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Adobe Creative Suite 5 Printing Guide 1

Introduction

Welcome to the Adobe® Creative Suite® 5/5.5 Printing Guide. Adobe is

dedicated to providing software that allows designers to express their

visual ideas, while providing tools and resources to printers to ensure

that those ideas print as intended. While designers explore the creative

features of Adobe Photoshop® CS5, Adobe InDesign® CS5/5.5, and

Adobe Illustrator® CS5, as well as the capabilities of Acrobat® X Pro,

printers need to take a rather different approach. You might call it

“reverse engineering” inspecting, analyzing, and, if necessary,

modifying customer files to facilitate printing. While this document is

focused on the needs and requirements of printers, it is also useful for

production artists who are preparing files for print.

Some modifications (for example, replacing solid black areas with a rich

black build, or converting RGB text to black-only) are dictated by the

physical requirements of printing. Some tweaks may be necessary to

accommodate a particular raster image processor (RIP) or imaging

device. Not all workflows are the same, and solutions vary accordingly.

Regardless of your particular workflow, the more you know about the

tools used by designers to create files, the better equipped you are to

anticipate, prevent, find, and fix problems. In addition, you’ll be better

able to advise your customers as they prepare files for submission.

A CS5.5

Creative Suite 5.5 is a mid-cycle update to the Suite, which includes the

most current updates to applications, including substantial additions to

InDesign (e.g., improved ePub export, and the inclusion of the Digital

Publishing Suite tools), as well as Acrobat X. InDesign CS5.5 files cannot

be opened directly in InDesign CS5. Instead, you must export InDesign

Markup Language (IDML) from InDesign CS5.5 to be opened in

InDesign CS5. There are no feature changes to Illustrator or Photoshop.

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This guide serves as both a detailed technical reference for handling

Creative Suite 5/5.5 files from your customers, and as a training tool for

your staff.

For example, this guide will introduce you to forensic tools, such as the

Overprint Preview option in Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat X Pro, as

well as the Output Preview function in Acrobat, all of which are

invaluable in highlighting potential problems. The earlier you can

pinpoint problems in a job, the less expensive and complicated they are

to rectify.

As RIPs have matured, there are fewer issues with jobs containing

transparency. The advent of pure PDF workflows based on the Adobe

PDF Print Engine will result in more reliable reproduction of PDF

contentthat is, greater consistency and fidelity to the designer’s

intent. For example, transparency effects in InDesign CS5/5.5, such as

gradient feather, glow, and inner shadow effects, image without the

need for flattening when output through a PDF Print Engine-based RIP.

You’ll find guidance in this document for identifying such effects and for

preparing jobs to correctly render them during output. Additionally,

you’ll find links to other available reference materials that cover such

topics in depth.

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Some technologies and conceptssuch as PDF creation, transparency,

and the Adobe Graphics Modelare common across the Adobe

products used for print design and production in Creative Suite 5/5.5

Design Premium, Design Standard or Master Collection. You’ll find

information about such topics in the “Common Resources” chapter.

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