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Generating PDFs

Generating PDFs

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Generating PDFs

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- [Instructor] If your printer tells you to submit a print ready PDF, they really should give you some guidance. Some printers will even send you what's called a Job Options file which you can import and invoke in your Adobe programs. But if you don't get any of that, well, let's look at what your options are and we'll pick some options that are good for successful print. We can start by going to File, Adobe PDF Presets and looking at this list. Now High Quality Print is intended for in-house printing to your Xerox or Canon or Ricoh printer. So it's not really appropriate for commercial print. Press Quality, we'll give them the name that sounds really promising, doesn't it. So let's look at that first and then we'll examine the PDF/X options but Smallest File Size, clearly not a candidate. It throws away resolution and compresses image content, it's appropriate for attaching to an email or maybe posting online. So…

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