Writing PDF

[elsh5]

Hi!,

I was trying to find it on the forum, but unfortunately, I couldn't...

I am working on Mac with InDesign CS. Usually, I export from File menu... and get high resolution PDF, which I am sending to the Printers. But once, one of the printers told me, that I am not doing the right thing. That I have to write first Postscript file and then Distill it.
What is a proper way to do it - not to have any problems with the file later?

Thanks in a advance.

 

[MarcusStringer]

Now days I don't think it matters much.
I always go to postscript then distill into a pdf.
Just out of habbit, and I think it makes a more stable PDF

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au

 

[jimoblak]

There is some good material by Adobe representative Dov Isaacs on adobeforums.com about PDF. It is posted near the top of the Mac InDesign forum. The Adobe propaganda seems to prefer exporting to PDF as opposed to distilling a postscript file. Dov indicates that the direct export to PDF does not go through the mishmash of googledydoo that the postscript to Distiller process requires. This stance might also be marketing language to exalt InDesign's native PDF export above Quark 6's silly implementation.

I only print to postscript and distill if there is some glitch in my document that prevents InDesign's own PDF export.

Did the prepress folks tell you that you are doing it wrong after you told them how you do it? ...or did they find a real problem with your file?

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[elsh5]

Yeah,

They told me, that the file was corrupted. They could print it from Acrobat, but during pre-press they bring everything into Quark, and then they print it. And in this case they could not print at all. They were getting error messages. So that is why they asked me how I write my PDF.... and so on...

 

[jimoblak]

Why don't they print from Acrobat during pre-press? Your file is fine with any professional printer. It appears that your current printer is the one that is corrupted if they only impose with PDFs placed in Quark.

What they are asking you to do is to dumb-down the PDF to something Quark can parse. If you wanted dumbed-down, you would have designed the thing in Quark. They are most likely choking on transparency features in InDesign and Acrobat that Quark cannot dream of handling.

If you want to do the right thing, seek another printer that knows how to handle InDesign - - or at least has real imposition software so that they can print from Acrobat.

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Why is everyone in this forum responding to me as picklefish?

 

[MarcusStringer]

Once again jimoblak is correct.
Professional Print houses are set up to handle almost every type of file you could throw at them.
They should be running some really expensive piece of pre-press software like Preps, Barco etc which can handle almost anything and impose almost anything.
They they are imposing it through Quark then it is their problem they can't work with your file, not yours.

I'd be looking at other printers if I were you.

Marcus

http://www.midlandtypesetters.com.au