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Illustrator PDF Export

Below is an illustrated guide on Exporting to a Print Ready PDF from Illustrator.

File -> Save As

Choose the location and filename for the desired PDF. Set your Format to ‘Adobe PDF’

General Tab:

Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities
View PDF after Exporting

Compression Tab:

Color Images:
      Bicubic Downsampling to 317 ppi (for images above 350 ppi)
      Compression: Zip
Grayscale Images:
      Bicubic Downsampling to 317 ppi (for images above 350 ppi)
      Compression: Zip
Monochrome Images:
      Bicubic Downsampling to 1200 ppi (for images above 1800 ppi)

Compress text and Line Art

Marks and Bleeds Tab:

Trim Marks
Printer Mark Type Roman
Weight: 0.25pt
Offset: 0.083 in

Bleeds
Set Bleeds to 0.25 in for all four sides (Top, Bottom, Left and Right)

Output Tab:

Color Conversion: No Conversion
Profile Inclusion Policy: Include Tagged Source Profiles

(Please do not use any restriction passwords, as this will possibly affect our ability to output your file)

For Future Reference you can “Save Preset” for future use. We recommend saving this preset as “PacBlue”. Once saved you will notice under the drop down at the top of the Export Adobe PDF window a PacBlue preset that retains all the settings noted above.

An Acrobat JobOptions file with the ‘PacBlue’ settings predetermined can be downloaded here.

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