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Importing, exporting, and saving
Last updated 10/3/2014
When you save in Adobe PDF, you can choose to create a PDF/X-compliant file. PDF/X (Portable Document Format
Exchange) is a subset of Adobe PDF that eliminates many of the color, font, and trapping variables that lead to printing
problems. PDF/X may be used wherever PDFs are exchanged as digital masters for print production—whether at the
creation or output stage of the workflow, as long as the applications and output devices support PDF/X.
Adobe PDFs can solve the following problems associated with electronic documents:
Create Adobe PDF files
You can create different types of PDF files from within Illustrator. You can create multipage PDFs, layered PDFs, and
PDF/x-compliant files. Layered PDFs allow you to save one PDF with layers that can be used in different contexts.
PDF/X-compliant files ease the burden of color, font, and trapping issues.
For a video on creating PDFs from Creative Suite applications, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0209. For a video on
exporting to PDF 1.7 for review or prepress purposes, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0210. For a video on creating
interactive PDFs, see www.adobe.com/go/vid0211.
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About Adobe PDF
Color management and PDF/X options for PDF
Color-managing PDFs for printing
Create an Adobe PDF
1 Choose File > Save As or File > Save A Copy.
2 Type a filename, and choose a location for the file.
3 Choose Adobe PDF (*.PDF) as the file format, and click Save.
4 Either choose a preset from the Adobe PDF Preset menu, or select a category from the list on the left of the dialog
box and then customize the options.
5 Click Save PDF.
To reset options to the default, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) and click Reset.
Create a multiple-page Adobe PDF
1 Create multiple artboards in a document.
2 Choose File > Save As, and select Adobe PDF forSave As Type.
Common problem Adobe PDF solution
Recipients can't open files because they don't have the applications
used to create the files.
Anyone, anywhere can open a PDF. All you need is the free Adobe
Reader software.
Combined paper and electronic archives are difficult to search, take up
space, and require the application in which a document was created.
PDFs are compact and fully searchable, and can be accessed at any
time using Reader. Links make PDFs easy to navigate.
Documents appear incorrectly on handheld devices. Tagged PDFs allow text to reflow for display on mobile platforms such
as Palm OS®, Symbian™, and Pocket PC® devices.
Documents with complex formatting are not accessible to visually
impaired readers.
Tagged PDFs contain information on content and structure, which
makes them accessible on-screen readers.