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If you prefer that customers submit print-ready
PDF files, the preceding advice is still
beneficial, because using the tools correctly
and understanding your needs helps them
build better files, which become better PDFs.
No doubt you know all too well that a poorly
constructed document becomes an unusable
PDF. With that in mind, show customers how
to use the forensic tools in Acrobat X Pro to
highlight potential problems before they send
a PDF that won’t print as expected. Encourage
your customers to perform preflight
inspections on PDF files they are preparing for
print, to ensure a smoother flow in your
processes and reduce the amount of time you
spend fixing PDF files to meet your production
needs.
Consider providing custom presets to your
customers, to enable them to create PDFs to
your specifications. It is also helpful to provide
customized preflight profiles for Acrobat and
the new InDesign Live Preflight to customers to ensure that they
perform all the proper preflight checks according to your settings. For
more information on the Print Production tools in Acrobat X Pro, see
that section of this document.
Communicating with ConnectNow
All Creative Suite 5 applications provide a portal to Adobe ConnectNow
(part of Acrobat.com), a personal online web-conference tool (free for
up to three participants per meeting), so you can conduct real-time
meetings from your desktop. All you need is a web browser and the
free Flash player plug-in no additional software is required.
Attendees join the meeting by logging into a web-based meeting space
from their own computers. In a ConnectNow online meeting, you can
share your desktop, use live chat, share online whiteboards, and use
many other collaboration features. In addition, participants can give
each other permission to control their computers: imagine how helpful
it would be for a client to hand over control of
their desktop so you can show them step-by-
step how to fix a problem file. In Acrobat 9 or X,
choose Share My Screen from the Collaborate
menu. In Photoshop, Photoshop Extended,
Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver,
Fireworks and InCopy, choose File > Share My
Screen. You will find that ConnectNow can be a
powerful tool in customer communications.
This basic access to ConnectNow , which allows
you to share your screen with two other
participants at once, is free. If you need to
regularly collaborate with a larger audience of
attendees, consider purchasing one of the
commercial versions of Connect. For more
information, see
http://www.adobe.com/acom/connectnow/
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As Adobe applications have developed more sophisticated methods of
flattening transparency to meet the limitations of PostScript-based
workflows, and as RIP manufacturers have enhanced the capabilities of
their devices, imaging transparency is no longer the challenge it was in
earlier versions of the software. Transparency is completely and natively
supported by the PDF imaging model. Because transparency rendering
is dependent upon the color profile and resolution of the final output
device, it is desirable to maintain transparency effects in a live,
unflattened state right through to final output. PDF jobs which are
rendered by a PostScript RIP must be flattened to opaque objects prior
to rendering. If the job is properly constructed, this can happen very late
USING CONNECTNOW
TO HELP CUSTOMERS
In addition to provid-
ing your custom PDF
presets to customers,
consider using the
Share My Screen func-
tion in Creative Suite 5
to demonstrate how to
load and use custom
presets. For example
you can take over con-
trol of their computer
if necessary to show
them how to use the
correct preset to create
PDFs in Creative Suite
5 applications.
Use the Overprint Preview
in Illustrator, InDesign,
Acrobat X Pro, and Adobe
Reader to check the color
interactions of objects
using blending modes,
opacity seings, or over-
print. Activating Overprint
Preview in these compo-
nents generates a more
realistic display of artwork,
providing the opportunity
to catch objects that may
image dierently from the
way they appear when
viewed in the normal,
composite view. Note that
Acrobat X Pro and Adobe
Reader 9 now automatically
activate Overprint Preview
when opening PDF/X
les. Overprint Preview
can also be controlled
in Preferences in both
applications.
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