Why You Need the NEW Designer Edition of Best Practice in Creating PDF Files for Variable Data Printing!
Excerpt: PDF is the lingua franca of the print world. We all have tools to create PDF files, but there are times when decisions made during the creative process lead to inefficiencies that can slow production. For designers who want to know how to create PDF that will fly through preflight and prepress on its way to an analogue or digital print process, the PDF Association is delighted to provide guidance. The new Designer Edition of the guide, originally built for software developers whose products prod … Read more
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PDF is the lingua franca of the print world. We all have tools to create PDF files, but there are times when decisions made during the creative process lead to inefficiencies that can slow production. For designers who want to know how to create PDF that will fly through preflight and prepress on its way to an analogue or digital print process, the PDF Association is delighted to provide guidance.
The new Designer Edition of the guide, originally built for software developers whose products produce PDF, looks at the decisions available to designers as they work on creative projects. It suggests the best path toward creating PDF that is efficient and less prone to production problems, saving time and money for the print buyer and the print producer. It begins with an overview of PDF for static and variable data jobs, and then walks through each element.
From the fonts you select and how you specify them to how you handle graphics and images, this guide will help designers understand the best practices for cropping images so that hidden areas don’t add weight to the PDF file. It also addresses some common practices that evolved in design shops during the early days of PDF production and were never updated as the both the production of PDF and the software that renders PDF for printing grew to meet the needs of the market. Transparency, vector graphics, and even barcodes are clearly addressed in terms every designer will understand.
The most important element of the Designer Edition is that it was s created with designers in mind. Most of the deep technical information needed by programmers has been eliminated, and examples have been written with common creative challenges in mind. Download this guide from the PDF Association website and begin your journey towards PDF files that print providers can process efficiently!