Re: Adobe Acrobat versions
Re: Adobe Acrobat versions
- Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat versions
- From: Chris Murphy <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 10:36:13 -0700
On Nov 24, 2004, at 7:52 AM, Sharon Shea wrote:
What is the correct way to generate PDF(s) for use by a commercial
printer?
You need to ask the printer. Each printer should provide a .joboptions
file, and if they are clueless on this front then prepare yourself for
headaches when working with such printers. PDF isn't a magic bullet. It
requires a certain minimum level of sophisticated end user and printer
for it to work, although it's getting easier to do this.
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.
Which version of the new Acrobat, Pro or Standard, would not have me
replacing the pre-press end of the print shops, but would help me do
good
print PDFs for my clients that we don't land up losing our minds over.
By asking to produce print ready PDF, you are asking to do a bulk of
prepress work. If you don't want to be doing prepress work, then don't
go down the road of producing a PDF.
Adobe applications can spit out PDF, and that's the preferred way of
doing it. Spitting out PostScript and normalizing with Distiller is a
lower quality option for those applications. For Word, consider Enfocus
Instant PDF 3.0 which is shipping. Or import the Word document into
InDesign if it's mostly straightforward text - and reformat in
InDesign, and export PDF directly from there.
Consider using PDF/X-1a which was specifically designed for submitting
CMYK only PDFs for blind transfer of documents for printing purposes.
You still need to ask your printer if they will accept such a PDF.
Thanks for any comments on helping me get good logo and print PDFs
into the
black hole of the printer process that I'm told to send them to.
Also, I am a bit confused by the descriptions of the the new Acrobat
Pro and
Standard. I don't need a lot of bells and whistles, but I do want it
easier
to send high quality print PDFs to the print services. Is there any
quality
difference between Pro and Standard?
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/matrix.html
Chris Murphy
Color Remedies (TM)
www.colorremedies.com/realworldcolor
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Co-author "Real World Color Management, 2nd Edition"
Published by PeachPit Press (ISBN 0-321-26722-2)
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