Re: Adobe Acrobat versions
Re: Adobe Acrobat versions
- Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat versions
- From: <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:43:44 -0500
Roger,
You say
Making PDFs from Word is asking for trouble, IMO.
I suspect the "trouble" you are referring to relates to
obtaining accurate color control. If this is the case,
could you elaborate on the typical problems I could face
using Word documents as the source. I am familiar with the
B&W-MS_Word-pdf workflow, having gone through the process
of publishing books with hundreds of B&W illustrations
done on a DocuTech, but I am less familiar with the
Color-MS_Word-pdf type of results.
Thanks,
Danny
www.BabelColor.com
Danny
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:10:42 -0500
Roger Breton <email@hidden> wrote:
I have been generating more of the PDFs for my clients
since they frequently
do not have any PDF generating applications. However, I
run into problems
when I send the PDFs to the print services. I frequently
get told they need
both a black & white version (PDF) and a color version
(PDF).
I am thinking of getting Acrobat, so rather than making
PDFs from Word,
Illustrator, or Photoshop (on the Mac), I could use
Acrobat as a more
reliable environment for providing PDFs to the print
shops.
- Sharon
What are you generating your PDF from? Direct from
Photoshop? Direct from
Word? Direct from Illustrator? Which versions?
Both Photoshop and Illustrator CS versions can directly
generate a print
quality PDF. So, in principles, you wouldn't need the
full Acrobat Pro
version. Making PDFs from Word is asking for trouble,
IMO.
What color management would you want to apply to your
PDF, Illustrator and
Photoshop documents on the way to make PDFs of?
You have to be aware of how PDFs are passed along in the
print food chain in
the printers you specifically deal with. Some will take
CMYK PDFs, others
will take RGB while some others, the more advanced guys,
will gladly accept
anything. So, I'd suggest you start raising questions at
these guys ends
first to find out what they accept and how they process
what other print
suppliers feed them, in terms of colors, if that's what
worries you. Then
work you way back to your work environment.
As far as Acrobat is concerned, you might consider
getting the Premium
Creative Suite which includes InDesign CS, Illustrator
CS, Photoshop CS,
GolLive CS and Acrobat CS for the price you used to pay
for Photoshop alone.
Regards,
Roger Breton | Laval, Canada | email@hidden
http://pages.infinit.net/graxx
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