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Adobe® Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
What This Guide Is Intended to Do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
How This Guide Is Structured . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Partner Program for Print Professionals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Chapter 1: Common Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The Adobe PDF Print Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Adobe Graphics Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Color Blindness Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
PDF Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Helping Customers Prepare Files for Submission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Chapter 2: Adobe InDesign CS4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Preparing InDesign Documents for Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
About InDesign Program Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Text Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Rotated Spread Viewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Using the InDesign forensic tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Finding Problems: Additional Forensic Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Color Management Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Working with a book file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Creating PDF Files from InDesign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Printing from InDesign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Helping Customers Prepare InDesign Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Chapter 3: Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
General Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Appropriate Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Printing from Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    Chapter 3: Adobe Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop CS4 Extended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
  • Page 2 Links to known issues and resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137 Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...

  • Page 3: Introduction

    Adobe Photoshop® CS4, Adobe InDesign® CS4, and TABLE OF CONTENTS Adobe Illustrator® CS4, as well as the capabilities of Acrobat® 9 Pro, printers need to Introduction take a rather different approach. You might call it “reverse engineering”: inspecting, Chapter 1: Common Resources analyzing, and, if necessary, modifying customer files to facilitate printing.

  • Page 4: Partner Program For Print Professionals

    (such as opacity, blending modes, or vector content) will print from InDesign. Because an Adobe PDF is often the final product of the job, Acrobat wraps up this guide. You’ll find advice for generating PDFs in the “Common Resources” chapter, with additional applica- tion-specific information in sections on individual applications.

  • Page 5: Chapter 1: Common Resources

    The Adobe PDF Print Engine The Adobe PDF Print Engine is not a shrink-wrapped product. It is a printing platform based on PDF and other Adobe core technologies. OEM RIPs and workflow systems incorporating the PDF Print Engine can process PDF files natively (without converting data to PostScript® or a proprietary intermediate format), thus maintaining live transparency.
  • Page 6 Whether you are generating PDFs from Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, or through Distiller, the categories of PDF settings are the same. These settings are found in the Export Adobe PDF dialog (InDesign), the Save As dialog (Illustrator and Photoshop), and under Edit PDF Settings (Distiller).
  • Page 7 Although Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop and Distiller correctly embed fonts in PDF files, some non-Adobe applications may not. Additionally, some fonts can- not be embedded in PDFs because of vendor licensing restrictions. It is advised that you never create a PDF without embedding or subsetting fonts.
  • Page 8 • Color Images: Bicubic downsampling to 150ppi; Compression = Automatic (JPEG); Image Quality = Medium. • Grayscale Images: Bicubic downsampling to 150ppi; Compression = Automatic (JPEG); Image Quality = Medium. • Output: Destination = sRGB IEC61966-2.1. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 9 ArtBox or TrimBox must be internally defined in the file; fonts must be embedded and/or subset. Acrobat 4.0 compatibility dictates that transparency is flattened (ideally, at the high-quality resolution Settings include: • Compatibility: Acrobat 4.0 (PDF 1.3). Transparency will be flattened. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 10 RIP or other processes (such as trapping and imposition) that will handle PDFs (RIPs using the Adobe PDF Print Engine can correctly process PDF/X-4 files). Settings include: • Compatibility: Acrobat 5.0 (PDF 1.4). Live transparency is maintained. (Note that, while the official PDF/X-4 specification allows Acrobat 7.0 [PDF 1.6] compatibility,...

  • Page 11: Helping Customers Prepare Files For Submission

    PDF options. These options are a function of the operating system, and do not invoke Distiller or any other Adobe process. The Save as PDF function is an Apple operating system capability, and does not provide flexible control over color handling, nor have any options for font embedding (although embeddable fonts are embedded and subset by this process).

