Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Standard manuale d’uso

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Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide i Adobe ® C reati ve S uite 5/5.5 Print in g Guide Introduc tion ................................................................... 1 About CS5.5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 What ?[...]

A CS5 . 5 Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 1 Introduc tion W elcome t o the Adobe ® Creative Suite ® 5 / 5 . 5 Printing Guide. A dobe is dedicated to pr oviding sof t ware that all ows designer s to express their visual ideas , while pro viding t ools and resources to printers to ensure that those ideas print as intended.[...]

H T   G  I  S   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 2 This document is organized so that you can quickly f ind information about specif ic sof t ware. A s a job enters production in a printing plant, it s path varies acc ordin g to the con ventions of the par ticular plant, as well [...]

CS L Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 3 Cha pte r 1 : Common Res ource s The integration bet ween componen t s in the Crea tive Suite 5 family allo ws for such productiv it y enhancing feat ures as shared color manag ement set tings , common PDF preset s f iles, s hared c olor swatches, and the abilit y to use native f iles[...]

PDF C  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 4 ins truc tions and displays the result s on screen. The Adobe Graphics Model allo ws In Design to c onsi stently display placed raster and v ec tor ar t at full resolution , as if you were viewing the origina l ar t in Photoshop or Illustrator . It al so enables you t o vie[...]

PDF S   : A    Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 5 • Adobe P DF Prese t indicates whether a def ault preset or a user - creat - ed preset i s being used. If you’ve s tar ted with an exi sting preset and modied some of it s se ings , the preset name is followed b y “( modi- ?[...]

PDF S   : A    Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 6 set tings w ill aut omatically be a vailable t o the other applications. ( H owev er , some ins talled preset s are ava ilable only within Distiller or Illustrator ). Adobe ap plications ins tall a def ault set of PDF cre ation preset s , [...]

S     A    F W  I   A    Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 7 S    A    F W I    A   ?[...]

S     A    F W  I   A    Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 8 PDF / X st andards evol ve t o meet the need s and capabilities of the changin g environ ment, hence the multipl e specif ic ations. H ow do you det[...]

H C  P F  S   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 9 Managing C us tom PDF preset s Supplied PDF preset s are stored in one c ommon location for ac cess by Illustrator , InDe sign, Photoshop an d Dis tiller ( w ith the exc eptions of[...]

T   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 10 If you prefer that customer s submit print - ready PDF f iles , the precedin g advice is still benef icial, bec ause using the tools correc tly and unders tanding your needs helps them build better f iles, w hich bec ome bet ter PDFs. No doubt you know all t oo we[...]

T   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 11 in the workf low , and the desired result s can be achiev ed even via printing suc h PDF f iles wi th live transparency to Post Script RI Ps direc tly from Adobe Ac robat Pro . Print workf lows which utilize the A dobe PDF Print Engine can maintain live tra nspare[...]

T   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 12 decide how y ou should stack page object s to a void aening t ex t and vector segment s. Flaener Preview Red hig hlig ht ind icates vec tor area s tha t will be a e cted by tran spa renc y . For more information about transparency , see “ T ransparen[...]

T   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 13 sheet fe d printing, i t ’s not alwa y s the bes t choic e. A more appr opriate con version for a sheet f ed operation might be t o choose the U. S . Sheet fed CMYK working space b y selec ting U. S . Sheet fed Coated ( or Uncoat ed) v 2 f rom the CM YK menu in [...]

T   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 14 on an embedded prof ile, c hang e the CMYK c olor policy to Preser ve Embedded Prof iles in the Col or Set tings dialog box. Y ou c an easily restore the safe CMYK workf low b y changin g the CMYK c olor policy back t o Preser ve Number s ( Ignore Linked Pr of ile[...]

T   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 15 Cha pte r 2: A dobe InDe sign C S5 / C S5. 5 For most de signers and ser vice providers, I nDesign is the corner stone of Adobe C reative Suite 5 / 5. 5 De sign Premi um and Standard. The advanced la yout and output capabilities in InDe sign expand creativ e freed[...]

T   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 16 • Content Grabber: Y ou no longer ha ve t o swi tch t o the Direc t S elec - tion tool t o selec t a graphic within a frame. Hover near the c enter of a frame containing a graphic, and a view nder -like ic on appears , indi- cating that you can just click [...]

