Print Technical Documentation
Print Service Provider documentation is divided into three topic areas:
- Adobe InDesign CS2 printing guide for prepress service providers (PDF: 8.2M) This document is useful as both a detailed technical reference for handling InDesign CS2 jobs from your customers, and as a training tool for your staff.
- Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Printing Guide (PDF: 5M) Get the information you need to properly create, identify, preview, and correct common problems found in PDF files meant for print production.
- Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional Output Guide for Print Service Providers (PDF: 2.3M) Discover the features and tools you need to meet your specific file-processing needs as well as the requirements of the print industry.
- Adobe Illustrator CS Printing Guide for Service Providers (PDF: 2.3M) This document will guide you through every aspect of the printing process in Illustrator CS including working with other Adobe and non-Adobe applications, setting up documents for print, troubleshooting, and getting the best output.
- Adobe InDesign 2.0 Printing Guide for Service Providers (PDF: 5M) This document serves both as a detailed technical reference for handling InDesign 2.0 jobs from our customers, and as a training tool for your staff.
- Professional Printing with Adobe Illustrator® CS (PDF: 1.2M) Consult this white paper for an overview of the new professional printing features in Illustrator CS.
- PDF/X Files and Adobe Creative Suite 2 (PDF: 1.4M) Get details on preparing and outputting PDF/X files in Adobe Creative Suite 2.
- How to Create Adobe PDF Files for Print and Press (PDF: 1.9M) Use this guide to learn the basic steps of creating Adobe PDF 1.5 (Acrobat 6.0) files for high-end output using a range of applications.
- Streamlining Pro Graphics Workflow: Illustrator CS and Adobe PDF (PDF: 1.7M) Find out how Illustrator CS uses Adobe PDF to stream-line graphics creation, review, and printing.
- The Adobe PDF workflow: Saving time and money with PDF in print (PDF: 1.4M) In a PDF workflow, all of the com-ponents of a print job are captured into a single file. Read about how this approach makes it possible to proof, deliver, and print from the same, compact Adobe® PDF file.
- PDF/X-1a and Acrobat 6.0 Professional (PDF:500k) Learn how to create PDF/X-1a files, a new standard for blind-exchange of final print-ready documents.
- Color workflows for Adobe Creative Suite 2 (PDF: 4.5M) Learn how to achieve consistent color within Adobe Creative Suite 2.
- Getting started with transparency (PDF: 4.3M) Give this document to customers to provide basic information about creating and printing transparency effects using Adobe Creative Suite 2 software.
- A designer's guide to transparency for print output (PDF: 6.4M) Offer design customers in-depth information about the proper creation of transparency effects, as well as how to export and print files with transparency.
- Transparency in Adobe applications: A print production guide (PDF: 2.7M) This reference and troubleshooting guide for print service providers presents information on obtaining consistent, high-quality output from files containing objects created with the transparency features in Adobe professional publishing products.
