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Saving and
Exporting Files
the native Illustrator file formats, which you
can access by choosing File > save, save As,
or save A copy.
About PDF/X
PDF/X is a standard used for professional
printing workflows. The benefit of using
PDF/X is that the produced PDF will not
contain unnecessary information and
will not include elements that may cause
problems during output (such as RGB
images).
Choose an Adobe PDF standard from the Standard menu at the top of the Save Adobe
PDF dialog box. Currently, the most widely used standards for a print publishing work-
flow are available in two different types of PDF/X formats: PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3. For
more information on PDF/X, see the Adobe website (www.adobe.com/studio/print/psp.
html).
PDF/X is an ISO standard used for graphic content exchange and professional work-
flows.
PDF/X-1a requires that all fonts be embedded, the appropriate PDF bounding boxes
be specified, and color appears as CMYK, spot colors, or both. PDF/X-compliant files
must contain information describing the printing condition for which they are pre-
pared. You can open PDF files created with PDF/X-1a compliance in Acrobat 4.0 and
later and Acrobat Reader 4.0 and later (renamed Adobe Reader from version 6.0 on).
The main difference between PDF/X-3 or PDF/X-4 and PDF/X-1a is the use of color
management and device-independent color (CIE L*a*b, ICC-based color spaces, Cal-
RGB, and CalGray) in addition to CMYK and spot colors. PDF/X-3 allows you to use ICC
color profiles to specify color data later in the workflow at the output device. You can
open PDF files created with PDF/X-3 compliance in Acrobat 4.0 and later and Acrobat
Reader 4.0 and later. PDF/X-4 (based on PDF 1.7) supports transparencies, layers,
JPEG2000 image compression, and 16-bit images.
Saving
In FreeHand, you can save your pages as a FreeHand document, template, or
editable EPS (a file that you can both place in page layout programs and edit if
necessary). In Illustrator, you can save your work as Illustrator files or templates,
Illustrator EPS, Adobe PDF, and SVG (all of these are native formats that can
easily be reused or imported because they preserve all Illustrator data).
If you need to use the Illustrator file in an Adobe workflow, you can leave it
in the Illustrator file format (make sure that the Create PDF Compatible File
option is selected in the Save As dialog box). You will then be able to place the
file into InDesign layouts or further edit the file in Photoshop.
When saving Illustrator files as PdF, you
can also choose from several PdF/X
standards.
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