T   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 17 • Para graphs that s pan and split columns: Pa ragraphs can now span multiple c olumns w ithin a multi-column text f rame, without the need to cr eate an additiona l threaded text f rame. Paragraphs can also be set to split c olumns into multi ple sub- colum [...]

T   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 18 • Interactive document des ign with SW F le expor t: T rans form page layouts into dynamic SWF les wi thout working in the A dobe Flas h ® authoring en vironment. Animate page c ontent, and add m ultimedia features . Crea te digital documents with inte[...]

P  I D   D    O   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 19 • Customiz able Link s panel: Find, s or t, and manage a ll of your docu- ment ’s placed les in the customizable Link s panel. V iew aributes that are most critical to your work[...]

P  I D   D    O   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 20 Cleaning up the Pas teboard Objec ts in the pa steboard area do n ot image, n or do they appear in expor ted PDF f iles , unless they f all within the designated bl eed or slug area. But the pr[...]

P  I D   D    O   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 21 If you cannot locate an y page elements using the unwanted spot c olor , but are still conc erned that an unwanted plat e may be output as a result of ar t work you’ve o verlook ed, t r y thi[...]

P  I D   D    O   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 22 Us ing the I nk Manage r Selec t a spo t color you want to rem ap to ano ther i nk, a nd use t he In k Alia s pop -u p menu to selec t the ta rget in k. T o remap one spot col or to an other sp[...]

P  I D   D    O   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 23 C ross-p latform issues While InDesign f iles and popular graphics format s originating on a PC can be opened on a Mac ( and vice v er sa ), fonts c an still be an issue . Windows-format T r ue[...]

P  I D   D    O   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 24 Link s Panel In addition to pr oviding methods for locating , updating , and relin king graphics used in an In Design f ile, the Link s panel can pro vide det ailed information about link ed an[...]

P  I D   D    O   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 25 By def ault, the most commonly needed options are displayed in col umns in the main window of the Link s panel, and the remainder are displayed in a list in the Info panel . Link s Panel Option[...]

P  I D   D    O   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 26 Relink to Fo lder T o qu ickly rel ink g raphic s to grap hic s with t he same n ame, bu t in a di e rent f older (fo r exa mple, to su bs titu te hig h-re solu tion i mage s for lo w-re sol[...]

P  I D   D    O   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 27 resolution or col or space. It ’s simply been ex trac ted from the InDe sign f ile and saved t o disk . Embedded Images An icon ind icates t hat a g raphic i s embe dded in th e InD es ign ?[...]

P  I D   D    O   Adobe Creative Suite 5 P rinting Guide 28 L a yer ov errides to placed f iles The L ayer Ov errides ( O bject > O bject L ayer Options ) in InDesign allow a designer to c ontrol the display of lay er s in Phot oshop, Ill us trator , or PDF[...]

P  I D   D    O   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 29 EPS and DC S f iles ( such as copy-dot scans ) not meeting thes e requirements can s till be plac ed, but they won’t benef it f rom the enhanced w ork f low in InDesign. Y ou can also elec t [...]

T   F       Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 30 per form font subs titution in those f iles , and then updat e. T o open a placed InDesign f ile, selec t the name of the f ile in the Links panel and click the E dit Original icon ( small penci l ) at the bot tom of the pan el . If you edit graphics containe[...]

T   F       Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 31 pro vide you with hard cop y or PDFs for each case of Conditional text so you can check for c orrec t output . Show ing and Hid ing Cond ition al T e x t Condi tiona l tex t can b e vis ible fo r one ver sio n of ou tput (le ) and hidde n for a nothe r ver[...]

R  S   V Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 32 Numbering Sty les If you can’ t selec t a nu mber o r le er in a li st , it ’s bei ng gene rated by a paragrap h st yle t hat use s In De sign’s a uto -nu mber ing fea ture. T o change t he a ribu tes of t he num ber s ( or l e?[...]

U    I D   F   T   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 33 their original orientation. Note that a singl e page within a spread canno t be rotated separatel y f rom the other pa ges in the spread. Rotate Spread View T o facil ita te working o n layou ts su ch as cale n[...]

U    I D   F   T   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 34 Preight Repor ting Ba sed on a cus tom pre ig ht pro le, In De sign d is play s an er ror mes sag e for each v iola tion . e prob lem is d escri bed, a nd a pos sib le x i s propos ed. Y ou can s[...]

