
QuarkXPress
http://www.Quark.com/
Preflight Software:
Enfocus PitStop Professional
http://www.enFocus.com/
Callas PDF Inspektor
http://www.CallasSoftware.com/
Adobe InProduction
http://www.Adobe.com/
PDF and Pre-press
The great advantage of PDF is in you, the customer, not
having to collect the various components of your job for
delivery to us. You create the PDF file and just deliver
that. A secondary benefit is in the PDF being mostly
WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get). You don’t
have to worry about text reflowing, or having fonts go
bad, if it PDF’s correctly it should run correctly. The
difficulty is in learning how to make good PDF files, that is
what this document helps to address. Good luck and if
there are any questions, comments or problems, contact
Possession Studios.
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✔ Image resolution. For resolution, we are looking for 1.5
to 2.0 times the line screen of the job. Contact your
printer for that information. As a general rule though,
300DPI at final size will work. If you know what paper
your job prints on, you can also consult the chart on
the next page.
Basic PDF Guidelines and
Potential Problems
PDF creation is not an especially difficult or complicated
task. However there still are a few places where problems
can occur.
✔ Export to PDF. Export to PDF from InDesign, Illustrator,
and Photoshop don't use the Distiller to create the final
PDF. Not using Distiller can cause unpredictable font
issues. The exception to this is InDesign 2.0 it’s export
function is as reliable as using Distiller.
✔ Image color. If your images are color, they need to be
CMYK without any ICC profiles embedded in them.
Sometimes ICC profiles can cause a CMYK image to
appear in Acrobat as LAB color. This will not print
correctly.
✔ Acrobat Distiller 4.0 or newer must be used. The earlier
versions of Acrobat didn’t embed the “Base 14 fonts”.
If you are using Acrobat 4.0, there is a free update to
4.05 available from Adobe, it fixes some resolution
related difficulties in 4.0.
✔ Grayscale Tiffs colored in PageMaker won’t separate
correctly. You will have to use CMYK tiffs instead.
✔ PDF files placed as art. Generally, PDF files placed in
your page layout program will not re-PDF correctly.
Either the fonts won’t be correctly embedded, or the
graphics will have some strangeness to them. This will
depend on how the original PDF was created.
✔ The Document size is not correct. Most commercial
printers rarely print a job at 8.5x11 much more
common sizes are 8.375x10.875 or 8.25x10.75. If your
source document isn’t built to the correct size, the final
output may not be quite the way you are expecting it
to look.
✔ Spot colors. PDF files don’t always handle spot colors
correctly, the solution is to replace the spot color with
Magenta or Cyan. If your job prints 5 colors on the
same form, contact your printers. PDF may not work.
✔ Bleed. We ask for .25” bleed. If you send files with less
bleed, we may have a difficult time with your job on
press or in the bindery.
✔ The color palette. Remove all unused colors from the
palette, and make sure that all colors are converted to
process.
✔ Type too close to trim. The errors that bleed is
designed to compensate for go in both directions; as a
result we ask that you don’t place anything important
closer than 1/4” from trim, especially type. If the type
is within 1/4” of trim, it is possible for it to be cut off.
✔ Fonts. Occasionally a font will not embed, without the
fonts embedded, we will not be able to print your PDF
correctly.
✔ Number of pages. While we can accept single page
PDF files, the preferred method is to try and send us as
few files as possible. If you can save your entire job into
1 PDF that would be preferable. For any correction
pages, single page PDF files are fine.
✔ Crop marks. For Quark and InDesign users, make sure
that crops are turned off. For Pagemaker users, if your
job bleeds, you have to have crops on. Without crops,
the bleeds won’t show.
✔ Images too dark. One of the things that we normally
check is the tonal range of your images. If they are too
dark, we let you know and/or adjust them. With PDF
files, we can neither check or alter the images. We are
looking for halftones that have approximately a 3%
highlight dot, and an 88% shadow. Color images
should be 270% total ink coverage, and approximately
a 75% black in the shadows.
✔ PDF file failed to be created. Look in the directory that
the PDF file was being created in for a .log file. This file
can be opened in any text editor, and should hold
some clues as to why the PDF wasn’t generated. The
single biggest reason that we have seen, is that you
don’t have both the printer and screen fonts for a font,
and it can’t embed. If this happens, try to find the
missing component, or change the font.
