Acrobat How-To: Making PDF/X Files in Acrobat 6 Professional
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PDF files can wear many hats, depending if your final destination is print output, onscreen viewing, or Web download. While that versatility is what makes the PDF format so popular, it can also lead to file-preparation nightmares. The PDF/X standard was created to help head off common prepress mistakes like missing fonts and incorrect color. Yet how to make PDF/X files isn’t a well-known practice outside the professional prepress community.
That’s about to change with the inclusion of and support for the PDF/X standard in Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional. Now designers can make PDF files that are up-to-snuff for the most demanding print conditions.
This article will tell you what you need to know about the PDF/X standard as well as how to generate and preflight PDF/X files in Adobe Acrobat 6 Professional and Distiller. It was written exclusively for creativepro.com by Gray Knowlton, product manager for Adobe Acrobat who specializes in the creative markets. Save it for future reference.
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