Adobe 65023809 Printing Guide - Page 71

Photoshop PDF To preserve vector content, start with the High Quality Print preset. Turn off Optimize for Fast Web Preview, and turn off compression and downsampling. The goal is to preserve all the original Photoshop data, but encase it in a PDF wrapper for proper rendering by other applications. For these types of files, instruct your customers to start with the High Quality Print PDF preset, and then modify it a bit in the interest of image integrity. • For General options, select Preserve Photoshop Editing Capabilities so the file can be reopened in Photoshop. This option does increase file size, but is required to maintain all layers and to allow future editing of vector and text content. • Deselect Optimize for Fast Web Preview. While this doesn't impair content fidelity or editability, it's unnecessary in a print workflow. • For Compression options, choose Do Not Downsample, and set Compression to None, to avoid any loss of data. • Leave the Output and Security options at the default settings. Because the saved file has a .pdf file extension, double-clicking the file to open it launches Adobe Acrobat, not Photoshop. Using the InDesign Edit Original function also opens the file in Acrobat. To edit such files in Photoshop instead, launch Photoshop and then choose File > Open to open the file. After editing the file in Photoshop, you then must manually update links to such files in InDesign or Illustrator. Printing from Photoshop Some of the options available to you when printing from Photoshop depend on the features of the target device. Choose File > Print to open the Print dialog box. The dialog box is divided into two sections; the preview and general options are in the left section, and the Color and Output options (available through a pop-up menu) are in the right section. General options The general options include scaling and position options to determine how the image prints relative to the chosen media. Print Dialog Box- General Options Choose options for position and scale of output. To reposition the image on the media, deselect the Center Image option and either enter coordinates in the Top and Left fields, or drag the image thumbnail in the media window at the left. For scale factor, enter a percentage value or height and width dimensions, or drag on a corner of the thumbnail. Scaling: When you print to a page larger than the document's size, you can scale the image to fit the media. Photoshop allows you to do so visually, manually by height and width dimensions, or automatically to fit the media (which may be enlargement or reduction, depending on the size of the image and the size of the media). Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 69