U    I D   F   T   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 35 • Use s trans parenc y: Check for graphics and other object s using trans- parency ( opacit y or blending m ode ). • Image ICC pro le : Check for embedded proles that ma y cause CMYK c onv ersio[...]

F P  : A F  T   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 36 There are some font is sues that Pref light does not catch : Font s required by an y PSD f iles with tex t layers are not indicated in the list . The se font s will not be chec ked for b[...]

F P  : A F  T   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 37 • Y ou can’ t preview the o verprinting eec t s of built -in trapping or Adobe In-R IP T rapping. Separations Preview displays only the e ec ts of ov erprint s applied man u[...]

F P  : A F  T   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 38 • T rans parent Objec ts: Highlights objec t s that use transparenc y . It doesn’ t indicate an y of the pos sible results of  aening. • All Aec ted Object s: Highli[...]

F P  : A F  T   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 39 Flaener Preview e tex t o n the le  is a ec ted by the d rop shad ow becau se it i s below t he drop s hadow. e tex t o n the rig ht is n’t a ec ted by tran spare ncy[...]

C M   I   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 4 0 Solv ing the S hadow Pro blem Place the i mage t wice, fo r separa te handl ing of th e shado w and the o bjec t. U se Ob jec t Layer Opt ion s (le) to c ont rol the v isi bil it y of la yer s, a nd set t he shad ow’s f rame to M u[...]

W  W   B F  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 4 1 There are t wo possible t ypes of mism atc hes: prof ile mismatc hes and policy mi smatch es . A prof ile mismatch simpl y means that the RGB or CMYK w orking space of the user who s av ed the document is dif f erent than the working spac e[...]

W  W   B F  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 42 separately , but are manag ed by the book f ile for pagina tion, indexing , and other operations. If a cu stomer has used a book f ile, it ’s best to manag e prepress operations such as pref lighting acr os s all doc ument s in a book . Th[...]

C    PDF F  F I D   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 43 customer s synchronize, pref light, packag e, and pr oof book f iles to resolve outs tanding book -level issue s before the f iles are handed of f. When you synchronize a book f ile, the foll owing attribu tes are g ov er[...]

P    I D   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 4 4 col or manag ement . T ransparenc y is  aened ; no col or con version t a ke s pl a ce . • PD F/X- 4:20 0 8 B ased on PDF 1 .4 ( Acrobat 5.0 ). Suppor t s color manag ement and maintains live transparency; no a ening o[...]

P    I D   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 45 The pr int dialog box: Common areas In the Print dialog b ox, the only area that cha nges is that containin g options specif ic to each panel. All other are as of the Print dialog bo x are common ar eas that remain visible regar dless of t[...]

P    I D   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 4 6 The document preview pro x y has three views; to cycle throu gh the views , click the pr ox y . T he views are as follows: Standard v iew: Displays the relationship of a document pag e to the media. I t shows the ef fec t s of various opt[...]

P    I D   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 47 will print only the master pag es , and will not print an y document pages. Y ou can al so choose to print al l layers , only the visible lay ers , or only the layers which are both visible an d printable. General Option s Contro l num ber[...]

P    I D   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 4 8 Graphics: Under Images, choose f rom All ( compl ete image information ), Optimized Subsampling ( reduced data to speed printing), Pro x y (low-resolution repr esent ations of imag es for quick comp printing), or None (print gra y box es [...]

P    I D   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 49 preset . If you have no t created a c us tom f lat tener preset, choose the High Resolution preset . Advanced Options e Pri nt As B it map opt ion i s only avai lable fo r non -Po st Scri pt pri nter s; it may be u sef ul i f comple x c[...]

P    I D   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 50 print stream with the pages in position. T o u se the Print Booklet func tion: 1. Choose File > Print Booklet, and if appropriat e, pick a pr ese t from the Print Preset menu. Or choose Current Document Seing s to use the print se ?[...]

H  C    P I D   F  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 51 Print Booklet Preview Page th rough t he di splay to see p ages i nclude d, as wel l as the re sul ts o f any creep val ues . e Me ssag es area d isp lay s whet her bla nk page s had to be [...]

H  C    P I D   F  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 52 • Commun icate any spec ial circ ums tances, including custom-nishing such as embos sing , foil-s tamping , spot var nishes , complicated folding , or custom binding. Preparing f iles [...]

