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Adobe Creative Suite Printing Guide
Adobe® Creative Suite® Printing Guide
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
What This Guide Is Intended to Do . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
How This Guide Is Structured . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 1: Common Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The Adobe PDF Print Engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Adobe Graphics Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
PDF Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
PDF Settings: An overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Settings Available From Within
Individual Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Helping Customers Prepare Files for Submission . . . . . . . . 9
Transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Color Management in Creative Suite 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
OpenType Font Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Chapter 2: Adobe InDesign CS6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
InDesign CS6: New Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Features Introduced in CS5/5 .5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Preparing InDesign Documents for Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Links Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25
Text Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Rotated Spread Viewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Using the InDesign Forensic Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Preflight Profile Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Finding Problems: Additional Forensic Tools . . . . . . . . . . .38
Color Management Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Working With a Book File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Creating PDF Files From InDesign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
Printing from InDesign . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
Helping Customers Prepare InDesign Files . . . . . . . . . . . . .52
Chapter 3: Adobe Photoshop CS6 and
Photoshop CS6 Extended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Photoshop CS6: New Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
General Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58
Color mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Image Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64
Printing from Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Chapter 4: Adobe Illustrator CS6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Illustrator CS6: New Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74
Helpful Existing Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Working with Multiple Artboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78
Working with Text from Previous
Versions of Illustrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80
Saving For Previous Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Document Color Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82
Live Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83
Handling complex files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Examining Customer Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
Forensic Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90
Printing From Illustrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92
Creating PDF Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94
Opening Illustrator PDF Files in Illustrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96
Chapter 5: Adobe Acrobat X Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Changes in Acrobat X Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
New and Improved Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Examining PDFs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99
Overprint Preview in Acrobat X Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
Comparing Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
Acrobat X Pro Print Production Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Acrobat Distiller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Output Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Preflight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107
Trap Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Convert Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Using the Ink Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Set Page Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Adding Printer Marks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Fixing Hairlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Previewing and Flattening Transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Using the Job Definition Format (JDF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Editing PDF Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Comment and Review features in Acrobat X Pro . . . . . 129
Printing PDF Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Links To Known Issues And Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137
Addendum: Adobe Acrobat XI Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Toolbar Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Improved Text and Image Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Customize Tools and Tool Panes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141
Improved Export to Other Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Print Production Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Additions to Commenting Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Changes to Adobe Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Flash Player Required to View SWF and Portfolios . . . .147
Links To Known Issues And Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147
Adobe Creative Suite 6 Printing Guide i
Introduction
Welcome to the Adobe® Creative Suite® 6 Printing Guide . Adobe is
dedicated to providing software that allows designers to express their
visual ideas, while providing tools and resources to printers to ensure
that those ideas print as intended . While designers explore the creative
features of Adobe Photoshop® CS6, Adobe InDesign® CS6, and Adobe
Illustrator® CS6, as well as the capabilities of Acrobat® X and XI Pro,
printers need to take a rather different approach . You might call it
“reverse engineering”— inspecting, analyzing, and, if necessary,
modifying customer files to facilitate printing . While this document is
focused on the needs and requirements of printers, it is also useful for
production artists who are preparing files for print .
Some modifications (for example, replacing solid black areas with a rich
black build, or converting RGB text to black-only) are dictated by the
physical requirements of printing . Some tweaks may be necessary to
accommodate a particular raster image processor (RIP) or imaging
device . Not all workflows are the same, and solutions vary accordingly .
Regardless of your particular workflow, the more you know about the
tools used by designers to create files, the better equipped you are to
anticipate, prevent, find, and fix problems . In addition, you’ll be better
able to advise your customers as they prepare files for submission .
pinpoint problems in a job, the less expensive and complicated they are
to rectify .
As RIPs have matured, there are fewer issues with jobs containing
transparency . The advent of pure PDF workflows based on the Adobe
PDF Print Engine will result in more reliable reproduction of PDF
content—that is, greater consistency and fidelity to the designer’s
intent . For example, transparency effects in InDesign CS6, such as
gradient feather, glow, and inner shadow effects, image without the
need for flattening when output through a PDF Print Engine-based RIP .
You’ll find guidance in this document for identifying such effects and for
preparing jobs to correctly render them during output . Additionally,
you’ll find links to other available reference materials that cover such
topics in depth .
