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Kate,
Your client is dead wrong. Export of PDF directly from InDesign
uses Adobe's internal PDF Library in conjunction with InDesign's
own code to directly generate PDF without first creating PostScript
which must be distilled. The PDF so-generated is perfectly fine
for offset printing, digital printing, web use, or any other purpose
that you might otherwise generated PDF for via the "distill
PostScript" method. In fact, direct PDF export from InDesign is
the ONLY method that you can use that preserves hyperlinks and
live transparency (if you specify PDF 1.4 or 1.5) as well as
InDesign layers (only for InDesign CS with PDF 1.5 specified).
When you export PDF from InDesign, you don't "define a high res
printer that it uses" but you define the parameters that is used
for PDF generation, such as image downsampling and compression
settings.
The only significant downside to PDF exported from InDesign is that
if you have a printer that has out-of-date, out-of-spec RIP
software that doesn't conform to the PostScript and PDF specifications,
you may have problems with the CID-encoded fonts used in the
exported PDF. Reputable printers have no such problems (and you
can quote me on that!).
- Dov
At 10/27/2003 06:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi
>I have a client that insists that when you export a PDF out of Indesign that Indesign
>uses PDF writer and therefore the pdf is no good for offset printing. I disagree. I
>say Indesign uses the setting you set up for it. If you define an high res printer
>thats what it uses. Whos right?
>
>thanks
>
>Kate Hellmann
>
>
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