
S A F W I A
Adobe Creative Suite 5 Printing Guide 7
S A F W I A
Standard [available in Distiller only]
Intended for viewing and printing business documents (but not for
commercial print). Most spot color content is usually maintained, but
areas interacting with transparency may be converted to RGB. Standard
settings include:
•Compatibility: Acrobat 6.0 (PDF 1.5).
•Color Images: Bicubic downsampling to 150 ppi; Compression =
Automatic (JPEG); Image Quality = Medium.
•Grayscale Images: Bicubic downsampling to 150 ppi; Compression =
Automatic (JPEG); Image Quality = Medium.
•Output: Destination = sRGB IEC61966-2.1.
Oversized Pages [available in Distiller only]
Intended for use in architectural and engineering environments, this
option allows pages in excess of 200 x 200 inches (such as CAD files) to
be saved as PDFs. Most spot color content is maintained, but areas
interacting with transparency may be converted to RGB. Settings
include:
•Compatibility: Acrobat 7.0 (PDF 1.6).
•Color Images: Bicubic downsampling to 150 ppi; Compression =
Automatic (JPEG); Image Quality = Medium.
•Grayscale Images: Bicubic downsampling to 150 ppi; Compression =
Automatic (JPEG); Image Quality = Medium.
•Output: Destination = sRGB IEC61966-2.1.
PDF/A-1b:2005 (CMYK) and PDF/A-1b:2005 (RGB)
[available in Distiller only]
PDF/A is an ISO standard for long-term storage of electronic documents
(the A stands for “archival”). Audio and video content are not allowed,
and the PDF may not invoke external information sources (such as
attachments, fonts, or hyperlinks). No encryption is permitted, and
JavaScript is not allowed. Settings include:
•Compatibility: Acrobat 5.0 (PDF 1.4).
•Color Images: Bicubic downsampling to 300 ppi; Compression =
Automatic (JPEG); Image Quality = Maximum.
•Grayscale Images: Bicubic downsampling to 300 ppi; Compression =
Automatic (JPEG); Image Quality = Maximum.
•Output: Color mode depends on the choice of the PDF/A-1b:2005
(CMYK) or PDF/A-1b:2005 (RGB) standard.
Illustrator Default [available in Illustrator only]
A PDF created with Illustrator’s Default setting is essentially an
Illustrator file in a PDF wrapper: to Illustrator, it’s just a normal Illustrator
file, with all layers, objects, and effects intact. To other applications, it’s
a PDF with Acrobat 6.0 compatibility. Unlike other PDF files, these files
can be opened safely in Illustrator and edited, provided that the
necessary fonts are active, if the option to “Preserve Illustrator Editing
Capabilities” is selected. Settings include:
•Compatibility: Acrobat 6.0 (PDF 1.5).
•Color and Grayscale Images: No downsampling; Compression = ZIP
8-bit.
•Output: No color conversion.
PDF/X: Industry standards
Tailored specifically for the printing industry, PDF/X specifications are
intended to provide a framework for creating print-ready PDFs. PDF/X is
a subset of the full PDF specification, refined to prevent the inclusion of
non print-appropriate content such as movies, and to ensure that
important needssuch as correct font embeddingare honored. As
RIPs and other workflow components become more sophisticated, the
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