Operation Manual

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USING ACROBAT X STANDARD
Creating PDFs
Last updated 10/11/2011
• Use color and custom page sizes that are available with the Acrobat Distiller PPD file. Other PPD files may cause
inappropriate colors, fonts, or page sizes in the PDF.
• Send PostScript files as 8-bit binary data when using FTP to transfer the files between computers, especially if the
platforms are different. This action prevents converting line feeds to carriage returns or vice versa.
Adobe PDF conversion settings
Choose an Adobe PDF preset for converting files
1 Do one of the following:
• Start Acrobat Distiller.
• In an Adobe Creative Suite® application, choose File > Print, select Adobe PDF as the target printer, and click
Properties.
• (Windows) In Office 2007 or later applications, choose Acrobat > Preferences.
• (Windows) In another authoring application or utility, choose Adobe PDF > Change Conversion Settings.
2 Choose a preset from the Default Settings (or Conversion Settings) menu.
Adobe PDF presets
A PDF preset is a group of settings that affect the process of creating a PDF. These settings are designed to balance file
size with quality, depending on how the PDF are used. Most predefined presets are shared across Adobe Creative Suite
applications, including InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat. You can also create and share custom presets
for your unique output requirements. A saved PDF preset file has the suffix .joboptions.
A few of the following presets are not available until you move them from the Extras folder (where they installed by
default) to the Settings folder for custom settings.
Important: Acrobat Standard does not include the Extras folder. The presets installed in the Extras folder are only
available in Acrobat Pro.
Typically, the Extras and Settings folders for default settings are found at the following locations.
• (Windows XP) Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/Adobe/Adobe PDF
• (Vista or Windows 7) ProgramData/Adobe/Adobe/Adobe PDF
The default settings files installed with Distiller are Read Only and Hidden.
The custom settings are found in the following locations:
• (Windows XP) Documents and Settings/[username]/Application Data/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings
• (Vista or Windows 7) Users/[username]/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings
Some presets are not available in some Creative Suite applications.
Review your PDF settings periodically. The settings do not automatically revert to the default settings. Applications
and utilities that create PDFs use the last set of PDF settings defined or selected.
High Quality Print Creates PDFs for quality printing on desktop printers and proofing devices. This preset uses PDF
1.4, downsamples color and grayscale images to 300 ppi and monochrome images to 1200 ppi. It also embeds subsets
of all fonts, leaves color unchanged, and does not flatten transparency (for file types capable of transparency). These
PDFs can be opened in Acrobat 5.0 and Acrobat Reader
5.0 and later.