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Adobe Creative Suite 5 Printing Guide 44

color management. Transparency is aened; no color conversion

takes place.

•PDF/X-4:2008Based on PDF 1.4 (Acrobat 5.0). Supports color

management and maintains live transparency; no aening or color

conversion takes place. is is ideal for RIPs based on the Adobe PDF

Print Engine technology.

There’s at least one important modification you should make to the PDF

preset you use as a starting point in InDesign: by default, InDesign does

not include bleed or marks in its default presets. Consider creating a

custom PDF preset that includes bleed, and share it with your customers:

1. Choose File > Adobe PDF Presets > Dene.

2. Choose the appropriate preset for a starting point.

3. Click the New buon, and name the preset.

4. To modify the bleed seings, choose Marks and Bleeds, and set the

appropriate bleed amount for your workow. It is not sucient to

check the option to Use Document Bleed Seings. If a document

has been set up with zero bleed, the resulting PDF will be without

bleed. Rather, set the bleed amount to an appropriate number (usu-

ally 0.125 in).

5. Choose any printer’s marks you wish to add.

6. Click OK to save the PDF preset

7. To save the PDF preset as a le for another workstation or a cus-

tomer, choose File > Adobe PDF Presets > Dene, select the preset

in the list, and click the Save As buon. Give the preset a brief name

(InDesign adds the extension .joboptions to the name), and save the

preset.

8. To load a PDF preset, choose File > Adobe PDF Presets > Dene

and click the Load buon. Navigate to the supplied le and click

Open. e preset is added to the list of available presets in InDesign,

and is then also available to other Creative Suite 5 applications.

In addition to the PDF/X presets, InDesign also includes the following

default PDF creation presets: Smallest File Size, High Quality Print, and

Press Quality. For details of specific features of the default PDF presets

in Creative Suite 5 applications, see the “Common Resources” chapter.

Exporting PDFs versus Distilling

Adobe does not recommend creating PDFs from any Adobe application

by exporting to PostScript and distilling: Text searchability, accessibility

features, live transparency, and other useful features are destroyed in

this approach. No modern print workflow requires this method of PDF

creation: Instead, use the built-in PDF export options available in Adobe

applications.

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NOTE: If you are printing to an in-house device as a proofing method, but

submitting final PDF files to the RIP, consider printing from the exported

PDF files rather than the native InDesign file, to ensure fidelity to the

print-ready PDF.

The comprehensive range of InDesign options lets you precisely

customize print settings for your shop’s workflow. Once you’ve

determined the best combinations of settings for the devices in your

shop, save those combinations as print presets. You may then be able to

run many of your jobs simply by choosing a preset from the Printer

Preset menu at the top of the Print dialog box. Your shop’s goal should

be to prepare print presets for the most common types of output so

that InDesign files print easily and consistently. You can change all

printer optionssuch as page size and color profilesfrom the Print

dialog box.

Print settings are independently maintained for each document, so that

each document can preserve its own settings.

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