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Exporting Press Ready Files with Adobe InDesign
Advanced Web Offset uses PDF workflow for its consistent quality and ease of use. However, if a quality PDF is not produced, the final product will suffer. Here are the steps needed to create a high quality PDF from Adobe InDesign.
Adobe InDesign allows you to define your present for exporting to a PDF, and save them under a unique name, so you can apply these presents to all the PDF’s you will be sending to us. Once you set this up and save, it will aways be there for you to chose when you go to export your project to a PDF.
Under the “File” menu you will see “Adobe PDF Presets“, mouse over and select from the
PDX/X-1a:2001 from the list. This is the closest preset to Advanced Web Offset requirements and will only need some minor modifications to get to the settings we need for the highest quality PDF’s.
Next you will see the following dialogue box that ask where you want to save your PDF. It is very important that we export the right kind of document, that is small but still has all the resolution required for quality printing. To do this, we must check several settings using the dialogue box that appears one you save your file.
The good news is, once you create your present and save your preset, it will always appear as a choice in the present menu.
“General” Settings – Compatibility Acrobat 5.0
“Compression” Settings – NO changes
“Marks & Bleed” – .25″ bleed on all sides.
Skip this step if your document does not have any bleeds.
“Output” – Insure “No Color Conversion” is checked.