Guidelines and Potential Problems
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✔ Color Management. In general color management
features will cause problems with Acrobat, it tends to
convert color managed documents to either RGB or
LAB Color, neither of which will separate correctly.
These may seem like a lot of potential problems to look
for, but you are doing a good deal of the work that we
would normally do. With the limited editability built into
the PDF format, you are ensuring your job will run
smoothly.
✔ Test files. Before your first PDF job, contact your
printer, and try to arrange sending a couple of pages in
for us to test. This allows us to check to see if anything
is going to cause us problems, and to let you know,
before it is crunch time and your job is due, but it
won’t run, or you can’t even create the PDF files.
✔ Hard Copy. After creating your PDF files, you want to
generate a final set of hard copy to send. The other use
of this hard copy is to double check that nothing
strange happened while creating your PDF files.
✔ If you are using PageMaker 6.5 and Windows 2000 or
Windows XP please remember that PageMaker 6.5 is
not certified to work with these operating systems and
you may get unreliable performance. One of the most
common issues is fonts not being sent to Distiller
properly the workaround is to not treat Acrobat
Distiller like a printer. Instead, please refer to the
Macintosh instructions for the correct procedure.
Remember to use Acrobat Distiller 3010.106 as your
PPD. Even then, it may not work, the most reliable
solution will be to purchase the PageMaker 7.0
upgrade.
✔ To further check to see that everything was done
correctly, there are products that preflight PDF files.
Enfocus PitStop, Callas PDF Inspektor, and Adobe
InProduction. Currently PitStop is less expensive, and
you can download a 30 day fully working trial copy
from their website. InProduction has a trial via eMail.
PDF Inspector is an application we have tested but not
used at all, it is the most limited of the options.
Paper
Line Screen
Gloss
Matte
Opaque
Offset
E-Cal
Newsprint
Rebrite
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150
133
120
120
100
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Acrobat Distiller 4.0 setup
The default Job options in Acrobat Distiller can be
adjusted to whatever specifications you need. With the
Press Optimized Job Option selected, go to
Settings > Job Options.
Under the General Tab, set Compatibility to Acrobat 4.0,
Resolution to 2400 dpi, and Binding to Left. Generate
Thumbnails is optional, it will make your PDF file larger,
with thumbnails for ease of navigation, this setting does
nothing for us.
Under the Color Tab, uncheck “Preserve Overprint
Settings”, this will fix the trapping issues our RIP
sometimes has. Make sure that Leave Color unchanged is
checked, this will ensure that Distiller doesn’t add any
color profiles, this could change the colors in your file.
Under the Compression Tab uncheck all of the Bicubic
Downsampling buttons, this will leave the resolution of
your images untouched.Leave the compression settings
on automatic and Quality at Maximum.
Under the Advanced Tab, uncheck the
“Preserve OPI Comments” box.
Under the Fonts Tab, make sure that Subset all fonts
below 100% is checked, this will force the font to embed
correctly. When embedding fails should be set to Cancel
Job, so that if the fonts don’t embed properly, the job will
fail to distill, and a log file will be generated.
With all of these sections, please make sure that your
settings match the provided images.
Distiller 4.0 Setup
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Acrobat Distiller 5.0 setup
Under the Compression Tab uncheck all of the Bicubic
Downsampling buttons, this will leave the resolution of
your images untouched.Leave the compression settings
on automatic and Quality at Maximum.
The default Job options in Acrobat Distiller can be
adjusted to whatever specifications you need. With the
Press Optimized Job Option selected, go to
Settings > Job Options.
Under the General Tab, set Compatibility to Acrobat 4.0,
Resolution to 2400 dpi, and Binding to Left. Embed
Thumbnails is optional, it will make your PDF file larger,
with thumbnails for ease of navigation, this setting does
nothing for us. The other settings can be left alone.
Under the Fonts Tab, make sure that Subset all fonts
below 100% is checked, this will force the font to embed
correctly. When embedding fails should be set to Cancel
Job, so that if the fonts don’t embed properly, the job will
fail to distill, and a log file will be generated.