  • Page 12: Transparency

    Print workflows which utilize the Adobe PDF Print Engine can maintain live transparency effects all the way through to final rendering. This provides a high degree of confidence that the printed jobs will reproduce with a high degree of fidelity to the designer’s intent.
  • Page 13 PDF/X-4 that supports live transparency, if your workflow supports such PDF files. • Use the Overprint Preview in Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat 9 Pro, and Adobe Reader to check the interactions of objects using blending modes. Activating Overprint Preview in these components generates a more realistic display of art- work, providing the opportunity to catch objects that may image differently from the way they appear when viewed in the normal, composite view.
  • Page 14 Keep in mind that, even if you choose to turn off color management in Adobe applications (note that you cannot turn off color management in Acrobat 9 Pro), color management is still being performed by your operating system to govern monitor display and printing.
  • Page 15 Illustrator, InDesign, or Photoshop. Navigate to the .csf file you want to load and select it. Once the color setting is imported into one of the applications, you will need to synchronize settings so that the other components can access them. The easiest way to do that is to use Adobe Bridge CS4. Here’s how: 1.
  • Page 16 For more information on color management options for printing and saving PDFs, consult the Help files for each Creative Suite 4 component. For more information on color management in Adobe products, see the self-help guide, available here: http://www.adobe.com/studio/print/pdfs/CS3_color_workflows.pdf...
  • Page 17 OpenType fonts coexist peacefully with PostScript Type 1 and TrueType fonts without conflict. Adobe OpenType fonts have distinct names (such as Helvetica LT Std or Adobe Garamond Pro) that prevent font conflicts and allow easy identification in font listings. You should have no imag- ing issues whatsoever with OpenType fonts, regardless of the font vendor.

  • Page 18: Chapter 2: Adobe Indesign Cs4

    Chapter 2: Adobe InDesign CS4 For most designers and service providers, InDesign is the cornerstone of Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium and Standard. The advanced layout and output capabilities in InDesign expand creative freedom and streamline production workflows. InDesign CS4 includes many new features to enhance productivity, both for designers and print service providers.

  • Page 19: Preparing Indesign Documents For Output

    • Kuler panel: Easy access to the Adobe Kuler online community, so you can experi- ment with color harmony rules, and create, save, and download color themes, auto- matically adding them to the Swatches panel.
  • Page 20 It’s better to manage, examine, and edit colors when they are saved as swatches. To find colors used in the document that are not designated as named swatches, choose Add Unnamed Colors from the Swatches panel menu. InDesign then finds all colors and adds them to the Swatches Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 21 Ink Manager dialog, and choose the appropriate plate from the Ink Alias pop-up menu. You can also use a process plate as the target ink, but you cannot map a process plate to a spot ink. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...

  • Page 22: About Indesign Program Versions

    Click the Find First button to navigate to the first use of the font in the document. (The Find Font dialog box is available at any time by choosing Type > Find Font.) Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 23 Roman,and the Basic Paragraph style on Mac OS uses Times Regular, this message may appear when you open a InDesign Mac document on a PC (left), or a PC InDesign document on the Mac (right) . Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 24 InDesign file, the Links panel has been greatly enhanced in CS4 to provide detailed information about linked and embedded graphics. Common functions, such as relinking graphics, are also easier to perform with the new interface. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 25 Show Column, you will have to widen the display of the Links panel to view all the columns. By default, the most commonly needed options are displayed in columns in the main window of the Links panel, and the remainder are displayed in a list in the Info panel. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 26 Select the names of all the missing links in the Links panel, and then choose Relink to Folder from the Links panel menu. Navigate to the folder containing the correct files , and click the Choose button. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 27 (such as cropping, rotation, and scaling) when relinking, but if your scans are not identical in origin or dimensions to the designer’s desktop scans, the position and scale of the images will likely be incorrect. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 28 . Select the link in the panel, and choose Unembed File from the panel menu . Click No in the dialog box that appears (right) . Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 29 InDesign; files with layer overrides output as they appear on screen. Graphics governed by Object Layer are indicated in the Links panel with a “Yes” in the Layer Overrides column, followed by a number indicating how many layers are affected. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 30 Reading these file types as images yields another benefit: Photoshop EPS files can be color-managed if an ICC profile was embedded. For an EPS or DCS file to benefit from these enhancements in Adobe InDesign CS4, the file must meet the following requirements: • The file must be created by Photoshop.
  • Page 31 InDesign. This could wreak havoc if changed formatting is subsequently overlooked. Customers who are prone to frequent or late-stage text editing should consider using an InCopy workflow instead. For more information on InCopy, see the InCopy product page on the Adobe website: http://www.adobe.com/products/incopy. InDesign Files as artwork InDesign files—even multipage documents—can now be used as artwork;...