H  C    P I D   F  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 53 Fonts Screen e Font s scree n iden ti es fo nt fo rmat s , and h ighl ight s m is sing fo nt s , includ ing fo nt s mi ssi ng in pla ced ar t work . Protec ted fon ts a re fon ts wh ich [...]

H  C    P I D   F  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 54 The E x tern al Plug-in s screen lis t s an y plug -ins u sed in the creation of the document. Generally , plug-ins used by document creat ors are not necess ar y for successf ul output by oth[...]

H  C    P I D   F  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 55 time the document is packa ged. is option is not selec ted by default; to ensure that al l needed ar t work and font s are packa ged, be sure t o selec t this option if needed layers are hi[...]

G  G  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 56 Cha pte r 3: Adobe Phot os hop C S 5 and Photos hop C S5 E x tended It is rare that a f inal job comes to you as a Phot oshop f ile; ima ges are usually placed int o pag e layouts or illus tration f iles for design and output . So, in addition to bei[...]

G  G  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 57 express ed in pixels per inch (pp i ). T he higher the r esolution of an image that ’s a given size, the mor e det ail that can be displayed. 36 pp i: 128 KB 72 pp i: 236 K B 30 0 pp i: 2.2 M B Up sa mpl in g: Res olu ti on i ncr eas ed to 30 0 pp [...]

G  G  Adobe Creative Suite 5 P rinting Guide 58 down in a pag e layout, it ’s proba bly not worthwhile to use Phot oshop to scale down the ima ges and update them. But if mos t of your imag es are scaled downor if images are scaled down drasticallyit may be wor thwhile t o take the time t o reduc[...]

G  G  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 59 No te: T o speci f y a de faul t scali ng metho d, choo se Edit > P refere nces > Gene ral (Win- dows) or Photosho p > Prefe rences > Gen eral ( Ma c OS ), and t hen cho ose a me thod f rom the I mage In terpola tio n Meth ods me nu. Chan[...]

G  G  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 60 If par t of your workf low consist s of printing t o inkjet printer s, you should k e ep imag es in RGB: E ven though inkjet printers image with c yan, magen ta , yell ow , black ( and of ten additional c olors ), they expec t an R GB print s tream a[...]

G  G  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 61 6. In the Color Seings dialog box, click Sav e and name the new c olor se ing. Phot oshop will save the c olor seing in the default location. If you want to sav e the seing s le somewhere else, navigate t o that location. Y ou’re als[...]

A  F     Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 62 should manua lly pick a blac k ink . This result s in an additional, unintended plat e being gene rated during output . Duotone Se ings e defa ul t se ings f or a duo tone ima ge use p roces s black fo r the blac k plate. Ch oosi ng Pa[...]

A  F     Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 63 • Clippi ng paths and vector mask s for silhoue ing object s. • Impor ting 3D cont ent from C AD programs. • Editing and pa inting directly on 3D layers . Phot oshop PS D f iles suppor t CMYK, RGB , and Lab colo r spaces , as [...]

A  F     Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 6 4 V e c tor T ex t i n Photosh op Viewed i n Photos hop (le), the tex t appe ar s raster ized. It w ill ima ge as p ixel s if p rinted di rect ly fro m Photos hop, un les s Inc lude Vector Da ta is chec ked in the pri nt di alog ( a nd the pr[...]

A  F     Adobe Creative Suite 5 P rinting Guide 65 and doubl e- clicking to edit will call up the Camera Raw in ter face. V ec tor Smar t Objec ts c an be endlessly trans formed without losing data (because each transform i s re-rendered from the embedded vec tor data ), but ras ter Smar t Objec ts ar[...]

A  F     Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 6 6 as signin g tex tures , adding l ights , and rendering the c ontent using ray-trac ing techn iques that create r ealistic shadows and ref lec tions . T ran sforming Content Into 3- Dimensional Objec ts T ex t and ot her oa ting la yer s can[...]

A  F     Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 67 T o edit 3D objec t s, choose options f rom the new 3D menu. T o add new light sourc es , double-click the 3D objec t ’s thumbnai l ( indicated b y a three- dimensional cube ic on ) in the Layers palet te to activate the 3D Lights panel . Use[...]

A  F     Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 68 Encapsul ated P os tS cript ( E PS ) The EP S ( f ile ex tension .eps ) format doe s not support m an y of the features of native Ph otoshop f ilessuch as lay er s, Smar t Objec ts , and Smar t Filters . T raditionally , the EP S format has [...]

