For this reason it is important to expand all Pantone and Spot colors to CMYK before saving as a PDF. They also can cause problems when transparency effects are combined with them. Select “Edit” and then “Transparency Flattening Preset”Ģ) Set Raster/Vector Balance to 100 Vectorsģ) Set Line Art and Text Resolution to 2400ppiĤ) Set Gradient and Mesh Resolution to 300ppiĬheck both Convert All Text to Outlines and Convert All Strokes to OutlinesĮxpand Spot Colors (Mandatory for 4color Process Jobs): PMS and other Spot colors may have undesirable color shifts when converted to CMYK. If this is not done lines may appear in the artwork where those effects overlap vector art and placed images. This includes Flattening all transparencies and Expanding all Pantone and Spot colors to CMYK.įlatten Transparency (Optional) will ﬂatten all raster effects, such as drop shadows and feathered boxes and images. It is always a good practice to simplify the document before saving to to PDF. It will also show the best setting to save time when uploading the ﬁles to the our FTP site for printing. This tutorial is designed to show the best way to save an InDesign ﬁle to a PDF, for use with our system.

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