Reply To: PDF Exporting for Digital Print

September 30, 2016 at 8:13 am #88752

Keymaster

You can still have spot colors, even if you are speccing them as CMYK. See: https://creativepro.com/ink-manager-forget-step-exporting-pdf.php

I much prefer placing PDF files (or even AI files) to EPS: https://creativepro.com/tiff-vs-psd-vs-eps-vs-pdf-vs.php

Creating a rasterized PDF makes no sense to me. Why not just export it as a PNG or JPEG? You lose all your vectors, which is bad.

I believe most digital printers do not require flattening. I suggest exporting as a PDF/X-4 file and then printing from Acrobat to your printer.

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