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262 Publishing and Sharing
Publishing as PDF
DrawPlus can output your drawings to PDF (Portable Document Format), a cross-
platform WYSIWYG file format developed by Adobe, intended to handle documents
in a device- and platform-independent manner. PDF documents are ideal for both
screen-ready distribution and professional printing. In DrawPlus, ready-to-go
PDF profiles are available for both uses, making PDF setup less complicated.
• Screen-ready. If you require screen-ready PDFs you're likely to need PDF
documents which are optimized for screen use, i.e., with hyperlinks,
downsampled images, document security, but without pre-press page
marks, bleed, etc. Downsampling images leads to smaller documents for
quicker loading.
Profiles such as "Web - Compact" and "Web - Normal" are provided for
electronic use (downsampling images to 96 and 150dpi, respectively), and
are ideal for hosting PDFs on websites or other electronic distribution
(email).
• Professional. PDF documents are suited to professional printing, i.e.,
when you deliver a high quality reproduction of your drawing to a print
partner (normally external to your company). You'll typically require page
marks, bleed, ≥300dpi images, and PDF/X-1a compatibility (for CMYK
output).
To make things simple, the professional print profile called "PDF X-1a" is
provided in DrawPlus (using PDF X-1a compatibility), but you should
check with your print partner if PDF/X-1, and any other settings, may be
required instead. A "Press Ready" profile can also be used for documents
which are not intended to be PDF/X compliant.
With PDF/X-1a or PDF/X-1 compatibility, all your drawing's colours will
be output in the CMYK colour space, and fonts you've used will be
embedded. A single PDF/X file will contain all the necessary information
(fonts, images, graphics, and text) your print partner requires.
DrawPlus lets you operate in a CMYK colour space from document
setup to professional PDF output. This involves starting with a new
drawing using a CMYK Primary colour space (p. 23).