2013

Importing and Exporting 315
MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 provides very comprehensive controls over
many aspects of your PDF output. These are just some of the options and features
you can control in MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 PDF output. You can:
• embed fonts in the file which means all readers can be sure of seeing the file
exactly as you intend, but this makes the files larger. You can also select to
embed only a subset of the fonts (only the used characters) to reduce the PDF
file size;
• set it to re-sample all images or photos to be any required resolution so they are
not unnecessarily high resolution;
• set it to convert bitmaps to JPEG or remain in their raw state;
• make it so that layers in your MAGIX Page & Layout Designer 2013 drawing are
visible and can be switched on and off in Adobe Reader;
• select which version of PDF or PDF/X file you want to create;
• select which pages of a multi-page document are exported;
• make your PDF file password protected;
• even embed the original .xar file (or other files) into the PDF for the ultimate in
document portability.
To make life easier all the options have been distilled down to four easy choices.
When you export as a PDF you are presented with a choice of the following presets:
• Draft quality.
• Email distribution or Web download.
• High quality.
• Commercial printing (PDF/X). (Xara Designer Pro only)
You can customize the settings of any of these presets by clicking the
ADVANCED
OPTIONS
button.
Exporting PDF files
PDF versions
PDF has evolved over the years as more features have been added. Typically, along
with each new version of PDF, a new version of Adobe Reader is released to support
the new PDF features. Unfortunately, the version number of PDF Reader and the PDF
file do not match. So, for example, Adobe Reader version 5 is required to read PDF
versions 1.4.
PDF version 1.4 was the first version to support transparency and so is the minimum
generally recommended version to use. Later versions support some of the extra
features. For example, if you want to use the Layer feature (so you can switch MAGIX
Page & Layout Designer 2013 layers on and off in Adobe Reader), you need to export
as a PDF version 1.5, or higher, and this requires Adobe Reader version 6, or higher.