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Customize your Adobe PDF files with styles
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Styles make it easy to create Adobe PDF files for varied uses. You start with an Adobe® InDesign™ document that works well both on-screen and printed. Then you can create styles for different output.
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Create a new PDF style.
Open an InDesign document and choose File > Define PDF Style. Click New and name the style. We named our style Screen Optimized.
A screen-optimized style creates PDF files ideally suited for displaying on the Web or an intranet, or for distributing through an e-mail system for online viewing.
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Specify PDF settings.
Use the Next and Previous buttons to navigate between the different panels. Select settings that save as much of the information about the original document as you need for your final output.
To create a screen-optimized PDF style, select PDF Options from the menu at the top of the dialog box, and then select RGB from the Color menu. For Images, select Low Resolution. Click Next to display the Compression panel. Change Color Bitmap Images and Grayscale Bitmap Images to 72 DPI, and Monochrome Bitmap Images to 300 DPI.
When you're finished, click OK once to save your new style, but keep the Define PDF Styles dialog box open for the next style.
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Base another PDF style on the previous one.
In the Define PDF Styles dialog box, select the style you just created. Click New, and then name the style after a task in your workflow. We chose a copy-proofing task, in which we'll omit all imported graphics.
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