  • Page 32: Text Features

    In most circumstances, you would wish to avoid printing conditional text indicators, except possibly for proofreading and identification purposes on proof output. To control the visibility and printability of conditional text indicators, use the options in the Indicators pop-up menu in the Conditional Text panel. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 33 (Type > Text Variables > Convert Variable to Text) and edit the converted text. Note that plain text will no longer be changed if the variable definition is edited. There are nine types of variables: Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...

  • Page 34: Rotated Spread Viewing

    (90 degrees clockwise, 90 degrees counter-clockwise, or 180 degrees). To clear the rotation, choose Rotate Spread View from the Pages panel menu, and select the Clear Rotation option. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...

  • Page 35: Using The Indesign Forensic Tools

    You can set up very granular controls as part of a custom preflight profile. To activate a control, click the checkbox by the control (such as Links or Color), then click the disclosure triangle next to the control name to change settings. The controls include: Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 36 • Dynamic Spelling Detects Errors: Checks for occurrences of words flagged by Dynamic Spelling. However, you must search for the telltale red zig-zag underline indicating misspelled words (Dynamic Spelling must be enabled). Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...

  • Page 37: Finding Problems: Additional Forensic Tools

    Separations Preview is in effect. Adobe InDesign can preview separations by displaying any combination of the inks defined in the document, such as the cyan plate and the magenta plate. The results display using high- resolution screen display engine in InDesign to more realistically represent conditions such as overprinting, RGB-to-CMYK conversion, and spot color interactions with transparency.
  • Page 38 (see the previous “Using the Ink Manager” in this section). Both of these options are available in the Ink Manager on the Separations Preview panel menu. • You can’t preview the overprinting effects of built-in trapping or Adobe In-RIP Trapping. Separations Preview displays only the effects of overprints applied manu- ally through the Attributes panel.
  • Page 39 LW objects differently because it indicates which parts will appear on the CT page as a result of flattening. It also highlights objects that will be rasterized when the Raster/Vector Balance uses a value less than 100. If many areas are highlighted, you Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 40 The object and its shadow must be on separate layers in Photoshop to be able to use this workaround: Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...

  • Page 41: Color Management Issues

    If you frequently encounter alerts indicating missing or mismatched profiles, provide customers with the color settings in use at your shop and have them use Adobe Bridge to synchronize them across their workgroup. Some color settings files, such as the North American General Purpose 2, are configured to preserve CMYK numbers and convert RGB without displaying mismatch warnings.
  • Page 42 InDesign CS4 document. At any time you can use the Info panel to identify the color profile of a selected image. See the “Common Resources” chapter for more information about color management in Creative Suite 4. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...

  • Page 43: Working With A Book File

    Working with a book file Adobe InDesign CS4 can organize and manage sets of InDesign files in a book file—a binder that governs a collection of documents—to dynamically share attributes and formats. For example, a reference book with 10 chapters can be created as 10 InDesign files that exist separately, but are managed by the book file for pagination, indexing, and other operations.

  • Page 44: Creating Pdf Files From Indesign

    Acrobat 4.0 and earlier). If your workflow supports live transparency (for example, if your RIP implements the Adobe PDF Print Engine), it’s preferable to keep transparency live through- out the job’s life cycle. Keeping transparency live means using native files as support art when creating PDFs containing live transparency and not prematurely flattening transparency.

  • Page 45: Printing From Indesign

    6. Click OK to save the PDF preset 7. To save the PDF preset as a file for another workstation or a customer, choose File > Adobe PDF Presets > Define, select the preset in the list, and click the Save As button. Give the preset a brief name (InDesign adds the extension .joboptions to the name), and save the preset.
  • Page 46 PostScript File from the Printer menu, and then select the desired target PPD from the PPD pop-up menu. (Usually it’s best to use Adobe PDF as the target when generat- ing PostScript you intend to process through Adobe Distiller.)
  • Page 47 You can also choose to print all layers, only the visible layers, or only the layers which are both visible and printable. General Options Control number of copies and page range, as well as printable/non-printable elements such as layers, non-printing objects, blank pages, and guides . Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 48 (or in-RIP separations) . Choose Simulate Overprint to simulate the appearance of overprinted objects . The Ink Manager button launches the Ink Manager for remapping spot colors as necessary . Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 49 . Any content tagged with a profile that differs from the target device will be converted, however . Hover over each option to read helpful information in the Description area at the bottom of the dialog box . Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 50 If the number of pages can’t be evenly divided by the number of pages in a signature, InDesign adds blank pages to the end of the document. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 51 The Preview panel allows you to view the arrangement of imposed pages, for checking crossover art, page order, creep settings, marks, and bleed. The Messages and Warning areas inform you of any problems, or whether blank pages had to be added to complete signatures. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...

