Printing Resolution Limitations 1

[mlallier]

How to make a high resolution PDF 1200 dpi or higher from Indesign.

 

[jmgalvin]

If you're talking about the text resolution, I think 1200 might be the default undr Press quality. The reason I say that is that is the default Press quality in distiller. Also the Monochrome image setting in ID Press export is 1200 - again matching the Distiller Press default.

If your talking about increasing image resolution, go to File/PDF Presets/Press. Inrease downsampling as you like and save that preset for future use.

Adobe's in house Indesign/PDf experts (Adobe employees), actully recommend recommend the Export over Distiller. However, ID does not export grayscale pdfs. If you want that you have to print a postscript file in grayscale and then distill it.

 

[texasjoe]

jmgalvin,

I'm using Acrobat Professional 6.0 and when I go to File --I don't see anything under this menu that says "PDF presets" Is this something that's only avaialable on Acrobat 7?

Joe

 

[jmgalvin]

The presets in Acrobat are handled by Distiller.

Go to Advanced menu/Distiller. That opens the Distiller app. You have a set of presets. If you select one and then go to Settings menu, you can change all, or any of the myriad settings and then save that as a different preset.

Indesign pdf export presets work the samee way, but don't give you as many options.

 

[texasjoe]

Thanks for the tips. I don't know much about distiller -- we just "Adobe PDF" from InDesign using Acrobat, without opening distiller or generating a postscript file. This is the way we were taught to do it. This approach has worked great so far, but it's nice to pick up a little knowledge about the workings of distiller along the way.

Joe

 

[jmgalvin]

On occasion, you have to distill the pdf - depending on output. The most common is newspaper ads where the paper requires grayscale pdf, with the gray color bars.

Others include where you have to do different stuff to the final doc that can only be done through the various controls in the postscript print window.

And, sometimes, you have to avoid CID font encoding that ID export puts in.

In general, direct export works just fine.