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Last updated 6/15/2014
Adobe PDF is highly effective in print publishing workflows. By saving a composite of your artwork in Adobe PDF, you
create a compact, reliable file that you or your service provider can view, edit, organize, and proof. Then, at the
appropriate time in the workflow, your service provider can either output the Adobe PDF file directly, or process it
using tools from various sources for such post-processing tasks as preflight checks, trapping, imposition, and color
separation.
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:
Embedding and substituting fonts
InCopy embeds a font only if it contains a setting by the font vendor that permits it to be embedded. Embedding
prevents font substitution when a reader views or prints the file, and ensures that readers see the text in its original font.
Embedding increases the file size only slightly, unless the document uses CID (multibyte) fonts, a font format
commonly used for Asian languages, where multiple characters are combined to create a single glyph.
For each font embedded, InCopy can embed the entire font or just a subset—the particular characters, called glyphs,
used in the file. Subsetting ensures that your fonts and font metrics are used at print time by creating a custom font
name. The subsetting options you choose affect disk space and your ability to do late-stage editing.
If InCopy cannot embed a font, it temporarily substitutes the font with a Multiple Master typeface: either AdobeSerMM
for a missing serif font, or AdobeSanMM for a missing sans serif font.
These typefaces can stretch or condense to fit, to ensure that line and page breaks are maintained from the original
document. The substitution cannot always match the shape of the original characters, however, especially if the
characters are unconventional ones, such as script typefaces.
If characters are unconventional (left), the substitution font cannot always match (right).
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.