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Measure Twice, Cut Once: Creating PDF’s for Print Production

Measure Twice, Cut Once: Creating PDF’s for Print Production. Tony Hoffhines Supervisor of Design & Paging. Leading Layout Applications:. Adobe InDesign CS3 Quark Xpress 7.0 and now 8.0. Export vs Postscript? Which is better for Print?. Prinergy by Kodak allows for both!.

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Measure Twice, Cut Once: Creating PDF’s for Print Production

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  1. Measure Twice, Cut Once:Creating PDF’s for Print Production Tony Hoffhines Supervisor of Design & Paging

  2. Leading Layout Applications: Adobe InDesign CS3 Quark Xpress 7.0 and now 8.0

  3. Export vs Postscript?Which is better for Print?

  4. Prinergy by Kodakallows for both!

  5. What is Prinergy?Prinergy processes your job for printing.It is our RIP system.(RIP - Raster Image Processor)

  6. Are there problems withExporting to a PDF?

  7. Which Export? Lets start with: INDESIGN

  8. Select the “edit” button

  9. That is how you Export as a PDF from InDesign!

  10. Which Export? Now lets look at: QUARK XPRESS

  11. Select the “Output Styles” button

  12. Select Press - High Quality/High Resolution Select the “Edit” button

  13. (JDF: Job Definition Format)

  14. That is how we Export to PDF from Quark Xpress!

  15. Once we receive your PDF files we run them through a preflight tool called PitStop. What is PitStop?

  16. Does Exporting in RGB measure up? Does Exporting in CMYK make a difference?Which one is the best?

  17. Using Prinergy from Kodak RGB & CMYK are not issues.

  18. Will exporting to RGB cause a color shift when converted to CMYK?YES!

  19. Tiff vs JPEG?Bleeds?Spot Colors?Fonts Embedded?

  20. Send in aTEST FILE!

  21. Questions?

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