Acrobat PDF Settings
Adobe Creative Suite CS3 / CS4 / CS5 will share Acrobat Settings. If you create them once, they’ll be available to other programs in the Suite.
For all files supplied to us, we recommend:
General:
- Set Acrobat for PDF 1.7 (versions 8 or 9)
- Optimize Fast Web View ON
- Create Acrobat Layers OFF
- Create Tagged PDF OFF
Compression:
- Color Images
- Bicubic Downsampling to 300 for Images above 450
- Compression JPEG
- Image quality Maximum
Greyscale Images:
- Bicubic Downsampling to 300 for Images above 450
- Compression JPEG
- Image quality Maximum
Monochrome Images:
- Bicubic Downsampling to 1200 for Images above 1800
- Compression CCITT Group 4
- Compress Text and Line Art (not checked)
- Crop Image Data to Frames (not checked)
Marks and Bleeds:
- Crop Marks ON
- Bleed .125″ for Top, Bottom, Left and Right
Output:
- Be sure to check your ink settings in the INK MANAGER each time to specify Process and Spot (PMS colors)
- Color conversion set to NO COLOR CONVERSION
- Profile Inclusion Policy set to DON’T INCLUDE PROFILES (Profiles are for screen appearance and will be dropped in the rip)
You can save this preset with your own filename or MIDTOWN for future use.