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Adobe 65057479 Setup Manual

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Creative Suite 5
Setup Guide
Including
Pantone And Color Setup
Adobe Bridge Setup
PDF Creation Using InDesign
Quality.
Democrat Printing & Lithographing Company
Service.
Flexibility.
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  • Page 1 Adobe Creative Suite 5 Setup Guide Including Pantone And Color Setup Adobe Bridge Setup PDF Creation Using InDesign Quality. Service. Flexibility. Flexibility. Value. Democrat Printing & Lithographing Company www.democratprinting.com...
  • Page 2 Adobe also tells about some of the new composition tools available to us now, “Create beautiful, sophisticated text for virtu- ally any medium with professional typography features including styles, text wrap, the Paragraph Composer, OpenType®...
  • Page 3 From the Adobe website - “What is Bridge? Adobe® Bridge CS5 software is a powerful media manager that provides centralized access to all your creative assets.” There is a host of new and enhanced features in Adobe® Bridge CS5 so be sure to visit http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/bridge/...
  • Page 4 However, since not all transparencies are created equal—some come from Quark, some from “who knows where” and some from Adobe and some have incorrect color setup (just because you are behaving and utilizing Pantone Process Colors doesn’t mean that your advertisers are paying as much attention)—we offer a fl attened output for personal preference or toubleshooting.
  • Page 5 InDesign Setup — Transparency If you choose to use Flattened Files, you’ll need the transparency Flattening Presets Sometimes the need may arise when it is desired to produce a PDF version 1.3 which would indicated that all transparency and layers are fl attened by InDesign. This is accomplished by utilizing the export parameter of DPL_IDCS5_Flatten. To aid in the fl...
  • Page 6 .joboption fi les and double-click on the job option fi le. This will launch Acrobat Distiller and install the export parameters in the entire Adobe Suite of products that are installed on the local machine. The second method is, with InDesign open, go to the File>Adobe PDF Presets>Defi ne (bottom left) and choose “Load”...
  • Page 7 InDesign Setup — Job Options Screen captures of presets for your reference.
  • Page 8 InDesign Setup — Job Options Screen captures of presets for your reference, continued. Please Note: The font subsetting percentage has changed from past settings due to RIP upgrades!
  • Page 9 There are many affordable classes where to learn more about this fantastic feature in Adobe Creative Suite 5, including In- Design. One great source, which we recommend is, www.lynda.com! Loading a Pro le Democrat Printing as created two Prefl...
  • Page 10 InDesign Tips — Which Color Book to Use and Appearance of Black Pantone—Your Best Tool For Choosing Color • What books and software am I supposed to be using? The best book to use is the Pantone Color Bridge. Purchase a Pantone Book online at www.pantone.com or contact your Account Executive for assistance.
  • Page 11 InDesign Tips — Adding Colors and Understanding Their Types Adding Colors In InDesign In the Swatches Panel, navigate to “New Color Swatch”. (Right) The “New Color Swatch” window opens (Below) Under Color Type:, change to “Spot” or “Process”. (Depending upon the printing method for this fi le.) Under Color Mode, chose the correct Pantone book or CMYK mix.
  • Page 12 InDesign Tips — Working With Page Positions for Shingling Shingling, Creep and Gutter Jumps Shingling is a term used by printers to move individual pages into the gutter to allow for what is called “Creep”. “Creep” is basically the thickness of a saddle-stitched book. If this process is new to you, just take your favorite magazine and unfold it to the center spread, then take a ruler and measure the thickness of all the pages, from the outside the cover to the center spread.
  • Page 13 InDesign Tips — Working With Page Positions for Shingling At this point in time, you can export your pages that contains the read-across as a spread or “group” the items in your page layout program. (Hint: For ease of the next step, make sure that all picture boxes/art elements/items stop at your bleed margin, i.e., -.125”) Non-Facing Pages Create a new document that is not facing pages.
  • Page 14 “legal characters” (a-z, A-Z, 0-9 “_”and “-”) Be sure to choose Adobe PDF (Print) as the format. In the Export Adobe PDF dialog box: Choose the DPL job options as your PDF Preset. Choose your page range (please only produce consecutive page ranges.) All information that was entered while making the reset is now being used.
  • Page 15 Step 4 — Check PDF’s Before you upload... Acrobat 8+ Professional has some very important tools that should be used for evaluating PDF fi les. Utilizing these tools will ensure the expected results are achieved on the fi nal page proofs for your publication. Open the PDF fi les you created using the export method and check the following: Ink Manager Very similar to InDesign’s Ink manager, you can check that...
  • Page 16 “We believe that done properly, the printed page is a pleasure to behold. At Democrat Printing that’s the only way we do it.” www.democratprinting.com Sales and Estimating Offi ces www.democratprinting.com 6401 Lindsey Road Little Rock, AR 72206 800.622.2216 toll-free Democrat Printing & Lithographing Company 501.907.7953 fax Democrat Printing and Lithographing Company...

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