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Adobe Creative Suite 5 Printing Guide 5
•Adobe PDF Preset indicates whether a default preset or a user-creat-
ed preset is being used. If you’ve started with an existing preset and
modied some of its seings, the preset name is followed by “(modi-
ed).”
•Standard species whether the seing achieves a dened PDF/X
format for the le (such as PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, or PDF/X-4), or meets
the denitions for one of the PDF/A (archival) standards.
•Compatibility indicates the minimum version of Acrobat required to
read the le. e label in parentheses shows the PDF le specication
that applies; for example, “Acrobat 5 (PDF 1.4)” indicates that the
resulting PDF will be compatible with Acrobat 5.0 and later, and that
the le meets the PDF 1.4 specication. Proper compatibility also
aects other applications that must process the PDF, such as imposi-
tion soware. While an Acrobat 9-compatible le may seem more
“modern,” your imposition soware may not allow you to use it.
Consult the documentation for such soware, as well as the require-
ments for your RIP, to determine the appropriate compatibility seing.
•General includes basic le options, such as page range. e choices in
the “Options” and “Include” sections of the General pane (such as
Bookmarks, Hyperlinks, and Tagged PDF) aect only web-appropriate
PDFs and do not pertain to print-ready PDFs. However, if you are
producing a document that may be used in various media or that
could be archived, it is recommended that you congure these options
appropriately as well.
•Compression allows you to specify seings for compression and
downsampling of images. Additional options let you compress text
and line art, and crop images to frame limits.
•Marks and Bleeds options let you include crop and bleed marks, as
well as page information, bleed, and slug area.
•Output controls how colors are converted (or preserved), based on
your choices and the color management seings in eect.
•Advanced controls font embedding and subseing, OPI comments,
transparency aening (if necessitated by the PDF compatibility
seing), and the inclusion of JDF information.
•Embedding includes the entire character set of a font in the resulting
PDF; subseing is a form of embedding that includes only characters
used in the document, and results in a smaller le size. Although
Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and Distiller correctly embed fonts in
PDF les, some non-Adobe applications may not. Additionally, some
fonts cannot be embedded in PDFs because of vendor licensing
restrictions. It is advised that you never create a PDF without embed-
ding or subseing fonts.
•Security allows you to add password-based security to the PDF le.
(Security options are not available during creation or editing of a PDF
preset. Security options are available only at the time of PDF creation
or later within Acrobat). Note that imposition soware may reject a
PDF with security seings, even if the le does not require a password.
It’s best to avoid any security restrictions on PDFs intended for print. If
a customer supplies a PDF with security seings applied, request that
they submit a replacement PDF without security seings. Note that
security is not supported in PDF/X compliant les for this reason.
•Summary displays an overview of the PDF seings. To expand the
description for each category, click the arrow to the le of the topic. If
any conicts occur (such as a source color prole that doesn’t match
the color seings le in eect), a warning will appear in the Warnings
area.
Default PDF settings
Several of the default PDF presets (also referred to as joboptions files)
are specifically intended for commercial printing, with some important
differences noted. Typically, it’s most appropriate to start with one of
the default settings, modify it to suit your needs, and save that setting
as a custom job option. Since PDF settings are stored in a common
repository and shared by InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Distiller,
you can create custom presets in one of the applications, and the
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