  • Page 52: Helping Customers Prepare Indesign Files

    . Helping Customers Prepare InDesign Files When it’s time for final printed output, it is easier than ever for a customer to locate an Adobe InDesign prepress service provider. The widespread acceptance of Adobe InDesign by prepress service providers results from a long and proven record of reliable, consistent output and a deep set of tools specifically geared to identify and resolve prepress issues before printing.
  • Page 53 Preparing files containing transparency For a detailed resource on imaging files containing transparency, see “Transparency in Adobe Applications: A Print Production Guide” (http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_transparency_print_en). The transparency guide is useful for you as a print service provider, and can also serve as a very helpful reference for your customers as they prepare their files.
  • Page 54 Resolve any remaining issues (such as missing fonts or graphics), and click the Package button. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 55 InDesign document layers that are hidden. This option is turned off by default, meaning that Adobe InDesign CS4 only includes content on layers that are visible at the time the document is packaged. This option is not selected by default;...
  • Page 56 There are many sources of information about InDesign. The following is not an exhaustive list but rather a selection of websites that may be of use to you and your customers: InDesign Secrets: http://www.indesignsecrets.com InDesign User Groups: http://www.indesignusergroup.com Knowledgebase: http://www.adobe.com/support/indesign Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...

  • Page 57: Chapter 3: Adobe Photoshop Cs4 And Photoshop Cs4 Extended

    3D object into a video display zone. The integration between Photoshop and the other Creative Suite 4 components enables you and your customers to take advantage of the flexibility afforded by the native Photoshop format. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...

  • Page 58: General Guidelines

    Scanning an image at 300 ppi, but at a size of 2 x 3 inches, with the intention of scaling up the image to the correct final size of 5 x 7 inches (either in Photoshop or in a page layout program), will compromise detail after resizing. Photoshop can interpolate information, but this results in Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 59 The scaling options include six methods for resampling, and even offers parenthetical hints about suitable uses for the methods: • Nearest Neighbor (Preserve Hard Edges): Appropriate when resizing screen shots (to avoid anti-aliasing small text), but inappropriate for photographic images. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 60 All Creative Suite 4 products the Resample Image option and set the resolution fully support a color-managed workflow, and Adobe Bridge can synchronize color settings across or dimensions . The dimensions and resolution are interrelated, so the file size of the image does not all the programs in Creative Suite 4 for consistency.
  • Page 61 5. Type a name for the custom CMYK separation recipe (or accept the name that Photoshop generates for you), and click OK. This returns you to the Color Settings dialog box. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 62 Black & White adjustment does not actually convert the image to grayscale. Not Truly Grayscale While this image appears to be black-only, the title bar of the document tells the truth; it’s actually RGB . Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...

  • Page 63: Appropriate Formats

    Photoshop files to something more familiar in order to image a job successfully. In a full Adobe Creative Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 64 While most Photoshop images are composed solely of pixels, Photoshop also supports the inclusion of vector information. Vector text, vector-based Shape layers, vector masks, and Smart Objects can coexist with pixels in a Photoshop file. Such content remains editable throughout Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 65 Vector Masks: Very similar to Layer Masks, Vector Masks are created with vector tools such as the Pen tool. After a vector shape is created, the user chooses Layer > Vector Mask > Current Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 66 But it’s not necessary (or advisable) for you to make a decision about appropriate flatness settings for clipping paths. When designating a path as a clipping path, leave the field Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 67 SKY and WETSUIT can be edited, but new texture layers cannot be added . is written back into the 3D file, updating its appearance, or just click back in the parent file. You can also paint directly on a 3D object. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 68 Smart Filters. TIFF files are often larger than native Photoshop files with the same layer content, but because more applications support the format, they are also more usable outside an all-Adobe workflow. However, some non-Adobe applications may not support layered TIFF files.
  • Page 69 When placed into InDesign or Illustrator documents, DCS files of either version are correctly printed and exported, whether you choose separated or composite output; the constituent colors are combined in the outgoing print or export. Non-Adobe applications usually require that you generate separated output to correctly print DCS files.
  • Page 70 Photoshop PDF is the best format for images containing vector content: the file can be reopened for editing in Photoshop without rasterizing the vector content, and the PDF “wrapper” ensures that page layout programs and other applications will render the vector content as crisp, vector edges without pixelation. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...