A  F     Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 69 imag es ). The unat trac tive rec tangular compression ar tif act s that are frequently as sociated with JPEG ima ges do not appear i n images compr es sed with Max imum quality s et tings in Photoshop . That s aid, it ’s general ly advis abl[...]

P    P  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 70 As mentioned earlier , Photoshop PDF is the best f ormat for imag es containin g vec tor c ontent: the f ile can be reopened for editing in Phot oshop without r asterizing the vec tor c ontent, and the PDF “wr apper” ensures that pa[...]

P    P  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 71 Some of the options availabl e when printing from Photoshop depend on the features of the target device. Choose File > Print t o open the Print dialog bo x . T he dialog bo x i s divided into two sec tions; the preview and general op[...]

P    P  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 72 • Corner Crop Mark s: Prints crop mark s at the corners of the image bounds . • Center Crop Marks: Print s crosshairs at the ver tical and horizontal cent er s of the imag e. • Descr iption: Prints any description t ex t [...]

P    P  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 73 which ma y produce l es s-vivid col ors w hen printing t o a wide-gamut dev ice . • Photoshop Manages Colors: When this option is selec ted, you can choose a target printer prole an d a rendering int ent . e ideal target pro?[...]

P    P  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 7 4 Cha pte r 4: Adobe Illu s trator C S5 Over its produc t life, Adobe Illustrator has evol ved from a s turdy v ec tor - drawing pro gram for creating l ogos and i llustrations to a f ull-featured creativ e environment with paint erly br[...]

P    P  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 75 • V ar iable Width Strokes: e new Width T ool ( ) allo ws you to var y the thickness of a s trok e sy mmetrically or asy mmetrically . e stroke prole can be saved as a preset, and applied to m ultiple strok es . W i d t h [...]

H  E F  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 76 • Shape Builder T ool: Drag across multiple ob jec t s to c ombine them ; similar to P athnder ’s “Unite” feature, ex cept that the color o f the combined ob jec t is bas ed on the rs t objec t click ed . • Alig[...]

H  E F  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 77 • No More Filter s: ere was considerable dup lication bet ween the visual operations availabl e under the Filter menu and th ose available under the Eec t s menu. Filters created literal, embedded, pixel-based cont ent, or[...]

H  E F  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 78 areas within a single doc ument . While this does not mean that Illustrator is now a pag e layout application ( f or exampl e, there is no pro vision for ma ster pages or aut omatic page n umbering , as in InDesign ), it provides the[...]

W    T     P   V    I      Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 79 Reor dering Artboards T o chang e the orde r of ar t boards , e ithe r use t he up/ down icon s at th e boo m of the Ar tbo ards pa nel , or j[...]

W    T     P   V    I      Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 80 do not af fec t purely vector cont ent . And, while fonts are embedded in Illustrator native f iles and EPSs for pur poses of display and print, [...]

S  F P  V   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 81 S  F P   V   If your workf low inc ludes editing customer f iles and then returning the corrected f iles to the cus tomer for future use, you face an additional co[...]

D C M Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 82 D  C M  When creatin g a new document, an ar tis t can choose f rom multip le document presets , intended for a variet y of output options , includin g Print, Web , V ideo, Mobil e and Devices, B asic RGB,[...]

L E   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 83 Y ou can toggle Proof Col or s on and o by r e- selec ting the option. When so proong is on, the Proof Colo r s comma nd displays a check mark, and the name of the proof p reset or prole appears at the top of the doc ument window . 3. T o compare the a ppe[...]

L E   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 84 3D Eects T o edi t ex ist ing 3D e ec t s , doub le- click t he 3D en tr y in t he Appea rance panel . T o see addi tio nal contro ls i n the 3D O ptio ns d ialog, cl ick th e More Op tion s bu on. Spot Co lor s and SVG Filter s Whil e mos t Live E ect s p[...]

L E   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 85 E xpanding 3D object s A live 3D object in Illus trator is a simple c ross s ec tion under the hood. While this all ows you to edit the basic cross sec tion shape ( and thus the shape of the 3D objec t ), you cannot selec t individual, shaded areas for editing , becau[...]

L E   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 86 Env elope Distor t Star t wi th tex t, an d appl y a Mesh E nvelope D is tor t e ec t ( top ). T o edi t the en velope it se lf, choo se Obje ct > En velope D is tor t > Edi t Envelope ( center ) and ma nipu late th e envelop e’s ancho r poi nt s and cont r[...]

