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On 9/6/03 6:53 PM, Chuck Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could someone explain, or point me to an explanation, of how best to make a > Press spec PDF from an Illustrator 10 file on OSX.2.6? > > I'm confused by options. You can make a PDF within Illustrator. Is that good > for use by newspapers? Every dialog box along the way seems to offer a PDF > option. Do I take any of them? Or just continue on with "printing" to PDF > (with Adobe PDF chosen as the printer)? > > Saving back to Acrobat 4 seems to divide type paragraphs into chunks and > have troubles with transparency, etc. Hope it's reasonable to assume that > almost all printing companies can handle Acrobat 5. No, I do not think it is reasonable to assume anything when exchanging PDF files. This is why CGATS developed the PDF/X specification and Application notes for application developers and the vendors who need to consume PDF files for in imposition, pagination, prepress and print systems. http://www.npes.org/standards/cgats.html > > You can print to a PS file and have Distiller make the PDF. Is that better? Instead of saying "yes, it is better - I would rather say "verify that the PDF is in a reliable state by running it through some preflight application like Enfocus Pitstop Professional. Here is what Time magazine recommends; http://www.direct2.time.com/d2time/Procs/procs_ill.html But I must say that Magazines and Newspapers have different requirements - that is why Enfocus offers different profiles for each... http://www.enfocus.com/support/pdfprofileslist.php Never mind the differences between SWOP and SNAP SWOP - http://www.swop.org/specifications.html SNAP - http://www.naa.org/preview.cfm?AID=1451 Here is an article about exporting print ready PDFs from Illustrator http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/18794.html > The one I did recently rotated my landscape file to an on-its-side portrait > (and I couldn't figure out how to restore it; was able to change the View in > Distiller 6 but not the way the file was saved). Probably either a PPD setting or Page Setup change you need to make... > > You can make an EPS, place that in QuarkXPress, save that as a Quark EPS and > distill that (that's the way the newspaper does it, on a page basis). The > one I tried appeared on screen to be over-saturated. Wow, that seems like driving from New Jersey to New York via Florida... <wink> > > My criteria, I guess, are: good quality, editable, something the newspapers > and magazines will like. Well, that�s is what you should have as a criteria, hope the links above help you get PDF files in the condition you require... ===================== Cheers, Michael Jahn 1104 Esplanade Suite 102 Redondo Beach California 90277 Home office : 310 540 6950 Fax: 310 540 8369 ===================== To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