  • Page 71: Printing From Photoshop

    Because the saved file has a .pdf file extension, double-clicking the file to open it launches Adobe Acrobat, not Photoshop. Using the InDesign Edit Original function also opens the file in Acrobat. To edit such files in Photoshop instead, launch Photoshop and then choose File > Open to open the file.

  • Page 72: Output Options

    Photoshop or when you save the file in EPS format and print to a PostScript printer. Generally, it’s best to adjust for dot gain using the settings in the Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 73 It’s very impor- tant to avoid “double color management” when using this option; make sure that you turn off any color compensation at the printer (address this in the print driver dialog Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 74 Clicking Print in the print driver dialog box sends image data to the target printer. For more information, see http://www.adobe.com/go/ps_support. To search, type appropriate terms in the Search For field, select other Search options, and then click the Search button.

  • Page 75: Chapter 4: Adobe Illustrator Cs4

    Chapter 4: Adobe Illustrator CS4 Over its product life, Adobe Illustrator has evolved from a sturdy vector-drawing program for creating logos and illustrations to a full-featured creative environment with painterly brushes, soft-edged effects, and 3-dimensional design tools. Illustrator is used predominantly to create artwork that will be placed into another application, such as InDesign, but many artists work exclusively in Illustrator to create final artwork, especially in packaging environments.

  • Page 76: Bleed

    While this does not mean that Illustrator is now a page layout application (for example, there is no provision for master pages or automatic page numbering, as in InDesign), it provides the ability to hold multi- Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 77 Page Tiles, you are given the option to create Artboards from crop areas, page tiles, artwork bounding boxes, and the original legacy artboard. If you open a legacy file with no page tiles or crop areas defined, the original legacy artboard becomes a single artboard in the converted Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...

  • Page 78: Working With Text From Different Versions Of Illustrator

    Illustrator prior to CS . It is recommended that you click OK . You are presented with three choices: Update, Cancel, and OK. Adobe recommends that you don’t click the Update button in this alert; text may reflow, but you won’t have the opportunity to view “before and after”...
  • Page 79 While point text will print as intended, it is difficult to edit point text without impairing spacing and text position. Keep a copy of the file in Illustrator CS4, in case further edits are required before the end of the job. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...

  • Page 80: Document Color Modes

    When a user chooses File > New to begin creating an Illustrator file, the option to choose a color each Artboard to a separate Illustrator file . mode may not be obvious; you must click the Advanced triangle to reveal options for document Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 81 View > Proof Setup, selecting a preset, and turning on Proof Colors. Pixel preview If the Illustrator artwork will be exported for web or mobile-device use, you may wish to preview the outcome for optimum results. Artwork exported for these environments is rasterized at 72 Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...

  • Page 82: Live Effects

    The option to retain spot color is hidden in the initial view of the 3D Options dialog box. To access the spot-color option, click the More Options button in the 3D dialog box. Controls for lighting and spot-color preservation are displayed at the bottom of the dialog box. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 83 If you must expand a 3D object, it is recom- mended that you work on a copy of the file, and keep an unedited original as insurance. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 84 (higher in stacking order). Select the top object and the object you wish to distort, and Illustrator will distort the object using the top object as a guide. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 85 For example, the visual order of strokes can be changed so that strokes fall in front of or behind the object’s fill, and the order of strokes can be changed to modify the appearance of the object. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 86 Drop Shadow effect applied it is now possible to edit the Drop Shadow for them all. To make this more powerful Adobe has added a new option under the Select menu: Select > Same > Appearance Attribute. For example, if you want to edit the settings for all the objects with Gaussian Blur in a file, select an object with Gaussian Blur applied, show the Appearance Panel, highlight the Gaussian Blur attribute, and choose Select >...
  • Page 87 This can be a result of selecting the path and choosing Object > Hide Selection, or clicking the eyeball visibility icon next to a sublayer in the Layers panel. Each sublayer represents a single path or object in the document. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...

