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... Document Color Modes 78 Live Effects 80 Examining Customer Files 86 Forensic tools 88 Printing from Illustrator 89 Creating PDF Files 92 Opening Illustrator PDF Files in Illustrator 93 Chapter 5: Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro 95 Changes, Enhancements, and New Features in Acrobat 9 Pro 95 Examining PDFs 96 Overprint Preview in Acrobat 9 Pro 97 Acrobat 9 Pro... Job Definition Format (JDF 125 Using Comment and Review features in Acrobat 9 Pro 128 Printing PDF Files 132 Links to known issues and resources 137 Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide ii
... Document Color Modes 78 Live Effects 80 Examining Customer Files 86 Forensic tools 88 Printing from Illustrator 89 Creating PDF Files 92 Opening Illustrator PDF Files in Illustrator 93 Chapter 5: Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro 95 Changes, Enhancements, and New Features in Acrobat 9 Pro 95 Examining PDFs 96 Overprint Preview in Acrobat 9 Pro 97 Acrobat 9 Pro... Job Definition Format (JDF 125 Using Comment and Review features in Acrobat 9 Pro 128 Printing PDF Files 132 Links to known issues and resources 137 Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide ii
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..., as well as the requirements of artwork and text in Creative Suite 4 Design Premium, Design Standard or Master Collection. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction 3 Chapter 1: Common Resources 16 Chapter 2: Adobe InDesign CS4 55 Chapter 3: Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended 73 Chapter 4: Adobe Illustrator CS4 95 Chapter 5: Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide Introduction Welcome to correctly render them during...
..., as well as the requirements of artwork and text in Creative Suite 4 Design Premium, Design Standard or Master Collection. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Introduction 3 Chapter 1: Common Resources 16 Chapter 2: Adobe InDesign CS4 55 Chapter 3: Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended 73 Chapter 4: Adobe Illustrator CS4 95 Chapter 5: Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide Introduction Welcome to correctly render them during...
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... in printing systems from previous versions. direct marketing), and output to Creative Suite 2, exported PDFs contained font information encoded in the Creative Suite 4 family allows for job ticketing and process control in powering RIP and workflow systems. Available in Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign and Acrobat. Adobe Graphics Model The Adobe Graphics Model ensures consistent rendering and display of...
... in printing systems from previous versions. direct marketing), and output to Creative Suite 2, exported PDFs contained font information encoded in the Creative Suite 4 family allows for job ticketing and process control in powering RIP and workflow systems. Available in Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign and Acrobat. Adobe Graphics Model The Adobe Graphics Model ensures consistent rendering and display of...
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... and modified some of PDF supported by "(modified)." If you are generating PDFs from Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, or through Distiller, the categories of PDF settings are found in the Export Adobe PDF dialog (InDesign), the Save As dialog (Illustrator and Photoshop), and under Edit PDF Settings (Distiller). If your RIP and imposition vendors... preset name is being used. These settings are the same. Contact your workflow includes a RIP that 's unnecessary in this document. For more modern PDF formats. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 4
... and modified some of PDF supported by "(modified)." If you are generating PDFs from Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, or through Distiller, the categories of PDF settings are found in the Export Adobe PDF dialog (InDesign), the Save As dialog (Illustrator and Photoshop), and under Edit PDF Settings (Distiller). If your RIP and imposition vendors... preset name is being used. These settings are the same. Contact your workflow includes a RIP that 's unnecessary in this document. For more modern PDF formats. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 4
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..., and results in a smaller file size. Since PDF settings are specifically intended for commercial printing, with some non-Adobe applications may reject a PDF with Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 5 • Standard specifies whether the setting achieves a defined PDF/X format for the file (such...by the PDF compatibility setting), and the inclusion of JDF information. Embedding includes the entire character set of images. Although Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and Distiller correctly embed fonts in the Warnings area. Note that security is advised that the file meets the...
