CREATING PDF FILES

FROM COREL VENTURA, MICROSOFT WORD, MICROSOFT PUBLISHER, WORDPERFECT

In some cases, PDF files can also be generated directly from applications in Windows. When Acrobat 6 or 7 is installed in Windows, a PDF driver is installed in the Printers Control Panel. As with PostScript drivers, the PDF driver must also be configured before generating PDF files.

The following are the steps necessary to configure the PDF driver:

  1. In the Printers and Faxes control panel select Adobe PDF.

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  2. Right-click and select Printing Preferences.

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  3. In the Printing Preferences select the PDF Settings tab.
  4. Deselect 'Do not send fonts to Adobe PDF'.
  5. Select Edit located to the right of 'Adobe PDF Conversion Settings'.

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General Tab

  1. Set Compatibility to Acrobat 5.0 (PDF 1.4).
  2. Set Object Level Compression to Off.
  3. Set Auto-Rotate Pages to Off.
  4. Set Binding to Left and Resolution to 2400DPI.
  5. Set the Default Page Size 8.5X11. Note: If the document is 8.5X11 and it contains bleed set the Page Size to 11X17.

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Images Tab

  1. For Colour Images select Bicubic Downsampling to 300 DPI for images above 450 DPI. Repeat for Grayscale Images.
  2. For Monochrome images select Bicubic Downsampl,ing to 1200 DPI for images above 1800 DPI.
  3. Set Compression to CCITT Group 4.
  4. Set Anti-alias to Off.

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Fonts Tab

  1. Select Embed all fonts.
  2. Select subset embedded fonts and set the percentage to 35%.
  3. Set When embedding fails to Cancel job. (If any font used in the document is not available at the time the PDF is being generated, PDF maker will not generate a PDF).
  4. Clear all fonts from the 'Never Embed" field. There may be instances when the base 14 fonts have to be listed but it is best to start with an empty field. The base 14 fonts are Helvetica, Times, Courier and their various styles and the fonts Symbol and Zapf Dingbats.

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Color Tab

  1. Under Adobe Color Settings, click the down-arrow and select Color Management Off.
  2. Select Preserve under color removal and black generation.
  3. De-select Preserve halftone information.

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Advance Tab

  1. De-select Preserve OPI comments (bottom of screen).
  2. De-select Resize page and center artwork for EPS files.
  3. Click the Save As… button and give this collection of settings a new name. Do not remove the .joboptions extension.
  4. Click Ok to save.
  5. Back at the Adobe PDF Settings dialog box make sure that the name of the new settings file is selected as the Default Settings.
  6. Click Apply and then OK.

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