Acrobat Distiller 5.0 Setup
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Under the Color Tab, change the Settings File to Color
Management Off. This will prevent Acrobat from applying
any ICC color profiles to your images that may alter the
expected color. Uncheck Preserve Overprint Settings,
Preserve Undercolor Removal, and Preserve Halftone
Information this will further prevent any unusual color
shifts and allow your job to be trapped correctly.
Under the Advanced tab, Uncheck Illustrator Overprint
Mode and Preserve OPI Comments. Everything else
should be set as indicated below.
With all of these sections, please make sure that your
settings match the provided images.
Acrobat Distiller 5.0 Setup
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PDF Creation in Mac QuarkXPress 5.0
Setup Tab, choose the Printer Description file based on
the version of Acrobat installed on your computer, the
Printer Description for Acrobat 4.0 is just called Acrobat
Distiller. Paper width and height should be .5” larger than
the document size, the document size plus .25” for bleed.
In the example below, I set the document up as
8.375x10.875, and the paper size for the PDF is
8.875x11.375.
There are 2 methods of creating PDF files from Mac
Quark, the first method is to go through the Print Dialog
boxes to create a PostScript(.PS) file, then to Distill the file
into a PDF. The second method is to use the PDF export
filter that can be downloaded from the Quark website.
This method creates the .PS file and makes the PDF file in
one seamless step.
Quark settings common to
both methods
Make sure that any bleeds in your document are set to
.25”. Consult with your printer to determine the final size
of your document, and build the Quark page to that size,
if we have to reduce or enlarge the PDF, it could cause
problems with bleed or images cutting off. Set the
Trapping Preferences to Knockout All. Remove any
Unused Colors, and ensure that all colors are specified
correctly.
Print Dialog Boxes Method
Under the Document Tab, make sure that registration is
off, and bleed is set to .25”. DO NOT turn separations on,
we need to get the PDF files as composite, our RIP will do
the separations and trapping. If either Registration or
Separations are on we won’t be able to work with your
PDF file. Spreads, Thumbnails, and Tiling should also be
off.
Under the Output tab, set Print Colors to Composite
CMYK, Halftoning to Printer, and Resolution to 2400. If
the resolution is set to less than 2400, it is possible that
some of your images may PDF at a lower resolution than
you would expect.
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Options Tab; Turn the Quark Postscript Error Handler on,
and pictures should be set to Normal, Binary, Include
Images. Page Flip Should be set to none, and Negative
Print, should be off.
Depending on your PostScript driver, this next screen will
look somewhat different, it will also be named slightly
differently, again depending on PostScript version. The
general idea for this screen is to have the PostScript level
set to one that contains Level 2, Data format set to
Binary, and Font Inclusion set to All. The font inclusion is
extremely important, without it being set to all, your PDF
won’t have any embedded fonts.
Once you are satisfied that these settings are correct,
press the Printer button, this will bring up another set of
print dialog boxes. This is where you specify that you
want a .PS file.
Once you have successfully saved your .PS file, open in in
Acrobat Distiller with the correct Job Option selected.
Once Distiller is finished processing the .PS file, it can be
deleted. Check your PDF carefully, there are several tools
available for checking PDF files, “Enfocus Pitstop” and
“Adobe InProduction”.
In the first screen, set the Destination to File.
Export to PDF Filter
This filter must be downloaded from the Quark web site.
Once the filter is properly installed, the export function
can be found under the Utilities Pulldown menu. All the
following screens can be found by pressing the
Preferences button.
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The Document Info tab doesn’t really have any settings
that must be changed to create a working PDF.
The Job Options tab should be set so that the filter does
NOT override Distiller's Job Options.
The Hyperlinks tab should have all the items unselected.
The Output tab is where all of the important settings are
made. Set the Printer Description to Acrobat Distiller,
leave Separations and Use OPI unchecked. Registration
should be set to Off and Bleed set to Symmetric with an
amount of .25. This bleed setting will add .25” to each
dimension of your document. if it is created tot he correct
size, your will get a PDF that is sized correctly.
