Reply To: editing press ready PDF

I don't work in prepress anymore, but we never edited a clients PDF without their consent or their sign off on supplied proofs. It's just too risky.

If you do edit a client's PDF make sure you talk to them about that issue and see if they can resolve it and supply a new PDF. If not, then any fixes from your end you should be supplying them with proofs that they can sign off on.

One of our print providers tries to supply us with lo-res PDF of the PDF file I sent over, which is something I can't sign off on. If the printers want me to sign off on something they need to send me physical proofs that have gone through their system.

Nothing else will do.