L E   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 87 in front of or behind the object ’s f ill, and the order of strok es can be chang ed to modif y the appearanc e of the object . Modif y ing Object s with the Appearanc e Panel Fill a nd Stroke a ri bute s are li sted a s separa te entri es an d can be mani pula t[...]

L E   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 88 Handling co mplex f iles T oday’s RIP s are much mo re robust than they were just a few year s ag o, but at times you may still want t o simplif y a f ile for processing. An ex tremely compl ex vector f ile can present challen ges in trapping or may result in l ong [...]

E   C F  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 89 Simplif y path s Ar t work that has been generated b y the Live T race feature in Ill us trator can hav e tens of thousand s of points . If you are havin g dif f icult y proc es sing such a c omplex f ile, the Simpl if y feature, if us[...]

F  T   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 90 Link ed and Embedded imag es Ras ter ima ges can either be embedded in an Illustrator f ile, or placed in an Illustrator f ile with an ex ternal link ( as in InDe sign ). E ach option has advant ages and di sad vantages: • Linking images requir es that the[...]

F  T   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 91 Overprint Preview As mentioned in the earlier sec tion, “ Using the Attr ibutes panel,” Overprint Preview (View > Overprint Pr eview ) c an help you f ind ov erprinting probl ems in Illus trator f iles. Be cause Overprint Preview pro vides a more realist[...]

P   F I     Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 92 • Ras terized C omplex R egions • T ran sparent O bjec t s • All Aec ted Object s • Aec ted Link ed EPS F iles • E xpanded P aerns • Outlined Strokes The options available t o you depend on [...]

P   F I     Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 93 multiple de vices without having to c hange set tings each time y ou swi tch de vices . Set all the options as you wish f or a singl e device, then click the Sa ve Preset but ton at the bottom of the Print dialog b ox to name and[...]

P   F I     Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 94 Printing Multipl e Ar tboard s There are several impo r t ant con trols for printing ar tboards under the General topic: • Ignore Ar tbo ards: is option print s all the art work on the entire Illustrator canvas and disreg[...]

C    PDF F  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 95 C     PD F F  Illustrator CS5 c an crea te Adob e PDF f iles direc tly , w ithout the need to generat e Post Script and process it through Distiller . T o create a PDF from an Illus trator file, choose File > Save As and[...]

O  I      PDF F   I      Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 96 Creating mul ti- pag e PDFs f rom Multiple Ar tboards If the Illus trator file contains more than one Ar tboard, you ha ve the option to sav e all Ar tboards in a multi-pag e PDF ,[...]

C  , E    ,  N  F    A  X P Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 97 Cha pte r 5 : A dobe A crobat X Pro There are many wa y s to crea te PDFs, a side from creating them from within Adobe Cr eative Suite 5 c omponents , as de[...]

N   I  F     Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 98 Quick T ool s ). Choose additional t ools f rom the le side of the dialo g box an d click the A dd arrow ( ). T o add a separator bar , click the A dd Separator buon ( ). T o mov e tools up and down in the arrang ement, use t[...]

E    PD F Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 9 9 bot tom of the b rowser window. P DF Por t folios open with a s pecial por t folio work area. • Scanni ng Enhancement s: R ecognize t ex t in scanned les w ith im- pro ved optical character reco gnition ( OCR) . Reduc e le size ( by up to 50% ), scan c[...]

E    PD F Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 100 Document Proper tie s Y o u can quic kly dete rmi ne the or igin o f a PDF, as well a s secur it y se ing s and f ont embe dding ch arac teris tic s in th e Docu ment Pro per ti es d ialog box , by choo sing t he De scrip tion o ptio n. i s PDF was e xpo r [...]

O   P    A X P Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 10 1 Document P roper ties/Securit y Any secur it y li mi tatio ns ap pear in t he Securi t y pan e. Even if t he securi t y se ing al lows prin ting , some pro cesse s ( such a s impo sit ion so  ware ) wil l r[...]

A  X P P  P   T    Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 102 Compare Documents Choo se t wo PDFs fo r compar ison , speci f y a pa ge range fo r each, a nd choos e a docume nt desc ript ion — repo r t s, p resen tatio ns , or scan ned docu ment s — and c lick O K[...]