How This Guide Is Structured
Some technologies and concepts—such as PDF creation, transparency,
and the Adobe Graphics Model—are common across the Adobe
products used for print design and production in Creative Suite 6 . You’ll
find information about such topics in the “Common Resources” chapter .
This document is organized so that you can quickly find information
about specific software . As a job enters production in a printing plant,
its path varies according to the conventions of the particular plant, as
well as the requirements of the job . But because many jobs involve the
aggregation of artwork and text in an InDesign CS6 layout, it makes
sense to treat InDesign as a “hub,” and Photoshop, Illustrator, and
Acrobat as related spokes . As the applications themselves are deeply
integrated, you’ll find cross references that mirror the interdependent
ecosystem of the Creative Suite . For example, it’s not enough to know
how to place an image in InDesign: you also need to know how certain
What This Guide Is Intended to Do
This guide serves as both a detailed technical reference for handling
Creative Suite 6 files from your customers, and as a training tool for
your staff .
For example, this guide will introduce you to forensic tools, such as the
Overprint Preview option in Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat X Pro, as
well as the Output Preview function in Acrobat, all of which are
invaluable in highlighting potential problems . The earlier you can
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aspects of a Photoshop image (such as opacity, blending modes, or
vector content) will print from InDesign .
Because an Adobe PDF is often the final product of the job, Acrobat
wraps up this guide . You’ll find advice for generating PDFs in the
“Common Resources” chapter, with additional application-specific
information in sections on individual applications . The Acrobat section
will familiarize you with the preview, preflight, and editing tools
available in Acrobat X Pro .
Additional resources are included throughout and at the end of this
guide, to help you locate specific information online .
How This Guide Is Structured
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Chapter 1:
Common Resources
The integration between components in the Creative Suite 6 family
allows for such productivity enhancing features as shared color
management settings, common PDF presets files, shared color
swatches, and the ability to use native files—such as Photoshop .psd,
Illustrator .ai, Acrobat .pdf, and even InDesign .indd formats—as
artwork . Since there is so much “common ground,” this section
addresses features and issues that are the same across many of the
Creative Suite 6 components .
For more information on the Adobe PDF Print Engine and the partners
who market RIPs and workflow systems incorporating it, see
http://www .adobe .com/products/pdfprintengine .
Adobe Graphics Model
The Adobe Graphics Model ensures consistent rendering and display of
color and transparency effects in Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign and
Acrobat . It is essentially a software RIP that processes graphics
instructions and displays the results on screen . The Adobe Graphics
Model allows InDesign to consistently display placed raster and vector
art at full resolution, as if you were viewing the original art in Photoshop
or Illustrator . It also enables you to view realistic rendering of
overprinting and special effects such as opacity settings and blending
modes .
The Adobe PDF Print Engine
The Adobe PDF Print Engine is not a shrink-wrapped product . It is a
printing platform based on PDF and other Adobe core technologies .
OEM RIPs and workflow systems incorporating the PDF Print Engine
can process PDF files natively (without converting data to PostScript® or
a proprietary intermediate format), thus maintaining live transparency .
Being able to use native, unconverted (and unflattened) PDF files
throughout a workflow provides a complete, end-to-end PDF
environment that uses common technology to generate, preview, and
print PDF files .
The Adobe PDF Print Engine combines the strengths of Adobe PDF for
content definition and the Job Description Format (JDF) standard for
job ticketing and process control in powering RIP and workflow
systems . Available in printing systems from Adobe print solution
partners, the Adobe PDF Print Engine enhances output consistency
throughout the workflow, improving overall print productivity and
profitability . Adobe PDF Print Engine 2 extends these benefits to
production workflows for Variable Data Printing (VDP) used in
personalized publishing (e .g . direct marketing), and output to a digital
color press, via the PDF/VT ISO standard .
PDF Creation
The Adobe PDF Library is used consistently by Creative Suite 6
components which generate PDFs natively . Consequently, Illustrator,
InDesign, and Photoshop can directly generate PDF files without the
need for Acrobat Distiller® . Of course, Distiller is still available to convert
PostScript files into PDFs if necessary, but directly exporting PDF files is
the recommended method of creating PDF files . It’s faster and easier to
generate PDF files through direct export and, in addition, if you wish to
maintain live transparency (if your RIP supports it, as all Adobe PDF
Print Engine-based RIPs do), directly exporting PDFs is the only way to
do so .
The Adobe PDF Print Engine
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