Spiritual books (frustrated! - perhaps I should take my own advice?) 1

[curiouspeter]

Hello Ive asked before but I lost the thread. I write inspirational type books with my own tiff files made in photoshop 7. I then put in text to a quark 5 page with the cut marks for the printer divided into 8 subdiv in an A3 sheet to allow max economy. Now the printer says to put it into print ready adobe acrobat format.
Now how do I do that in easy steps please?

PS I recall in this saga doing it before (but Ive forgotten) and (a) the pictures appeared washed out (b) the colours went to B&W (c) I couldn't seem to get the mm in A3 size

Thanks + God bless
Peter
pietr@poetic.com

 

[duncdude]

You'll probably find that the reason the pictures went greyscale is due to the 'printer' that was selected when making a PDF was a monochrome one


Kind Regards
Duncan

 

[Baddoggy]

Are you writing PDF via Quark or Acrobat?

BD

 

[curiouspeter]

thing is dudes i need steps plus yer emails to reply

 

[feelgood56]

It sounds like your printer is asking you to supply him with 'hi-res' PDFs. As far I know this can only be done using Adobe Distiller (which comes with the full version of Adobe Acrobat)

I assume that if you are using Quark 5 you are either using OS9 or running it in Classic under OSX - either way you need to find an appropriate printer driver to create the postscript file that you then distill.

Check out this site for info on creating Print Quality PDFs

http://www.ppa.co.uk/production/standards/index.asp

It has information on the correct settings for Quark to produce the postscript file and the joboptions file for Distiller to produce a hi-res PDF.