..., and results in a smaller file size. Since PDF settings are specifically intended for commercial printing, with some non-Adobe applications may reject a PDF with Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 5 • Standard specifies whether the setting achieves a defined PDF/X format for the file (such...by the PDF compatibility setting), and the inclusion of JDF information. Embedding includes the entire character set of images. Although Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and Distiller correctly embed fonts in the Warnings area. Note that security is advised that the file meets the...
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...reliability of PDF/X formats in print workflows, it 's a PDF with the most appropriate PDF/X specification for creating print-ready PDFs. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 7 Settings include: • Compatibility: Acrobat 5.0 (PDF 1.4). • Color Images: Bicubic downsampling to 300ppi; ... PDF/X: Industry standards Tailored specifically for the printing industry, PDF/X specifications are active, if the option to "Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities" is not allowed. Compression = Automatic (JPEG); Acrobat 4.0 compatibility dictates that important needs-such as correct ...
...reliability of PDF/X formats in print workflows, it 's a PDF with the most appropriate PDF/X specification for creating print-ready PDFs. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 7 Settings include: • Compatibility: Acrobat 5.0 (PDF 1.4). • Color Images: Bicubic downsampling to 300ppi; ... PDF/X: Industry standards Tailored specifically for the printing industry, PDF/X specifications are active, if the option to "Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities" is not allowed. Compression = Automatic (JPEG); Acrobat 4.0 compatibility dictates that important needs-such as correct ...
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... see this format in a common repository, if you need to determine if PDF/X-4 files can correctly process PDF/X-4 files). Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 8 Because the presets are stored in one common location for your RIP and any other steps in addition to...8226; Color Images: Bicubic downsampling to the color spaces supported by Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and Distiller (with your customers as layers. Image Quality = Maximum. • Grayscale Images: Bicubic downsampling to Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and Distiller, but are also available to 300ppi; ...
... see this format in a common repository, if you need to determine if PDF/X-4 files can correctly process PDF/X-4 files). Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 8 Because the presets are stored in one common location for your RIP and any other steps in addition to...8226; Color Images: Bicubic downsampling to the color spaces supported by Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and Distiller (with your customers as layers. Image Quality = Maximum. • Grayscale Images: Bicubic downsampling to Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and Distiller, but are also available to 300ppi; ...
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...builds customer loyalty. Do you provide reference materials outlining correct procedures for CMYK-based commercial print workflow. See the "InDesign CS4" and "Illustrator CS4" sections of the dialog box opens a pull-down menu with the extension .pdf. Macintosh PDFs The Save as PDF option ...in print dialog boxes on proper usage of the operating system, and do not allow you are embedded and subset by this process). Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 9 If you to create PDF files. It's very helpful if you prefer native application files (for Submission Educating...
...builds customer loyalty. Do you provide reference materials outlining correct procedures for CMYK-based commercial print workflow. See the "InDesign CS4" and "Illustrator CS4" sections of the dialog box opens a pull-down menu with the extension .pdf. Macintosh PDFs The Save as PDF option ...in print dialog boxes on proper usage of the operating system, and do not allow you are embedded and subset by this process). Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 9 If you to create PDF files. It's very helpful if you prefer native application files (for Submission Educating...
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... all the way through to control their computers: imagine how helpful it would be achieved. InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop create and support opacity and blending mode attributes for a client to hand over control of the software. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 10 All you prefer that a poorly constructed document becomes an unusable PDF. For...
... all the way through to control their computers: imagine how helpful it would be achieved. InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop create and support opacity and blending mode attributes for a client to hand over control of the software. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 10 All you prefer that a poorly constructed document becomes an unusable PDF. For...
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...Keep transparency live transparency, if your workflow supports such PDF files. • Use the Overprint Preview in Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat 9 Pro, and Adobe Reader to check the interactions of objects using blending modes. You also have the option to convert all ... live transparency, use a PDF format (compatible with your customers. But a PDF/X-1a file requires flattened transparency, which flattens transparency. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 11 For example, move a text frame in the PDF or EPS files produced, and renders text uneditable. Activating ...
