Client Guidelines forElectronic Prepress

Mac/Windows Indesign CS (3.0)Guidelines for PDF Files

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These instructions are intended for files that are one color (black). If your job contains colors other than Black, please contact Thomson-Shore for further information. The dialog boxes shown in these instructions were generated from a Macintosh computer running OS X. The screen captures should be the same on a Windows computer so you can follow this guide for creating PDF files from a Windows operating system as well.

Open up your book in Indesign. Go to File and Export. (Right)

Name your file using proper naming conventions. (Below)Formats: Should be set to Adobe PDF.Choose a location to save the file to on your hard drive or net-work drive and click Save.

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GeneralStart by selecting the Press preset.

General (continued)Select the Pages: that you want to make into a PDF. Select All pages if you are converting the whole file.

Compatibility should be set to Acrobat 6.0.

Optimize for Fast Web View should be checked. All other Options should be unchecked.

Click on Compression.

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CompressionThis page should be already setup. You will need to check Crop Image Data to Frames. It should now match the screen shot to the left.

Click on Marks & Bleeds.

Marks & BleedsCheck Crop Marks, Registration Marks, and Page Information if you have any pages in the book that bleed.

Weight should be .25pt and Offset should be 12pt (.1667”).

Bleed should be set to .125”

If you don't have any bleeds in the text, you don't need the Marks and the bleed should be set to zero.

Click on Advanced.

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SummaryThis area just shows a list of all the settings we just went through. You can click on Save Summary and send that file along with your PDF. If we have problems we can use this file to see if any of the settings were set incorrectly.

Click on Export. The PDF file should start generating.

Open the PDF file and go through each page to make sure it is correct. If it looks fine you can send it to Thomson-Shore. If something doesn’t look right try and figure out what happened. If you can’t contact Thomson-Shore.

AdvancedColor should be set to Leave Unchanged.

Fonts should be set to sub-set below 100%

OPI should all be unchecked.

Click on Security.

SecurityYou should not have any security turned on here. If you do we may not be able to work with the file.

Click on Summary.