In its rush to promote its web and Flash applications and technologies in the past year or two, Adobe has demoted information available about print. It has let go many valuable people from its staff who focused on the print community, and has discontinued programs which provided information about how to print reliably from the Adobe Creative Suite.
A few days ago, Anne-Marie asked me this question:
I have a magazine publishing client that has moved from Quark to ID and could really use some explanation of best practices for using CS4 in a print production workflow. (They’re asking me questions like, “where do we enter the Frequency setting for our PDFs?” ::::ack::: )
I can’t find anything that mentions CS4-era products in the Print Resources web page:
https://www.adobe.com/studio/print/If you scroll down to “White papers, printing guides, and more,” things seem to have stopped being updated in 2Q 2008. The only paper with the “Updated” tag – Adobe PDF in a Print Production Workflow – is about Acrobat 9 but InDesign CS3. Some of the instructions/screenshots from ID CS3 are not the same in CS4, so I’m hesitant to send my client the link.
It turns out that there is available on the Adobe website a Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide, very well written by Claudia McCue (author of the excellent Real World Print Production with Adobe Creative Suite Applications, Peachpit Press, 2009)
Here’s the link:
https://www.adobe.com/designcenter/cs4/articles/cs4_printguide.html
Why it’s not on the Print Resources web page is a mystery. The document covers common resources in Creative Suite 4, as well as InDesign CS4, Illustrator CS4, Photoshop CS4, and Acrobat 9 Pro. Highly recommended!
This article was last modified on December 20, 2021
This article was first published on March 25, 2010
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