This ppt is a lengthy overview of what goes in to creating pdfs, and what sometimes makes them difficult for printing. There is some good information on how to create high quality pdfs that are up to ISO standards.

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5. a pdf is just a pdf , right ?

6. but, did you know ?

7. (1996) – PDF 1.2 / Acrobat 3.0 (2005) – PDF 1.6 / Acrobat 7.0 (1994) – PDF 1.1 / Acrobat 2.0 In 1993 Adobe first released the PDF 1.0 / Acrobat 1.0 format. (2003) – PDF 1.5 / Acrobat 6.0 (1999) – PDF 1.3 / Acrobat 4.0 (2001) – PDF 1.4 / Acrobat 5.0 (2006) – PDF 1.7 / Acrobat 8.0 today (2008) – PDF 1.7 , Adobe Extension Level 3 / Acrobat 9.0 9 versions then came…

8. did you know ? that in a ddition to pdf v ersions there are pdf formats ?

9. pdf/ x-1 pdf/ x-3 pdf/ x-2 pdf/ x-5 pdf/ x-4 pdf/ a pdf/ e pdf/ ua

10. then throw in compression formats…

11. Z ip r un l ength J PEG J PEG 2000 CCITT G4 CCITT G3 j big2 LZW

12. these and other factors add up to hundreds of possible pdf combinations

13. t hen layer some fonts on top of that…

15. c ompact font format mulitple master open type type 1 type 2 type 42 type 14 cid c ustom

16. wait , t here’s more

17. Bleed Box Trim Box Media Box Crop Box Art Box Page boxes

18. these MUST be “ flattened” before they can be printed pdf transparencies

19. some p df m akers can make pdfs with tens of thousands of transparencies per drawing !

20. here are links to some of the pdf makers

21. Win2pdf.com Filebuzz.com Win2pdf.com Adobe.com Dwgpdfconverter.com Verypdf.com a-pdf.com dwgtool.com fileguru.com Novapdf.com Dwg-to-pdf.software.informer.com Scibus.net PDFedit.net Foxitsoftware.com PDF-Creator.us Page-Stream.com pdfforge.org Docudesk.com PDF995.com PrimoPDF.com freePDFconvert.com Autodwg.com Print-driver.com Cadzation.com Bluebeam.com Docudesk.com Go2pdf.com Anydwg.com Pdfpdf.com opentext.com AutoDesk.com GhostScript.com OpenOffice.org

22. point is one or more of these variables can cause a pdf to be ch allenging to print

23. a pdf is just a pdf , right ?

24. and no w you k no w the answer is no.

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30. version compression transparencies fonts page boxes opi forms comments annotations audio video layers 3d PostScript® elements color profiles

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36. PDFs

37. the big three problem ingredients

38. pdf transparencies these MUST be “ flattened” before they can be printed

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46. Fonts Embedded Printer A PDF Document font embedded A Application A Printer A

47. Bleed Box Trim Box Media Box Crop Box Art Box Page boxes

49. PDFs are great!

50. What to do?

51. For making PDFs to print c onsider using a standard like ISO PDF/X-3:2002

52. PDF /X-3:2002 - doesn’t allow trans parencies - fonts must be embedded - pdf version is set to 1.3 - properly configures color - resolves any pagebox issues

54. . point is standardization will help

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64. for Archiving PDFs the ISO standard is the PDF/ A format

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