About Glen Demers Expertise I can answer questions about creating pdf's for print.
Experience I've been working in the prepress industry for 25 years and am currently a prepress technician for Best Printing Online
I've worked with Acrobat since 1994 and am familiar with the current version.
Education/Credentials Some college training in printing and have attended numerous seminars.
Question QUESTION: I am using AppleWorks 6.2 and Adobe Acrobat 5.0 to create PDFs on my Mac, system 9.2. When I insert a photo into AppleWorks, it looks super clear on screen. When I make a PDF of the document, the photo looks much worse. Is there a setting on the Adobe Acrobat to make sure the photos come out as nice as the original? I looked for dots per square inch but coudn't find it. Thanks!
ANSWER: Hi David,
In Distiller make sure you have the press or print joboptions selected. You can also go to settings in Distiller and under the compression tab uncheck all the downsample options, this will leave your images untouched but the pdf's may be larger.
Hope this helps,
Glen Demers
Prepress Technician, Best Printing Online
www.bestprintingonline.com
For more Acrobat tips please visit our help pages <a href="http://www.bestprintingonline.com/submitting-pdf.htm">here</a>
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QUESTION: One or both of your suggestions worked. Thanks! Now the 2nd and last problem is this: 8x10 is fine. But when I format the AppleWorks document (page setup) to be 8x5 (and this takes quite a bit of tweaking of the text and pictures) and I change it to a PDF (Print to PDF), the PDF is not at all centered. My doc appears in the upper left corner of the PDF. Is there any way to make the AppleWorks document (5x8) look centered on the PDF? I hope you can answer this.
ANSWER: Hi David,
I'm not familiar with AppleWorks, but generally you should see if there is a page set-up button available when you create your pdf or go to File>Page Set up and make the page size 5 x 8 there. In Distiller you can go to settings and make the default page size 5 x 8 then save these settings, name them 'Print5x8' or something similar and make sure that this is the joboptions file selected in Distiller.
Hope this helps,
Glen Demers
Prepress Technician, Best Printing Online
www.bestprintingonline.com
For more Acrobat tips please visit our help pages <a href="http://www.bestprintingonline.com/submitting-pdf.htm">here</a>
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QUESTION: In Distiller do you mean Settings/job options: default page size? (Mine shows width 612 height 792.) It doesn't offer "Legal, letter, etc" Otherwise in Print to PDF the page sizes are as follows: Letter, Legal, A3, A4, B5. There is no 8x5 option. Although there is 8x5 in AppleWorks. So I am not sure of what to do here.
Answer Hi David,
Yes, I meant Settings/joboptions. If you change units to inches instead of points it'll make more sense, sorry
If you can set the page size in Appleworks, that will be where you should do it, either through page set up or custom page size if 5 x 8 isn't available. Distiller will use the page size specified in the application.
Hope this helps,
Glen Demers
Prepress Technician, Best Printing Online
www.bestprintingonline.com
For more Acrobat tips please visit our help pages <a href="http://www.bestprintingonline.com/submitting-pdf.htm">here</a
