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• Use the Color pane to specify whether to create composite output or separations,
to choose an output setup for the PDF file, and to select which plates should be
included in the output.
• Use the Compression pane to specify compression options for different image
types in the PDF file.
• Use the Pages pane to specify whether to export spreads, whether to export each
page as a separate PDF file, whether to include blank pages, and whether to embed
a thumbnail of the PDF file.
• Use the Registration Marks pane to specify the positioning, width, and length
of registration marks in the PDF file.
• Use the Hyperlink pane to specify how links and lists from the layout export and
how hyperlinks should appear in the PDF. You can also use this pane to specify
the default zoom of the PDF file.
• Use the Meta Data pane to provide the details that display in the Description
tab of the Document Properties dialog box in Adobe Acrobat Reader.
• Use the Fonts pane to specify which fonts are embedded within the exported PDF
file.
• Use the Bleed pane to specify how bleeds are handled in the PDF file.
• Use the Layers pane to specify which layers to include in the PDF file, and to
create PDF layers from the layers in the QuarkXPress layout.
• Use the Transparency pane to control how transparent items are flattened. To
disable flattening and maintain transparency relationships in the exported PDF,
click Export Transparency Natively. To output items without taking their opacity
values into account, click Ignore Transparency. To turn on flattening, click
Flatten Transparency.
When flattening is turned on, you can specify a resolution for rasterizing pictures that
include vector data in a transparency relationship. To do so, click the Vector Images
drop-down menu and choose or enter a dpi value. This control applies only when
flattening is turned on.
To specify a resolution for vector objects (regardless of whether flattening is turned
on), click the Vector Images drop-down menu and choose or enter a dpi value. To
specify a resolution for rasterizing drop shadows (regardless of whether flattening is
turned on), click the Drop Shadows drop-down menu and choose or enter a dpi value.
To specify resolution for rotated and skewed objects when flattening is turned on,
check Upsample Rotations and then enter a value in the To field. The To field value
should be at least equal to the highest resolution value among the Vector Images,
and Drop Shadows fields.
To control the resolution of flattened transparency in imported PDF and Adobe
Illustrator files, enter a value in the Flattening Resolution field.
Export Transparency Natively is unavailable if you choose PDF/X–1a: 2001 or
PDF/X–3: 2002 from the Verification drop-down menu. This feature is also unavailable
if you choose Separations from the Mode drop-down menu in the Color pane.
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