9.3

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Choose File > Export > Layout as PDF. The Export as PDF dialog box displays.
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Enter a page range in the Pages field.
3
To use an existing output style, choose an option from the PDF Style drop-down menu.
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To modify output settings, click Options. Use the panes in the resulting dialog box to
control the format of the exported file.
• To use a PDF output style, choose an option from the PDF Style drop-down menu. To
create a PDF output style using the current settings, choose New PDF Output Style.
• To use PDF/X verification, choose an option from the Verification drop-down menu.
Available options include PDF/X 1a and PDF/X 3. Note that PDF/X 1a verification permits
only CMYK and spot colors, while PDF/X 3 verification allows you to include colors and
pictures that use other color spaces, along with ICC color profiles (which are defined in
the source and output setups for color management).
• 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 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.
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