  • Page 88: Examining Customer Files

    This means that the font information in an Illustrator file is available to ensure correct display and printing of the file when it is placed into other applications. For example, an Illustrator file placed into an InDesign page will print correctly, even though you Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 89 (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) and choose Edit Image from the context menu that appears. Adobe Photoshop opens the image for editing. 4. In Photoshop, perform the necessary edits on the image. Although the TouchUp method is intended to allow you to write an edited image back into a PDF, you can choose Save As to save the image on disk for use in other applications.

  • Page 90: Forensic Tools

    File > Print, by exporting to the Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) format, or by saving the file as a PDF compatible with Acrobat 4.0 or earlier. The Flattener Preview won’t show overprint- ing, as Overprint Preview does, nor is it intended to realistically display final color. Its purpose Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...

  • Page 91: Printing From Illustrator

    To tile artboards, you must print them one at a time. Enter the number of the artboard in the Range field, and choose the Tile option. You can numerically specify position in the Placement X/Y fields, or drag the thumbnail in the preview window to position the artwork relative to tiles. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...

  • Page 92: Print Options

    • Output: Select composite or separated output; also choose in-RIP separations, and specify which colors are output when printing separations. • Graphics: Set path flatness, font downloading, and PostScript level. If necessary, you can choose Compatible Gradient and Gradient Mesh Printing to convert meshes and Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 93 You can, however, click the link icon to unlink the fields, and enter different values if necessary. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...

  • Page 94: Creating Pdf Files

    Distiller. To create a PDF from an Illustrator file, choose File > Save As and choose Adobe PDF for the format. The options you choose depend on the ultimate purpose of the PDF. For example, a PDF to be used for customer reviews can contain lower-resolution image content than a PDF intended to be submitted to a RIP.

  • Page 95: Opening Illustrator Pdf Files In Illustrator

    PDF containing three different size pages. Opening Illustrator PDF Files in Illustrator Adobe PDF files created from Illustrator, and saved with the Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities option checked, can be safely opened in Illustrator because the Illustrator file itself is embedded in the PDF.
  • Page 96 Acrobat 9 Pro, it is best to ask your customer to make the edits and supply a corrected PDF. For more information, see http://www.adobe.com/go/ai_support. To search, type appropriate terms in the Search For field, select other Search options, and then click the Search button.

  • Page 97: Chapter 5: Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro

    Chapter 5: Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro There are many ways to create PDFs, aside from creating them from within Adobe Creative Suite 4 components, as described in the ”Common Resources” chapter of this guide. For example, when Adobe Acrobat is installed on a Windows system, Microsoft Office applications such as Word and PowerPoint®...

  • Page 98: Examining Pdfs

    • Enhanced collaboration features, including access to free screen sharing and file hosting via Acrobat.com and ConnectNow service. • Support for preparing files for use in workflows using the Adobe PDF Print Engine 2, which adds support for digital printers and variable data printing (VDP).

  • Page 99: Overprint Preview In Acrobat 9 Pro

    In previous versions, users had to manually invoke Overprint Preview, but Acrobat 9 Pro takes a different approach. There is no longer a menu item to control overprint display; instead, Preferences and the Output Preview panel control when Overprint Preview is activated. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...

