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The Normalized PDF format contains all the Esko metadata necessary to ensure compatibility with your Esko workflow:
• list of linked images,
• barcode information,
• placed CAD graphics metadata,
• inks information,
... and other document properties.
3.3.2 Saving a File as Normalized PDF
To save your Illustrator file as Normalized PDF using PDF Export:
1. Go to File > Export...
2. In the dialog that opens, choose your file’s name and location, and choose the Normalized
PDF (pdf) format.
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3. Click Export.
4. In the PDF Export Settings dialog that opens, fill in the export settings (see
PDF Export
Settings
on page 32).
5. Click OK to export the file.
PDF Export Settings
When exporting your files to the Normalized PDF format, you need to set the PDF Export
Settings.
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Preset
Using Presets you can store and reuse the settings for the PDF Export dialog.
You can save the current settings as a Preset by selecting Save... and entering a name. The
location for the Presets is defined in the PDF Export Preferences. See
PDF Export Preferences
on page 40
You can load a Preset by selecting it in the dropdown.
If you set the Preset to Default, the parameters as set in the PDF Export Preferences will be used. See
PDF Export Preferences
on page 40.
If the current settings are not saved as a setting, the Preset dropdown will show "Custom".
Images and Linked Files
1. In the Images and Linked Files group, choose to either Embed Images in the Normalized
PDF, or Save Links to the images.
• If you choose to embed the images, you don’t have any more preferences to fill in and you can just click OK.
Note: This doesn’t save the images’ link information (except for linked ArtiosCAD graphics, see
Linked ArtiosCAD Graphics
on page 40).
• If you choose to use linked images, fill in the other preferences of the dialog.
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2. Enable Add Preview (max 72 DPI) if you want your Normalized PDF to have a low resolution preview of the linked images.
This preview allows you to view the linked images when opening your file in Acrobat
™
for example.
3. Choose where to copy the linked images:
• Choose Copy Images Next To Output File to copy them next to the folder in which you will save the Normalized PDF (so other applications like ArtPro or PackEdge can still open them when the links are broken).
• Choose Use Links And Apply Server Mapping to keep the images where they are but update the links (for example if the images are in a shared folder located on a different machine).
4. When choosing Use Links And Apply Server Mapping, fill in a Server Mapping if the share names on the client machine and on the other server do not match.
a) When checked, Copy Links If Not On File Servers verifies if linked images are already on fileservers and if they are not, copies them along with the exported Normalized PDF file. Choosing this option also enables the File Servers... button where you add the machines that store linked images so that Esko workflow servers can find them.
For more information, see
What is a Server Mapping?
and
Adding a Server Mapping
.
OPI and Server Mapping
When you click Settings in the OPI and Server Mapping group of the PDF Export
Preferences dialog of Data Exchange Preferences, the OPI and Server Mapping dialog
appears:
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Note:
This dialog is available only when you have chosen to Save Links in exported Normalized
PDF files. When you export a Normalized PDF, OPI Mapping is applied first and then Server
Mapping.
Servers
The top pane of the dialog configures Server Mappings. You need to use Server Mappings when the Normalized PDF you output:
• has linked images that are located on a different machine (file server),
• will be used on another machine (not your local machine or the file server).
Server Mappings allow you to map the image links from one share name to another automatically on output. This ensures that the links are not broken when the Normalized PDF is used on another machine.
For example:
• the linked images are saved on a file server called “Server”, in a shared folder called
“Images”,
• your copy of Illustrator with PDF Export is on a Mac, and the shared folder containing the images is mounted as “Hi-Res_Images”.
• the Normalized PDF you export will be used on a PC, where the shared folder containing the images is mounted as “Shared_Images”.
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The link to an image called “My_Image.psd” is “Server/Hi-Res_Images/My_Image.psd” on the Mac, and should be “\\Server\Shared_Images\My_Image.psd” on the PC.
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When adding the Server Mapping in the OPI And Server Mapping dialog, you should enter the Share Details as follows by:
• name of the file server in Server Name,
• name of the shared folder containing the images as seen from your local Mac in
Local
Share,
• name of the shared folder containing the images as seen from the other PC in
Server
Share.
Note:
• You can use subfolders in a Server Mapping.
• You can also use Server Mappings to replace images (for example to swap low-resolution
for high-resolution images
when the low-resolution and high-resolution images have
identical separations).
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To add the Server Mapping, do the following:
1. In the OPI And Server Mapping dialog, click the plus sign button to the lower left of the
Servers pane. This opens the Share Details dialog.
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2. Enter or choose the name of the file server containing your linked images in Server Name.
3. Enter or choose the name of the file server’s share containing your linked images as it
appears on your local machine in Local Share.