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O P Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 104 T o display a sof t proof: 1. In the Output Preview dialog bo x , choose a prole from the Simu- lation Prole pop-up menu. I n a PDF / X le, the simulation pr ole will be dict ated by the output prole c hosen when the PDF was created. 2 . Select the[...]

O P Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 105 Separation s See all i nk s used i n the l e at a gla nce. Vie w color value s wit h a “rol ling de nsi tome ter” a s you move the po inter o n screen . Note the n ew T otal A rea Coverage value d ispla yed. Show Option s T o highligh t potential pr oblem [...]

O P Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 106 Rich Black , or both. T o chang e the highligh t color for the wa rnings , click the swatch nex t to the warnin g , and selec t a new color from the swatch menu that appea r s. The Overprinting warning high lights areas af fec ted by some blendin g modes , and ar[...]

P  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 107 Click on t ex t, and the font name, font t ype ( for example, Open T ype ), size, col or , and ov erprint st atus are displayed. Every thing under the cursor click is described: cli ck on black text that i s ov erprinting a P M S 1 83 shape, and you’ ll see information a[...]

P  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 108 St andard s Option s in Pre ight Y o u can now choo se to conver t an e xi st ing PDF to a s tanda rds-com plia nt l e. Choo se fro m PDF /X , PD F / A , o r PDF /E. On ce you’ve selec ted the s tanda rd, you can choos e the par ticu lar specication you want. De[...]

P  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 109 proles catego r y a s well. And if you hav e creat ed custom proles , you will also hav e a Custom proles categor y . 3. Selec t a preight prole that mat ches your output criteria. e pro - le description appears under the prole name. Y ou can also c[...]

P  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 110 Embedding an A udit T rail The abilit y to embed an audit trail in a P DF is bas ed on the Ghent W orking Group Standard for pref light tracking. Y ou must r un a full pref light prof ile ( not a single chec k or f ixup ) in order to embed an a udit trail. T o embed a de s[...]

P  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 111 L a yer Fixups Acr obat X Pro inc ludes a group of Fixups devoted t o creatin g and manipulating Lay er s. S elect the Single Fixup but ton for Fixups that creat e dif ferent layers for tex t, graphics , and images ; creat e layer names for unnamed layers; put o verprintin[...]

P  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 112 6. Click Summar y in the le pane t o see a summar y of the error s that the prole will iden tif y . 7. Clic k OK . Acrobat adds the new prole t o the list . Shari ng Prof iles Y ou can share a pref light prof ile with other user s . For exampl e, you can pro vide [...]

T  P  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 113 T o use a droplet, jus t drag a PDF f ile ( or multiple PDF f iles ) onto the Droplet ic on ( ). A crobat pref lights the PDF f iles , generates report s , and mo ves or copies the pr ocess ed f iles you specif ied, ba sed on the ins truc tions in the droplet. T ?[...]

U    I M  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 11 4 Conver t Color s Acroba t X Pro adds m any new f eatu res to the re vamped d ialog, i nclud ing acces s to the In k Manag er . Clic k the blu e arrow u nder D ocume nt Color s to reveal o r hide th e color space s and spot colo rs l is ts . T o[...]

U    I M  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 115 set ting temporar y Ink Manag er options through the Output Preview panel ( which will af fec t ou tput from Acrobat in the c urrent ses sion, but will not cause a permanent chang e to the f ile ), or choosing permanent Ink Manager o ptions thro[...]

S  P  B  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 116 the chang es are not sav ed in the f ile. T his allo ws you to genera te correct output wi thout permanently alt ering the f ile. Con ver t Colors: Using Ink Manager for Permanent Ink Mappings T o mak e Ink Manager c hoices permanent, use the Conv er t Colors func[...]

S  P  B  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 11 7 • Units: Let s you set the unit of measurement point s , picas , millime- ters , centimeters, and inchesfor the pag e dimensions of each box in the thumbnail p review. • Margin Controls: Lets you crop the pag e ( or range of pag es ) to speci- [...]

A P M   Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 118 does not eliminate an y content. L ater , you can chan ge the crop ping specif ication s or return to the bounda ries of the original document. Y ou can al so right - click ( Macint osh: C ontrol-click ) inside the initial croppin g rec tangle, an[...]

P   F    T    Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 11 9 document and r eplace them with a heavier line. Y ou c an also thick en hairlines in T ype 3 font s and Post Script pat terns . 1. Choose the Fix Hairlines option in the Print Production t [...]

