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Adobe Creative Suite 5 Printing Guide 9
Managing Custom PDF presets
Supplied PDF presets are stored in one common location for access by
Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and Distiller (with the exceptions of
application-specific presets noted previously). Because the presets are
stored in a common repository, if you attempt to delete a preset, you’ll
receive an alert that deletion will affect more than the application
you’re using at the moment.
User-created custom presets are also available to Illustrator, InDesign,
Photoshop and Distiller, but are stored in a separate location from the
factory presets. On the Mac, you’ll find custom settings in [user]/Library/
Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings. On a PC, they’re
stored in C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\Adobe\
Shared Documents\Adobe PDF\Settings. As you establish methods for
the creation of PDFs for your particular workflow, standardize all of your
prepress workstations, and share those methods and the correct
presets with your customers to ensure submission of appropriate PDF
files as final job files. You can provide the correct PDF presets to your
customers as *.joboptions files; they simply double-click the file and it’s
automatically installed in the correct location.
The methods for exporting and importing saved PDF presets varies
slightly by Creative Suite 5 component; see this document’s section on
the individual component (or consult the Help menu for the application)
for specifics.
“Save as PDF” feature [Mac OS® only]
NOTE: This feature should ONLY be used with non-Adobe applications.
Clicking the Printer button in print dialog boxes on the Apple®
Macintosh® takes you to the operating system’s printer dialog. The PDF
button at the bottom of the dialog box opens a pull-down menu with
PDF options. The Save as PDF function is an Apple operating system
process, and does not invoke Acrobat or Distiller. Instead, use the Save
as Adobe PDF option
Save As PDF
e Save as PDF option available in Macintosh print dialog boxes does not use Distiller or
any other Adobe process to create PDF les.
Use “Save as Adobe PDF” instead (available only on 10.6 [Snow Leopard] and later).
If you are limited to an older workflow which requires that you submit
PostScript or EPS files for RIP processing, consult the vendor
documentation for your system before creating PostScript or EPS files.
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Educating your customers makes your lifeand theirseasier on many
levels, and as a result also builds customer loyalty. It’s very helpful if you
provide reference materials outlining correct procedures for job
submission. Do you prefer native application files (for example, an
InDesign file plus support art)? Advise your customers on proper usage
of InDesign’s Live Preflight and Package features, and point out the
forensic tools built into InDesign and Illustrator that can help them find
errors before sending their files to you. For example, Illustrator CS5
includes a Separation Preview function, and you can create and share
custom InDesign Preflight profiles with your customers. See the
“InDesign CS5/5.5” and “Illustrator CS5” sections of this document for
more information.
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