Once Distiller is finished processing, check your PDF
carefully, there are several tools available for checking PDF
files, “Enfocus Pitstop” and “Adobe InProduction”.
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PDF Creation from PC Quark
Output Tab; Print colors set to Composite CMYK,
Halftoning set to printer, and resolution set to 1200
or greater.
PDF creation from PC Quark is essentially a 1 step
process. You do not want to use “Acrobat PDFWriter” this
is only good for creating PDF files suitable for screen
viewing. The first step is to choose the Job Option you
created for use with your printer, the rest of the work is
done directly in Quark. After ensuring that your
document is created to the correct size, and the bleeds
are all set to at least .25”, and trapping is set to Knockout
All. Under the Document Tab choose Acrobat Distiller as
the printer, and set bleed to .25”( if your document
bleeds on any page). Registration and Separations must
be off. Registration marks will interfere with the bleed,
and our system needs the PDF files to be composite in
order to trap correctly.
OPTIONS TAB; Turn the Quark Postscript Error Handler
on, and pictures should be set to Normal, Binary, Include
Images
SETUP TAB, choose the Printer Description file based on
the version of Acrobat installed on your computer, the
Printer Description for Acrobat 4.0 is just called Acrobat
Distiller. Paper width and height should be .5” larger than
the document size, the document size plus .25” for bleed.
In the example below, I set the document up as
8.375x10.875.
Once your are sure all the settings are correct, press the
print button. The file will be printed through Acrobat
Distiller, when distilling is complete, the file will be
automatically opened in Acrobat. Check you document
carefully to ensure there were no problems in creating the
file. We do not have the ability to make even simple
changes to your file at this point. If there are any type
corrections you will need to supply us with a new file.
PDF Creation in PC Quark
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PDF Creation from Mac
Pagemaker 6.5 and 7.0
PDF creation from Mac Pagemaker is a 2 step process.
You do not want to use “Acrobat PDFWriter” this is only
good for creating PDF files suitable for screen viewing.
Before starting to create your PDF file you must make sure
that your document is built to the trim size in your bid
and that anything that needs to bleed hangs off the page
.125”. Also make sure that trapping is not enabled, this
will conflict with our In-RIP trapping. Once you are
satisfied that your job is ready to PDF, hit Print. Document
is the first tab that comes up, choose the Acrobat Distiller
PPD file. Make sure that the PPD file you have chosen is
the one that installed with Acrobat 4.0, the PPD that
installed with 3.0 will turn your job RGB.
Under the color tab, Composite color should be checked,
change Frequency to the line screen of your job, and
Angle can be left alone.
Under the Paper tab, choose Custom for paper size, and
set the size to 1 inch larger than your trim size. Activate
the printers marks, set them to print Crops and bleeds
only, and to center in the print area.
Under Features, set Resolution to 2400.
Once you have successfully saved your .PS file, open in
Once Distiller is finished processing the .PS file, it can be
deleted. Check your PDF carefully, there are several tools
available for checking PDF files, “Enfocus Pitstop” and
“Adobe InProduction”.
Under the Options tab, Image data set to Normal, Data
encoding to Binary. Download PS and TrueType fonts, use
Symbol font, write PostScript to file, normal, and Page
independence set.
Mac Pagemaker
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PDF Creation from PC
Pagemaker 6.5 and 7.0
the printers marks, set them to print Crops and bleeds
only, and to center in the print area. Under the Options
tab, Image data set to Normal, Data encoding to Binary.
Download PS and TrueType fonts, use Symbol font,
PDF creation from PC Pagemaker is a 1 step process. You
do not want to use “Acrobat PDFWriter” this is only good
for creating PDF files suitable for screen viewing. Before
starting to create your PDF file you must make sure that
your document is built to the trim size in your bid and
that anything that needs to bleed hangs off the page
.125”. Also make sure that trapping is not enabled, this
will conflict with our In-RIP trapping. Once you are
satisfied that your job is ready to PDF, open Distiller, and
change the job option to the one you created for use
with your printer. Go Back to Pagemaker and hit Print.
