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At 12:31 PM 3/1/2004, Rich Sprague wrote:
2) If I'm going to press, my first choice would be to use the print Adobe PDF printer. If I don't have that option, I would PostScript and Distill.
I would export first, unless I was dealing with a printer with outdated equipment that couldn't handle things such as CID fonts...
Then, yes, I would fall back to the Adobe PDF Printer.
3) For web or screen viewing, I would feel safe with the export capability in InDesign. PDF files made with the export feature in InDesign and Photoshop will be larger than their print to Adobe PDF counterparts.
True, which is why Acrobat 6's PDFOptimizer or Apago's PDF Enhancer are worthwhile options for repurposing documents...
4) From Word, I use the PDF Maker.
On Windows. On the Mac, it doesn't really matter.
And, PDFMaker is really a wrapper around Word->PS printer->PS->Distiller->PDF + "patches to the PDF". So you end up with the same quality result via Distiller/Adobe PDF printer but with the extras.
5) I would never, ever, export a PDF from either Quark or Corel Draw.
I've found that Quark 6 and Jaws produces much better quality that I expected, so it's a reasonable option.
CorelDraw on Windows is quite acceptable even for print quality documents - it correctly handles CMYK & Spots just fine. (I think it even does DeviceN, but haven't tried personally).
Neither is optimal PDF, but functionally it is just fine. But again, that's why there are tools like PDF Optimizer & PDF Enhancer - to optimize/enhance the document!
Yesterday I made a post wherein the exported Quark PDF for a single 4-color page was 35 MB, or over 10 times the size of a PDF made by PSing and Distilling.
Yeah, Quark puts a lot of silly things into PDFs that PDF Enhancer is savvy about and able to remove. Try running that document through Enhancer and see what you get ;).
Corel has all sorts of cute features built in its program (including the lens tool) which make huge PDFs that rips often choke to death on.
No more or less so than Illustrator...
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