4. Enter the name of the file server’s share containing your linked images as it appears on
the other machine that will use your Normalized PDF in Server Share.
5. If you want to add another Server Mapping (to use your Normalized PDF on yet another machine), repeat steps 1 to 4.
To edit a Server Mapping, double-click it. To remove a Server Mapping, select it and click the minus button to the lower left of the Servers pane.
OPI Mapping
The lower half of the OPI And Server Mapping dialog configures OPI Mapping, which defines the rules for image substitution when exporting a Normalized PDF in a more specific way than
Server Mapping. OPI stands for Open Press Interface.
To add an OPI mapping, do the following:
1. Click the plus sign to the lower left of the list pane. This opens the OPI Rule Editor dialog.
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2. After the word If, decide how many conditions that must be true for this mapping rule to take effect: All, Any, or None.
3. For the condition In the top pane of the dialog, choose the element of the image file’s path to examine in the first field. Image paths are in URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) format, such as file://mymac/MacHD/images/lowres/tests/Spacebar_CMYK.eps. As you select elements, further controls appear on the same line to refine the condition. For example, if you choose Full Path Is, you can click ... to browse for a folder, or click x to revert to the previous folder. To add a condition, click +; to remove a condition, click -.
4. Once you have defined the conditions, define the changes to the path in the lower pane of the window. Use the same process to define the changes as you did to define the conditions: choose the change, then set its options on the same line. To add a change, click
+; to remove a change, click -.
5. Click OK to finish defining the rule.
6. To add another rule, click +; to remove a rule, click -.
Consider again this example URI file name: file://ImageServer/LOWRES/images/lowres/ tests/Spacebar_CMYK.eps.
• The condition Extension, Is Equal To, EPS will match.
• Folder Name, Starts With, lowres/ will match. You can specify the text ending with / to state that it must be the entire Folder name and to make sure that directories starting with
(for example) lowres plus/ will not match.
• Server Name, Is Equal To, imageserver will also match as the case is not compared.
When you use more than one condition in a rule, the Replace 1st Matching Part Of Path and
Replace 2nd Part Of Matching Path changes become effective.
Consider this file: file://Serv/SharedImg/LORESIMAGES/ANIMALS/LOWRES/ myimage.eps
• with conditions of Folder Name, Contains, LORESIMAGES, and Folder Name, Contains,
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• and changes of Replace 1st Matching Part Of Path, HIGHRESIMAGES, and Replace 2nd
Part Of Matching Path, HIGHRES.
The first change will replace LOWRESIMAGES with HIGHRESIMAGES (since it was first), and the second change will replace LOWRES with HIGHRES.
Notes and Restrictions
To copy the OPI settings between computers so they all are the same, copy AE10-
OPISettings.prefs. In Windows, that file can be at C:\Documents and Settings
\username\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CSx Settings, but its exact location depends on the type of login (local or domain) and Illustrator version (CSx where x is a number). On the Mac, this file is normally in Users/username/Library/Preferences/
Adobe illustrator CSx Settings/. Copy the file to the same location on the target machines.
There are a few restrictions when using OPI Mapping:
• The high-resolution images must be accessible from the client workstation.
• Ink Manager will not show extra inks that are present in the high-resolution images.
• When exporting the file using Shuttle, only the inks from Ink Manager are shown, not any extra ones present in the high-resolution images.
• PDF Export, Viewer for Illustrator, and PowerTrapper Client and Standalone will use the high-resolution images and will know about any extra inks.
Trim Box and Other Settings
Trim Box
In the Trim Box (Borders) group of the PDF Export Preferences dialog, the Trim Box
(Borders) drop-down list lets you choose how the edge of the exported PDF file is chosen: using the Trim Box from Document, using the Current Artboard, or by using the Artwork
Bounding Box.
Fit Media Box to Artwork expands or shrinks the Media Box as appropriate.
Other
Outline All Text converts all text to outlines.
Include Hidden Objects and Layers includes hidden objects when the PDF file is exported.
Include Notes allows to include annotations in the PDF. This option is only available in combination with the PDF Import plug-in.
If Expand Patterns is selected, patterns will be replaced by actual objects. The path containing the pattern fill, will then be filled with the objects as defined in the pattern.
Contourize Bitmaps will convert 1-bit images (linked or embedded) into vectors.
Convert Blended Objects to Images will convert blended objects to images. You can set the resolution for this images to High (600dpi), Medium (300dpi) or Low (150dpi)
Note: In case of converting blended objects with different oveprint setting (one is overprinting, the other is not), the convertion might change the final result. The following message is shown:
"Rasterized Blend combines art in overprint and not in overprint mode. Rasterization may have caused changed appearance."
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