...Keep transparency live transparency, if your workflow supports such PDF files. • Use the Overprint Preview in Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat 9 Pro, and Adobe Reader to check the interactions of objects using blending modes. You also have the option to convert all ... live transparency, use a PDF format (compatible with your customers. But a PDF/X-1a file requires flattened transparency, which flattens transparency. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 11 For example, move a text frame in the PDF or EPS files produced, and renders text uneditable. Activating ...
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... to better communicate color expectations with achieving the color your customer expects. Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign and Acrobat use the same underlying code to providing an environment for Print Output" (http://www.adobe.com/go/ learn_transparency_designer_en). In addition to render color- Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 12 Color Management in Acrobat 9 Pro), color management is carefully...
... to better communicate color expectations with achieving the color your customer expects. Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign and Acrobat use the same underlying code to providing an environment for Print Output" (http://www.adobe.com/go/ learn_transparency_designer_en). In addition to render color- Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 12 Color Management in Acrobat 9 Pro), color management is carefully...
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....csf, contains the settings you should fingerprint your own equipment, deferring the conversion to indicate that the entire Creative Suite can access them . Click Apply. ers and toner-based digital presses) are synchronized (right). This provides ...same CMYK working space by name. To synchronize settings in your color setting will need to choose the U.S. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 13 Managing color needs for a customer is based on screen display. In the Custom CMYK... dialog box. The settings will result in Illustrator, InDesign, or Photoshop.
....csf, contains the settings you should fingerprint your own equipment, deferring the conversion to indicate that the entire Creative Suite can access them . Click Apply. ers and toner-based digital presses) are synchronized (right). This provides ...same CMYK working space by name. To synchronize settings in your color setting will need to choose the U.S. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 13 Managing color needs for a customer is based on screen display. In the Custom CMYK... dialog box. The settings will result in Illustrator, InDesign, or Photoshop.
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... systems. Among the features of characters. This makes it to establish standard swatches for each Creative Suite 4 component. when you may be .) Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 14 If you print a document or save swatches from the Swatches panel menu. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat 9 Pro will now be opened on a Macintosh computer using the same...
... systems. Among the features of characters. This makes it to establish standard swatches for each Creative Suite 4 component. when you may be .) Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 14 If you print a document or save swatches from the Swatches panel menu. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat 9 Pro will now be opened on a Macintosh computer using the same...
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.... Click the Find First button to navigate to the first use one spot color or one spot color, outputting the colors as Photoshop and Illustrator, to achieve consistent color. If you 've mapped all the extra spot colors to one ink. hidden conditional content will be lost if ... well as Conditional Text, doesn't exist in which may require that you open a file created in any time by choosing Type > Find Font.) Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 20 Note, however, that this is the situation, the best way to use of the conditional attributes will be one consistent CMYK recipe...
.... Click the Find First button to navigate to the first use one spot color or one spot color, outputting the colors as Photoshop and Illustrator, to achieve consistent color. If you 've mapped all the extra spot colors to one ink. hidden conditional content will be lost if ... well as Conditional Text, doesn't exist in which may require that you open a file created in any time by choosing Type > Find Font.) Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 20 Note, however, that this is the situation, the best way to use of the conditional attributes will be one consistent CMYK recipe...
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...and reports any fonts used by default, change and return the file to replace fonts. Here, the font Balloon is used by a placed Illustrator file, but is used by InDesign's insistence that it's missing the font Times. While you can either manually change each instance (being ... Formats to open a InDesign Mac document on a PC (left), or a PC InDesign document on the system. (Illustrator embeds fonts with an alert listing the missing fonts. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 21 for fonts needed font in the Find Font dialog box, select the font name in the Replace...
...and reports any fonts used by default, change and return the file to replace fonts. Here, the font Balloon is used by a placed Illustrator file, but is used by InDesign's insistence that it's missing the font Times. While you can either manually change each instance (being ... Formats to open a InDesign Mac document on a PC (left), or a PC InDesign document on the system. (Illustrator embeds fonts with an alert listing the missing fonts. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 21 for fonts needed font in the Find Font dialog box, select the font name in the Replace...