Document is the first tab that comes up, choose the
Acrobat Distiller as your printer, and Acrobat Distiller
3010.106 as your PPD. If you cannot see the Acrobat
Distiller 3010.106 PPD, you must install it. It can be found
in the /Acrobat/distiller/ xtras folder. The file you need is
adist4.ppd or adist 5.ppd. You need to copy this file into
the folder /PM65/RSRC/USenglish/PPD4 folder. This
should make the correct PPD visible.
write PostScript to file, normal, and Page independence
set. Under the color tab, Composite color should be
checked, change Frequency to the line screen of your job,
and Angle can be left alone. Under Features, set
Resolution to 2400.
Under the Paper tab, choose Custom for paper size, and
set the size to 1 inch larger than your trim size. Activate
Once you have successfully saved your .PS file, open in in
Once Distiller is finished check your PDF carefully, there
are several tools available for checking PDF files, “Enfocus
Pitstop” and “Adobe InProduction”.
PC Pagemaker
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PDF Creation from PC InDesign 1.5
PDF creation from PC InDesign is a 1 step process. You do
not want to use “Acrobat PDFWriter” this is only good for
creating PDF files suitable for screen viewing. Before
starting to create your PDF file you must make sure that
your document is built to the trim size in your bid and
that anything that needs to bleed hangs off the page
.125”. Do not use the Export to PDF feature within
InDesign, it doesn’t use distiller to create the PDF file, and
the PDF may not work as expected.
Once you are satisfied that your job is ready to PDF, open
Distiller, and change the job option to the one you
created for use with your printer. Go Back to InDesign
and hit Print. Advanced Page Control is the first tab,
choose Acrobat Distiller as your printer, and chose the
range of pages you want to print.
The second tab is color, choose composite and leave
screening set to default, For Frequency, set the LPI that
your job will be printed at. You will find a chart on the
first page of this packet showing paper and LPI.
Under Scale and Fit, set the x and y scale to 100%, and
under properties, chose a paper size that is .5” larger than
your trim size. If your job trims at 8.375x10.875, set your
custom page size to 8.875x11.375.
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Under Graphics, Send Image Data should be set to All.
Font Downloading should be set to Complete, and
Gradient options set to Force Continuous Tone Behavior.
Under the Page Marks tab, bleed should be set to .25”
with nothing else activated.
Under the Trapping tab, make sure that Trapping is off,
our RIP will trap your file as it processes the file.
Once your are sure all the settings are correct, press the
print button. The file will be printed through Acrobat
Distiller, when distilling is complete, the file will be
automatically opened in Acrobat. Check you document
carefully to ensure there were no problems in creating the
file. There are several tools available for checking PDF
files, “Enfocus Pitstop” and “Adobe InProduction”.
Mac InDesign
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PDF Creation from Mac InDesign 1.5
PDF creation from Mac InDesign is a 2 step process. The
first step is to generate a PostScript file, and the second is
to create a PDF file from the PostScript. You do not want
to use “Acrobat PDFWriter” this is only good for creating
PDF files suitable for screen viewing. Before starting to
create your PDF file you must make sure that your
document is built to the trim size in your bid and that
anything that needs to bleed hangs off the page .125”.
Do not use the Export to PDF feature within InDesign, it
doesn’t use distiller to create the PDF file, and the PDF
may not work as expected.
Go to the Scale and Fit pulldown menu, set the X and Y
scaling to 100%, and Center Page in Imageable Area
should be checked.
The first step of making a PostScript file is to go to Page
Setup and choose the correct paper size. You want to
choose a paper size that is .5” larger than the trim size of
your document, for an 8.375”x10.875” you will want to
create a custom size of 8.875”x11.375”.
Under Graphics, Send Image Data should be set to All.
Font Downloading should be set to Complete, and
Gradient options set to Force Continuous Tone Behavior.
After you have set the correct paper size, go to the print
dialog boxes. The first tab that will affect how a PDF is
created is Color. choose composite and leave screening
set to default, For Frequency, set the LPI that your job will
be printed at. You will find a chart on the first page of this
packet showing paper and LPI.
Under the Page Marks tab, bleed should be set to .25”
with nothing else activated.
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Option selected. Once Distiller is finished processing the
.PS file, it can be deleted. Check your PDF carefully, there
are several tools available for checking PDF files, “Enfocus
Pitstop” and “Adobe InProduction”.