P   F    T    Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 120 Acr obat X Pro can save files in dif f erent PDF format ve r sions , some of which retain live transparency. The PDF / X - 1a format is be st for placement int o non-Adobe a pplications that[...]

P   F    T    Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 121 • Line Ar t And T ex t Resolution: Lets you set the resolution applied to areas that need to be rasterized because they are too com plex to be retained in vec tor form based on the curr[...]

P   F    T    Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 12 2 Applying Flat tener Set tings K eep in mind that applyin g f lat tener set tings is the s ame as f lat tening transparenc ya permanent cha nge that canno t be undone. Alt ernatively , yo[...]

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U   J D F   (JDF) Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 124 web ser vers . is option has no bene t for printing , so it can be set on or o. 3. Click OK, name the new optimized PDF le, and specif y a location for it . e original PDF document is uncha nged. Fo[...]

U   J D F   (JDF) Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 12 5 • Clic k New to st ar t creating a new JDF denition. • Clic k Add t o impor t a JDF de nition. • Clic k Remo ve t o delete a denition. • Use Edit to st ar t editing a denition . Us[...]

U   J D F   (JDF) Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 126 Conf iguring JDF f iles T o conf igure a new JDF f ile: 1. Creat e a new JDF le, as de scribed in “C reating JDF les . ” 2 . C lick New in the JDF Job De nitions dialog bo x . en selec t New to cre[...]

E  PD F F  Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 127 JDF T empl ates Y ou can create a JDF f ile for your customer to use as a template. T emplates include media specif ications , PDF con ver sion set tings ( former ly called A crobat Distiller job set tings ), and pref light pro f iles . Conf igure the JDF f i[...]

E  PD F F  Adobe Creative Suite 5 P rinting Guide 128 Edit Objec t T ool The Edit Objec t tool lets you make li mited edit s on images and v ec tor ar t in a PDF . For example, you can per form color c onv ersion s on a selec ted ima ge without using Photoshop . Selec t the image with the Edit Objec t tool, right - cli[...]

C   R       A X P Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 129 Impor ting a PDF into another P DF as a l ay er 1. Open the L a yers N avig ation panel (View > Show /Hide > Navi gation Panes > Layers ). 2 . In the Layers panel, click on the [...]

C   R       A X P Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 130 E-mailin g or uploading a P DF f ile with comment s is less ex pensive and more ef f icient than the har d- cop y process of printing a pr oof, marking it up, shi pping or faxing it to t[...]

C   R       A X P Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 131 When an FDF f ile is opened or impor ted into a PDF documen t, the comments appear in the pr oper places on the pag es . Thi s means that FDF f iles f rom multiple r eviewers c an be imp[...]

P  PDF F Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 132 the e-mail bef ore you send it, if you wish . R ecipients mus t hav e Acroba t X Pro or A dobe Re ader 9 to par ticipat e. The recipient opens the PDF at tached to the e-mail ( or follows the hyperlink t o the f ile on Acr obat .com ). The recipient can sign[...]

P  PDF F Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 133 T o print an Ad obe PDF document: 1. Choose File > Print. Print Di alog Choo se page range a nd scale fac tor, as well as op tion s for p rint ing the con tent of com ment s and fo rms . Cl ick the Ad vanced bu on for m ore opt ions . 2 . C hoose your [...]

P  PDF F Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 13 4 4. In the Col or Management pa nel, se t options for handling c olor: • Col or Handling: Determines if colo r managemen t is u sed and whether it happens in the application or at the printi ng device. • A crobat color ma nagement: Ena bles you to [...]

P  PDF F Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 135 version of the PPD f ile for your output device from the manufac turer . Be sure to store P PDs in the location specif ied by the operating sys tem. This i s usually ac complished by the installer for the printer driver . For detail s, consult the documentat[...]

P  PDF F Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 136 • Discolored Background Co rrec tion: A ddresse s severe discol oration is sues that might oc cur during printin g , such as white backgrounds printing as yell ow . • Alwa ys Use H ost Collation: A llows A crobat t o handle c ollation without inv o[...]

P  PDF F Ado be Cre ati ve Su it e 5 Pri nti ng Gu ide 137 L aye r s Acroba t 6.0 a nd later su ppor t layer s . Bo th In De sign a nd Ill us trator can crea te layered P DF le s , which can be u sef ul f or mana ging m ult iple ver sio ns of con tent . Click t he eyeba ll icon to contro l the vi sibi lit y of a [...]

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