What PDF style do I save in for Printing?

[Richard Urquhart]

I did use corel for a while and when I saved the doc i used publish to prepress which work fine every time

just copied this
New prepress options for publishing to PDF allow users to add crop marks, calibration bars, densitometer scales, and registration marks to PDF files. Users can also embed an ICC color profile, author and keyword information, and any type of file into a PDF file. If symbols are used in a document, they will be supported in the PDF file also. Additionally, users have the option to publish multiple open files to a single multi-page PDF file. The following tabs are provided in the PDF export settings and provide a variety of user-definable options when publishing to PDF using

[Adrian Yeo]

cheers richard

I will give that a bash! 😀

[Simon.James]

HI adrian

the best one to use is pre-press

see if you can go into advance settings and create all text to curves, as this will do away with any font issues.

if there is a lot of large sized file pictures involved you can also set the compression to

colour down sample to 300 dpi

monochrome down sample to 300 dpi

and bit map (fonts etc) down sample to 1800 dpi.

re-save the setting to print ( and use this one every time)

and this will give you tiny files without any comprimise on the quality.

Good tip if you are sending pdf,s out to clients set the security in preference to read only, this will stop you spending 5 hours on design on for someone else down the road to print cheaper, all becuase you have done for design for them all for nothing..

what rip are you using to run out, you need a level 3 rip

cheers

Simon

[Simon.James]

APS told me today that B&P Light brigade shut there doors last Friday, has anybody else heared this ?

Simon

[Adrian Yeo]

Simon

Thanks for that. I am using Troop to rip with.

As for B&P, there is a thread somewhere in idle chat, believe they are still trading but red lights are flashing! 😀

[John Gregson]

Hi Simon, I’m using coreldraw12 and do send a lot of pdf’s out for proofing – could you please explain how to set up the pdf as a read only file as i’ve looked and can’t find it.

Cheers John

[Peter Munday]

I didn’t realise you could print and cut from a pdf I thought that to cut you had to use eps?

[Stephen Morriss]

Peter you can def cut from pdf’s.
I have a customer who is a sign maker and he does his files in Signlabs, he adds the cut line in and sends a pdf file for me to use straight off.

Steve

[Richard Urquhart]

We too print and cut from PDF Files

[Richard Urquhart]

Just one note not always a good idea to send this type of PDF to a customer I always re save so they cant pass on the art work in a cut file .
Rich

[John Harding]

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Just one note not always a good idea to send this type of PDF to a customer I always re save so they cant pass on the art work in a cut file .
Rich

isnt that what Simon said 😀 😀 😀

[Richard Urquhart]

OK OK didnt read the page before sorry John if only you took that amount of time getting your art work correct !!!!!!
need I say more xxxxx

[Warren Beard]

Even if the design is password protected there are easy ways around this, I found the best way to proof is turn the vector artwork in to a jpeg (if you send artwork before deposit that is 😉 ) Then at least if they do get past your password they can’t use your vector images.