Creating, editing, and sharing PDF presets


    A PDF preset is a predefined set of PDF options. You can create, edit, and delete PDF presets.

    PDF presets are stored in a PDFS file, which is located within your Illustrator application folder. You can save one or more PDF presets to a new PDFS file in order to transfer them to a different computer or application. You can also load presets from a PDFS file.

To create a new PDF preset:

    Do one of the following:

    • Choose Edit > PDF Presets. Click New, and enter a name for the preset. Then set the desired options, and click OK.
    • To create a new preset while saving a PDF file, click Save Preset in the Adobe PDF Options dialog box. Enter a name for the preset, and click OK. (See Using PDF presets.)

To edit an existing PDF preset:

  1. Choose Edit > PDF Presets.
  2. Select the preset you want to edit, and click Edit.
  3. Set the desired options, and click OK.

To delete a PDF preset:

  1. Choose Edit > PDF Presets.
  2. Select the preset you want to delete, and click Delete.

To save PDF presets to a .pdfs file:

  1. Choose Edit > PDF Presets.
  2. Select the presets you want to save. To select multiple adjacent presets, click the first one, and then Shift-click the last one. To select multiple nonadjacent presets, Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) the preset names.
  3. Click Export.
  4. Specify a location and name for the .pdfs file, and click Save.

To load PDF presets from a PDFS file:

  1. Choose Edit > PDF Presets.
  2. Click Import.
  3. Locate the PDFS file you want to load, and click Open.