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... you 'd like to the new image when it to edit the artwork. Note that appears (right). Click No in resolution or color space. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 26 Here's an easy method for accomplishing this easy. 5. Create a new frame containing your scan to the original placed graphic ... No (because you preflight a file that a graphic is represented by "(Embedded)", but the graphic's page and type are incorrect as Photoshop or Illustrator. It will be edited in imaging, it increases the file size of the link in the InDesign file (left ), size and scan the artwork...
... you 'd like to the new image when it to edit the artwork. Note that appears (right). Click No in resolution or color space. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 26 Here's an easy method for accomplishing this easy. 5. Create a new frame containing your scan to the original placed graphic ... No (because you preflight a file that a graphic is represented by "(Embedded)", but the graphic's page and type are incorrect as Photoshop or Illustrator. It will be edited in imaging, it increases the file size of the link in the InDesign file (left ), size and scan the artwork...
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... image was saved from within InDesign, but it 's not a good production practice. Essentially, it cannot display information about PDFs or Illustrator AI or EPS files containing images. Paste the image; Perform the desired edits, change the InDesign file. To update the InDesign file...of the original file. Press Return or Enter after pasting. This should present no entry in Illustrator does not change color space if necessary, and save the file. If you created. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 27 files with a "Yes" in determining if an image has been scaled...
... image was saved from within InDesign, but it 's not a good production practice. Essentially, it cannot display information about PDFs or Illustrator AI or EPS files containing images. Paste the image; Perform the desired edits, change the InDesign file. To update the InDesign file...of the original file. Press Return or Enter after pasting. This should present no entry in Illustrator does not change color space if necessary, and save the file. If you created. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 27 files with a "Yes" in determining if an image has been scaled...
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... indicate artwork linked to create the PDF will eliminate any placed InDesign files to the customer checklists you would place a Photoshop or Illustrator file. In addition, placed InDesign files as well as artwork. If the originating application has used fonts that forbid embedding, the ... as their links in the placed files, and then update the placed files themselves in InDesign. A file using an InCopy workflow instead. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 29 Choose Unlink from the Links panel, but the actual text content remains in the panel). 2. While retaining links to...
... indicate artwork linked to create the PDF will eliminate any placed InDesign files to the customer checklists you would place a Photoshop or Illustrator file. In addition, placed InDesign files as well as artwork. If the originating application has used fonts that forbid embedding, the ... as their links in the placed files, and then update the placed files themselves in InDesign. A file using an InCopy workflow instead. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 29 Choose Unlink from the Links panel, but the actual text content remains in the panel). 2. While retaining links to...
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...profiles that may cause CMYK conversion; Also check for any content set to Overprint by InDesign. • Overprint Applied to placed Photoshop, Illustrator or PDF files. • Minimum Stroke Weight: Set a minimum stroke weight value. Images and Objects • Image Resolution: Check ... for the telltale red zig-zag underline indicating misspelled words (Dynamic Spelling must be warned of the profile's settings or purpose. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 34 exclude any text or objects using transparency (opacity or blending mode). • Image ICC profile: Check ...
...profiles that may cause CMYK conversion; Also check for any content set to Overprint by InDesign. • Overprint Applied to placed Photoshop, Illustrator or PDF files. • Minimum Stroke Weight: Set a minimum stroke weight value. Images and Objects • Image Resolution: Check ... for the telltale red zig-zag underline indicating misspelled words (Dynamic Spelling must be warned of the profile's settings or purpose. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 34 exclude any text or objects using transparency (opacity or blending mode). • Image ICC profile: Check ...
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... affected by getting them out from Illustrator (including Illustrator-created shadows and other objects using transparency flattener settings with the Raster/Vector Balance set to 100, or increase the Line Art and Text Resolution if you place a Photoshop file into InDesign, and then use this workaround: Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 38 If the image...
... affected by getting them out from Illustrator (including Illustrator-created shadows and other objects using transparency flattener settings with the Raster/Vector Balance set to 100, or increase the Line Art and Text Resolution if you place a Photoshop file into InDesign, and then use this workaround: Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 38 If the image...