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Bleed Tab Settings
Transparency Tab Settings
JDF Tab Settings
Summary Tab Settings
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When pages are output from InDesign, it is the “Paper Size,” not the “Document Size,” that defines the final size of the PDF file. Therefore, the printer “Paper Size” must be a user defined custom size that is proportional to the
InDesign “Document Size.” As with QuarkXPress, the “Paper Size” will be made exactly 1” larger (height and width) than the document to allow space for bleed and all appropriate marks.
Note: The trim and bleed measurements will be used to define the Trim/Bleed boxes in the PDF.
In the below illustrations, we will use defined document size of 8.125” by 10.75” with an .125” bleed. The following illustrations will create a 9.125” by 11.75” that is exactly 1” larger than the InDesign document defined above.
General Tab Settings
Selects Adobe PDF 8.0 printer
Setup Tab Settings
Choose Custom Paper Size, the page width and height are in automatic mode and will self adjust to 1” larger than your defined Document setup when Marks and Bleed tab is setup correctly (refer to next illustration).
Page Position: Centered
Notice how page position changed
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Marks and Bleed Tab Settings
Marks: Turns on basic crop marks and Page information and sets the marks offset and thickness.
Weight: 0.25
Offset: 0.29165
Uses bleed that was setup in the Document
Setup. When unchecked, bleed amount can be specified here.
Output Tab Settings
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Graphics Tab Settings
Sends entire image data to Distiller
Entire font is downloaded
Downloads all fonts, even those specified in
PPD as being resident in printer
Uses PostScript 3 language
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Color Management Tab Settings
Advanced Tab Settings
Create a new “Transparency Flattener” preset using these settings.
Summary Tab
Saves your presets so you do not have to reconfigure each individual tab everytime you go to print a page.
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When pages are directly exported from InDesign, Adobe automatically adds an extra .83” to the document size to allow for bleed area, registration marks, etc. When creating PostScript from InDesign, we have you create a custom paper size that is 1” larger than the document size. Unfortunately, Adobe does not allow us to control this setting during export and, by default, they add the above mentioned .83” to it. So a document size of 8.125” by 10.75”, with an .125” bleed, will create a final PDF page with a Media Box (paper size) of 8.955” x 11.58”. Using the settings below, the exported PDF file from your
InDesign CS document will be perfectly centered within the page.
The following is the sequence of settings we recommend you use to direct export PDF from InDesign CS3. These settings will create a PDF/X-1a:2001 compliant file that will automatically flatten all transparency and layers during the export process. For more information about transparency and flattening, refer to the Transparency in PDF section located in Appendix A, starting on
page 4 of this document.
Adobe PDF Presets Window
General Tab Settings
Compression Tab Settings*
* These guideline settings will apply JPEG compression (lossy) to images and ZIP compression
(lossless) to screen captures. These guideline settings will also down-sample all color and grayscale images above 300 dpi to 300 dpi.
Quad/Graphics suggest these settings because we found that this compression setting provides smaller file sizes without compromising quality.
Refer to Appendix B for alternative (ZIP, no compression, downsampling) image tab settings.
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Marks and Bleeds Tab Settings
Offset: 0.29165
If the bleed was not predefined in the document setup, you must uncheck
Use Document Bleed Settings and manually enter in the proper bleed amount.
If grayed out bleed measurements are set to zero (0), this indicates that the bleed was not defined in the document setup and therefore the bleed will need to be entered manually.
Advanced Tab Settings
Create a new “Transparency
Flattener” preset using these settings.
Summary Tab Settings
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