  • Page 100: Acrobat 9 Pro Print Production Tools

    Output Preview panel (Advanced > Print Production > Output Preview). Note that Adobe Reader 9 offers the same choices in Preferences; advise your customers to download the current version of the free Reader so they can view Overprint in their own PDFs to check for problems before they submit a file for printing.
  • Page 101 Other options let you trap images internally and trap 1-bit images to other objects . Applying these presets establishes trap parameters . Traps are generated only when PostScript from Acrobat is processed by a RIP using Adobe In-RIP trapping . Output Preview Output Preview in Acrobat selectively shows, hides, and highlights objects on screen accord- ing to choices made in the Output Preview dialog box.
  • Page 102 See all inks used in the file at a glance . View color values with a “rolling densitometer” as you move the pointer on screen . Note the new Total Area Coverage value displayed . Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 103 Overprinting, such as black text overprinting a color area, is not neces- sarily a problem. But in the example document, the white logo at the lower right will disappear during imaging because it is set to overprint. This will have to be fixed before output. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 104 Preview in the Output Preview panel, and click anywhere in the displayed PDF. The Object Inspector window displays available information for the cursor position. If you click on an image, resolution, color space, dimensions, and rendering intent are listed. If you click on a filled Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 105 Select the specific settings for the conversion, and click Continue to finish the conversion. New Standards Options in Preflight You can now choose to convert an existing PDF to a standards-compliant file . Choose from PDF/X, PDF/A, or PDF/E . Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 106 You can also click the Further Options triangle at the bottom of the panel, to specify whether to run the preflight check just for visible layers, or to limit the pre- flight to just a range of pages. 4. Click Analyze or Analyze and Fix. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 107 Embed Audit Trail from the Preflight panel. This provides a method for checking the document at later stages of the workflow, to ensure that nothing has been altered since the preflight was performed. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 108 Illustrator or Photoshop file: they enable you to selectively view components of a PDF, regardless of actually visual stacking order. For more information on creating, viewing, and printing PDF layers, see Acrobat 9 Pro Help, available under the Help menu. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 109 Make any other changes to the profile; choose Locked to prevent accidental changes. Click Summary in the left pane to see a summary of the errors that the profile will identify. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 7 Click OK. Acrobat adds the new profile to the list.
  • Page 110 To use a droplet, just drag a PDF file (or multiple PDF files) onto the Droplet icon ( ). Acrobat preflights the PDF files, generates reports, and moves or copies the processed files you specified. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...

  • Page 111: Comparing Documents

    Click on a highlighted area, and Acrobat displays a “difference” image that may make it easier to pinpoint the changes. The Compare Documents result is a PDF, and can be saved and reviewed with the job at any time. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...

  • Page 112: Editing Pdf Files

    Properties from the context menu that appears. If you do not own the font, ask the customer to make the edits in the original application file (page layout or illustration program), and then send you a new, corrected PDF. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 113 TouchUp Object tool, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) , and choose Properties from the context menu. Click the Color tab, and select an option from the Convert To pop-up menu. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 114 TouchUp Object tool, and right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) to choose Edit Image from the context menu that appears. If it isn’t already running, Adobe Photoshop CS4 launches; it opens the image for editing. The image that appears is not the original image, per se, but it represents the actual image information as contained within the PDF—not resampled or...
  • Page 115 PDFs to ensure that no unintended changes have occurred. Adobe does not recommend that you attempt to edit PDFs outside of Acrobat, however. For example, while Illustrator will open a PDF, it is intended to open only PDFs that were created by Illustrator.
  • Page 116 If they are converted, Acrobat uses the device-independent object’s embedded profile information. • Objects set in spot colors (including Separation, DeviceN, and NChannel color spaces) can be preserved, converted, or mapped (aliased) to any other ink present Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 117 Output Preview dialog box. Using the Ink Manager Acrobat 9 Pro includes Ink Manager functions similar to the Ink Manager in Adobe InDesign CS4, but there are important differences between the two applications. In Acrobat, you have the...
  • Page 118 Layers panel. If you deselect this option, Acrobat embeds the printer marks in the file itself, without creating a new layer. If there’s not enough room to display marks, a message alerts you that marks overlap the page. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 119 • Change Page Size: Enables you to extend the dimensions of the pages in the PDF. This is much like the Canvas function in Adobe Photoshop CS4—think of it as the opposite of cropping. You can only increase the page dimensions, however; you can’t reduce the dimensions.
  • Page 120 Crop Pages dialog box. Cropping is nondestructive: it affects only display and print, but does not eliminate any content. Later, you can change the cropping specifications or return to the bound- aries of the original document. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 121 When you run the Fixup by clicking the Fix button in the Preflight dialog, you’ll be prompted for a new file name, because this Fixup will permanently alter the file, deleting all content outside the newly-defined trim and resetting the trim definition as you have specified. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...

