Operation Manual

Saving and Exporting Files 35
Saving
In FreeHand, you can save your pages as a FreeHand document, template, or
editable EPS (a le that you can both place in page layout programs and edit if
necessary). In Illustrator, you can save your work as Illustrator les or templates,
Illustrator EPS, Adobe PDF, and SVG (all of these are native formats that can
easily be reused or imported because they preserve all Illustrator data).
If you need to use the Illustrator le in an Adobe workow, you can leave it
in the Illustrator le format (make sure that the Create PDF Compatible File
option is selected in the Save As dialog box). You will then be able to place the
le into InDesign layouts or further edit the le in Photoshop.
Saving and
Exporting Files
The native Illustrator le formats, which you
can access by choosing File > Save, Save As,
or Save A Copy.
When saving Illustrator les as PDF, you
can also choose from several PDF/X
standards.
About PDF/X
PDF/X is a standard used for professional
printing workows. The benet of using
PDF/X is that the produced PDF will not
contain unnecessary information and
will not include elements that may cause
problems during output (such as RGB
images).
Choose an Adobe PDF standard from the Standard menu at the top of the Save Adobe
PDF dialog box. Currently, the most widely used standards for a print publishing work-
ow are available in two dierent types of PDF/X formats: PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3. For
more information on PDF/X, see the Adobe website (www.adobe.com/studio/print/psp.
html).
PDF/X is an ISO standard used for graphic content exchange and professional work-
ows.
PDF/X-1a requires that all fonts be embedded, the appropriate PDF bounding boxes
be specied, and color appears as CMYK, spot colors, or both. PDF/X-compliant les
must contain information describing the printing condition for which they are pre-
pared. You can open PDF les created with PDF/X-1a compliance in Acrobat 4.0 and
later and Acrobat Reader 4.0 and later (renamed Adobe Reader from version 6.0 on).
The main dierence between PDF/X-3 or PDF/X-4 and PDF/X-1a is the use of color
management and device-independent color (CIE L*a*b, ICC-based color spaces, Cal-
RGB, and CalGray) in addition to CMYK and spot colors. PDF/X-3 allows you to use ICC
color proles to specify color data later in the workow at the output device. You can
open PDF les created with PDF/X-3 compliance in Acrobat 4.0 and later and Acrobat
Reader 4.0 and later. PDF/X-4 (based on PDF 1.7) supports transparencies, layers,
JPEG2000 image compression, and 16-bit images.