Using PDF presets
For your convenience, Illustrator includes several presets for creating Adobe PDF files. The settings in these presets are designed to balance file size with quality, depending on how the Adobe PDF file is to be used. You can also create new presets with custom settings.
To save artwork in Adobe PDF using a preset: - Choose a Save command. (See About saving artwork.)
- Type a filename, and choose a location for the file.
- Choose Illustrator PDF (*.PDF) as the file format, and click Save.
- In the Adobe PDF Options dialog box, choose an option from the Preset pop-up menu and click Save PDF.
Illustrator provides the following default presets: - Illustrator Default to create a PDF file in which all Illustrator data is preserved. PDF files created with this preset can be reopened in Illustrator without any loss of data.
- Press to create a PDF file that will be printed to imagesetters or platesetters as high quality final output. In this case, file size is not a consideration. The objective is to maintain all of the information in an Adobe PDF file that a commercial printer or service provider will need to print the document correctly. This set of options converts color to CMYK, embeds all fonts used in the file, prints at a higher resolution, and uses other settings to preserve the maximum amount of information contained in the original document.
Note: Before creating an Adobe PDF file to send to a commercial printer or service provider, check with the provider to find out what the output resolution and other settings should be. You may need to customize the settings for a particular provider, and then provide them with a custom preset. - Acrobat 6 Layered to create a PDF file in which top-level Illustrator layers are saved as Acrobat layers. This allows Adobe Acrobat 6 users to generate multiple versions of a document from a single file. For example, if a document will be published in multiple languages, you can place the text for each language in a different layer. Your printer or prepress service provider can then show and hide the layers in Acrobat 6 to generate different versions of the document.
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