  • Page 122: Previewing And Flattening Transparency

    (for example, EPS, JPEG, and PDF 1.3). Transparency has already been flattened in any PDF file that was created by converting a PostScript file in Distiller, but Adobe Creative Suite 4 applications can export PDF files with live transparency.
  • Page 123 RIP is set up to handle overprinting properly. Adobe recommends flattening transparency only when you are ready to print a PDF file, unless you need to flatten the PDF file earlier because of the requirements of your RIP or other aspects of your workflow.
  • Page 124 • While it is recommended that you apply flattening at print time, your workflow may require flattened PDFs. If so, make a copy of the file, then click Apply to flatten the PDF using the selected settings. When you save the file, these changes are permanent. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 125 You may be able to reduce the file size of a PDF file simply by using the Save As command. This command rewrites the file, removes duplicated or unnecessary information, and does not require you to regenerate the PDF file from the source file. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 126 JBIG2 compression, which provides both lossy and lossless modes of compression. 4. Select Fonts in the left pane of the dialog box, to choose whether to unembed fonts to reduce file size. However, for high-end printing, Adobe recommends embedding all fonts. Check to make sure the font supplier allows embedding.

  • Page 127: Using The Job Definition Format (Jdf)

    Definition Format (JDF) provides a streamlined way to create an efficient, automated workflow based on Adobe PDF. The features in Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro enable you and your customers to cre- ate JDF files on the desktop to preserve information that can be used later in the workflow.
  • Page 128 You can add or modify media settings at any point during the production cycle. Media Manager You can specify settings for media to be used in the job, and these settings will be incorporated into the JDF definition you create . Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...
  • Page 129 Then Acrobat packages the file and submits it as a MIME file or uploads it to the location specified in the Submission Setup dialog box. For more information, see the JDF white paper at http://www.adobe.com/products/jdf. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide...

  • Page 130: Using Comment And Review Features In Acrobat 9 Pro

    Then use PDF Optimizer to create a smaller copy of the file that you can e-mail to your customer (see “Using PDF Optimizer to optimize files for print” in this chapter). Enable the PDF file for review in Adobe Reader 7, 8 or 9, so that your customer will have commenting and drawing tools available.
  • Page 131 Comments to add to the shared review. E-mail-based review To send a file for E-mail Review to Adobe Reader 7, 8, or 9 users, choose Comments > Attach for E-mail Review in Acrobat 9 Pro. Acrobat opens the Send By E-mail For Review wizard. Follow...
  • Page 132 1. Choose File > Collaborate > Send & Collaborate Live. The Acrobat.com screen is displayed; click the Next button. 2. Sign in with your Adobe ID and click Sign In. If you don’t yet have an Adobe ID, click the Cre- ate Adobe ID hyperlink to create one.
  • Page 133 1. Participants can click the meeting URL in the e-mail invitation, or type the Meeting URL in the address box of a browser. 2. Participants enter their Adobe ID and password, or log in as a guest if they do not have an Adobe ID.

  • Page 134: Printing Pdf Files

    Printing PDF Files Most of the options in the Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Advanced Print Setup dialog box are the same as for other Adobe applications. When you’re ready to print the document, the Acrobat 9 Pro Print dialog box contains the settings you need to ensure successful output. However, you should first set up the document’s pages correctly for your requirements and processes.
  • Page 135 If you are outputting separations, click the printer icon to the left of an ink name to suppress printing for that color. In Composite mode, select the option to Simulate Overprinting to more realistically render overprinting attributes, if you are printing to a device that does not natively support overprint.
  • Page 136 Because so many advanced printing features depend on the PPD for information, it’s important to set up the correct PPD before you print. For best printing results, Adobe recommends that you obtain the latest version of the PPD file for your output device from the manufacturer. Be sure to store PPDs in the location specified by the operating system.
  • Page 137 • Emit Flatness: Uses the currently chosen flattener setting. • Emit PS Form Objects: Generates PostScript form objects for Form XObjects within the PDF file. This option may reduce the overall size of the print job, but it will increase the printer memory required. Form XObjects are used to create a single description for complex objects, such as background objects, that can appear many times in a single document.
  • Page 138 Layers Acrobat 6 .0 and later support layers . Both InDesign and Illustrator can create layered PDF files, which can be useful for managing multiple versions of content . Click the eyeball icon to control the visibility of a layer, and check the layer options to control printing of layers .

  • Page 139: Links To Known Issues And Resources

    Partner Program for Print Professionals: http://www.adobe.com/go/printserviceprovider. Find out about the wide range of ben- efits, including technical support, software, and promotional assistance Adobe has to offer print and pre-press professionals. Adobe Systems Incorporated 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110-2704 USA www.adobe.com...

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