can anyone tell me how to export a pdf please?

[Nick Minall]

Hi, Draw something, then go to open file, look down and find publish to PDF 😀 it will be grayed out if you do not have something to save (!)

[Glenn Sharp]

Hello,

Go to “file” – scroll down to “publish to PDF”

I’ve found that it helps to reduce the physical size of the image if you can or the file sizes are quite large.

[spirit]

That simple eh.

Thanks for all your help.

Is there any little things i should do before i save it as a PDF.

Do i have to save it first or anything like that.

Sorry i know i am dim but i have real trouble if i cant find something straight away.

[Shane Drew]

quote spirit:

That simple eh.

Thanks for all your help.

Is there any little things i should do before i save it as a PDF.

Do i have to save it first or anything like that.

Sorry i know i am dim but i have real trouble if i cant find something straight away.

I usually convert all text to curves before I export it, or make sure the preferences in the pdf section is ‘convert text to curves’.

That way, if your sending a file and the computer at the other end does not have the fonts, it will not substitute their own.

I always save the file first in corel draw without text converted to curves, because if they want some changes, it makes it easier.

Cheers

[Glenn Sharp]

Helen,

I suppose it depends what you want to do with the PDF,

I only use them to e-mail drawings to customers, so they don’t have to be sent at actual size

I’ve also found it helps to make the page size just slightly bigger than your image because when you create the PDF it seems to grab the page size aswell. So if your page size is much bigger than your image, when you view the PDF it has needless amounts of space around the image increasing the file size aswell. 😮

I hope that makes sense

[spirit]

Thanks Glenn for your help

Its for my Yellow Pages advert.

I will give this all a go later and fingers crossed

[Tim Painter]

Make sure you set the option correctly for where the final output will be.
ie. Litho print – I can’t remember what options 12 has but earlier versions select pre-press and I would select convert text to curves just to stop any mess ups.

Then check the PDF after and print a copy yourself.

How many colours are you having in the advert?

Tim.

[Alan Drury]

Ensure all colours are cmyk if colour or black. Converting to curves can be from an option on the publish to pdf dialogue box, this is particlarly impotant as there are some font kerning issues. Photgraphs should be 300dpi finished size. If you intend to do alot of pdf work ie for customer approval I would go for Acrobat or the mush cheaper Jaws pdf creator – more reliable, more flexible and available to all your other Windows programmes. I do adverts for YP and they will also take a Postscript file same basic rules apply.
Alan