CREATING PDF FILES

FROM ACROBAT DISTILLER VERSION 5

These settings can be used for both Windows and Macintosh

Step 1

  1. From the Settings Menu, select Job Options. This opens a dialog box containing a series of tabbed panels.

Step 2

  1. On the General tab, set Compatibility to Acrobat 5.0 (PDF 1.4).
  2. Clear all options below Compatibility.
  3. Select All for Page Range.
  4. Select Left for Binding.
  5. Set Resolution to 2400 DPI.
  6. For Page Size enter values that will accommodate the size of the document. In most cases Distiller will get the page size from PostScript code and override the values entered here.

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Step 3

  1. Select the Compressions Tab..
  2. For both Colour and Grayscale Images, select Bicubic Downsampling, 300 DPI for images above 450 DPI, set Compression to ZIP and set Quality to 8bit.
  3. For Monochrome Images, select Bicubic Downsampling to 1200 DPI for image above 1800 DPI and set Compression to CCITT Group 4.
  4. Select Compress Text and Line Art.

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Step 4

  1. Select the Fonts Tab.
  2. Select Embed All Fonts and Subset Fonts and set the value to 35%.
  3. Select When Embedding Fails and select Cancel Job from the pulldown menu. This will ensure that a PDF won’t be generated unless all the fonts used in the document are either embedded in the PostScript file or available to Distiller when generating the PDF file.
  4. Clear all fonts from the Never Embed field. (There may be instances when the Base 14 fonts need to be listed in this field but it is best to start with none).

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Step 5

  1. Select the Colour Tab..
  2. For Adobe Colour Settings, select Colour Management Off from the drop-down list.
  3. Select Preserve Overprint Settings.
  4. Select Preserve Under Color Removal and Black Generation Settings.
  5. Select Preserve Transfer Functions.
  6. Ensure that Preserve Halftone Information is not selected.

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Step 6

  1. Select the Advanced Tab.
  2. Select the following options: Preserve Level 2 copypage Semantics, Illustrator Overprint Mode, Convert Gradients to smooth shades.
  3. Under Document Structuring Conventions, select the following: Preserve EPS information from DSC, Preserve Document Information from DSC. De-select Preserve OPI Comments.

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Step 7

  1. Click Save as…
  2. Type a name and Click Save.
  3. Click OK.

On the main Distiller Window, for Job Options, select the name of the set that was just created.