Under the Trapping tab, make sure that Trapping is off,
our RIP will trap your file as it processes the file.
Under PostScript Settings, for Format, choose PostScript
Job, PostScript Level 2 Only, Binary, and a font Inclusion
of All. The font Inclusion setting is extremely important, if
this isn’t set to all, your fonts won’t embed in the PDF file.
You also want to change the Destination to File.
After you are satisfied that you have made all these
settings correctly, Hit the save button and save your
PostScript file. Once you have successfully saved your .PS
file, open it in Acrobat Distiller with the correct Job
Mac InDesign
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PDF Creation in PC/Mac InDesign 2.0
Under the Compression tab, make sure that No Sampling
Change is selected for all sections, and make sure that
Compress Text and Line art is selected, Crop Image Data
to Frames should not be selected.
There are 2 methods of creating PDF files from InDesign
2.0, the first method is to export the PDF through
InDesigns Export dialogue box. This method does not
need Acrobat Distiller to function. The second method is
to go through the Print Dialog boxes to create a
PostScript(.PS) file, then to Distill the file into a PDF. The
export method is the only method I am going to cover.
InDesign settings common to both methods
Make sure that any bleeds in your document are set to
.25”. Consult with your printer to determine the final size
of your document, and build the InDesign page to that
size, if we have to reduce or enlarge the PDF, it could
cause problems with bleed or images cutting off.
Export Method
This method does not need Distiller to function, so the
first step is to set up the PDF Style. You can access the
PDF Style pallet from the File menu. Create a new Style.
Under the General tab make sure that Spreads is not
checked. Compatibility should be set to Acrobat 4.0.
Under the Marks and Bleeds tab, All Printers marks should
not be selected. Bleeds should be set to .25” for all sides.
All of the option boxes should be unchecked.
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Under the Advanced tab, Color should be set to Leave
Unchanged. Fonts should be set to Subset Below 100%.
Nothing should be checked under OPI. Transparency
Flattener should be set to High Resolution.
Make sure that you style is set to the one you created for
making PDF files for your printer. You can check all of the
export settings here as well. Once you are satisfied that all
the settings are correct, Press Export.
Once you have set up the PDF style press OK. Go under
the File menu to Export and select PDF as the Format and
press Save.
Mac InDesign 2.0
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PDF Creation from Mac Illustrator 10.0
PDF creation from Mac Illustrator is a 1 step process.
plus bleed of .125" if needed. Mac Illustrator doesn't offer
the ability to include a bleed area in the PDF, so you must
add it to the document size.
Go under File to "Document Color Mode". Make sure the
mode is set to "CMYK Color".
Go under File to "Save As...".
On the Compression screen all compression and
downsampling options should be turned off.
Set "Format:" to Adobe PDF (PDF). Select "Append file
Extension" and "Lower Case" and click Save.
On the "Adobe PDF Format Options" screen set the
"Option Set:" to Custom.
On the General screen File Compatibility should be set to
"Acrobat 5.0" with Preserve Illustration Editing Capabilities
turn on. Options should be set with Embed all fonts and
Subset fonts when less then : 100% of characters are used
both on. "Generate Thumbnails" should be on also.
NOTE: Most PDF files can be opened and somewhat
edited using Adobe Illustrator.
Mac Illustrator 10.0
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[email protected]
PDF Creation from Mac Photoshop 7.0
On the "PDF Options" screen set the "Encoding" to JPEG,
with quality at 12. Select Include Vector Data and select
Embed Fonts.
PDF creation from Mac Photoshop is a 1 step process.
plus bleed of .125" if needed. Mac Photoshop doesn't
offer the ability to include a bleed area in the PDF, so you
must add it to the document size. The file must be set to
at less 300 dpi.
Go under Image to "Mode". Make sure the mode is set to
"CMYK Color".
For best results leave any text as independent layers and
merge all rasterized layers together.
Go under File to "Save As...".
Set "Format:" to Photoshop PDF. Set "Color" to Embed
Color Profile. Set "File Extension" to Append and Use
Lower Case and click Save.
Mac Photoshop 7.0
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