I work for a small printers – mainly general stuff: small stationery, mail outs, leaflets etc. Outputting to a CTP system.

Whilst I have years of experience of working on Macs, I am relatively new to this aspect (ie: taking someone else's files and preparing for print); in my previous role I was at the other end of the "food chain" - ie: the guy supplying to the printers.

Quite often we get Acrobat files direct for ouutputting. I am a little confused by different file formats PDF/X etc. etc.

Can anyone refer me to any guides for printers dealing with Acrobats; or recommend any decent books that could answer questions that crop up from time to time. I am especially interested in issues that arise with Acrobat files supplied to printers.

Hello,

I would recommend that you read these first two articles that I wrote. This first an ideal preflight checklist for graphic designers, publishers, and prepress operators. The article is a comprehensive breakdown on how to improve your file submissions to the printing company. It's a must read for graphic design school students and those already employed as graphic designers. Written by a long time prepress and graphic arts trainer and manager, me.


Preflight Software and Preflight Checklist for Graphic Design and
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This is an ideal preflight checklist for graphic designers, publishers, and prepress operators. Free Articles, Free Web Content, Reprint Articles..
http://www.articlesfactory.com/articles/publishing/preflight-software-and-preflight-checklist-for-graphic-design-and-prepress.html


Preflight for Graphic Design and Prepress, an Application or
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Preflight for Graphic Design and Prepress, an Application or Process? - an excellent free article by Samuel Hargis, read by thousands of prof..
http://www.articlecity.com/articles/web_design_and_development/article_1214.shtml


PDF/X-1a Workflow Tutorial Acrobat Distiller 6
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PDF/X-1a Tutorial for creating PDF-X-1a files with Adobe Acrobat Distiller 6. Comprehensive how to for PrePress professionals and novices alike..
http://www.pdf-x.net/How_To_PDF-X-1A.html


PDF-X-Robot, pdf workflow for magazines, catalogs, publisher
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So, PDF/X-1a does provide for the quick communication of the desired type of PDF file we need But, how do you make sure the file is really PDF/X-1a?
http://software-robotics.com/pdf_robot/pdfx-1a.html


Prepress Forum, How to repair PDF files, fonts not embedded in PDF
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(A.) Click in the text whose font embedding or subsetting you want to edit. A paragraph of text is enclosed in a bounding box. You can select text within..
software-robotics.com/graphic-design-prepress/viewtopic.php?t=113


Prepress Forum, Preflighting for PDF/X - Compliance with Adobe Acrobat
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A customer is sending in files that are supposed to already be PDF/X-1a compliant. If they are PDF/X-1a, what are the things I need to watch out for?
http://software-robotics.com/graphic-design-prepress/viewtopic.php?t=165


Prepress Forum, Preflighting for PDF/X - Compliance with Adobe Acrobat
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A customer is sending in files that are supposed to already be PDF/X-1a compliant. How can I verify and preflight that the files are truly PDF/X-1a..
http://software-robotics.com/graphic-design-prepress/viewtopic.php?p=430


Prepress Forum, PDF-Robot for OS X, aka: PDF/X-Robot, Mac OS X Panther
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I'm into: WorkFlow Automation, On Demand Printing, Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDF/X-1a, Quark Xpress, Adobe Photoshop, G5, Mac OS X Panther, Tiger..
http://software-robotics.com/graphic-design-prepress/viewtopic.php?t=9


PDF-X-Robot Quark Xpress Xtension, Adobe InDesign CS2 Plug-In, PDF
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In Acrobat 6 Pro, you can use the PDF/X dialog box options, there you can create and verify PDF/X-1a and PDF/X-3 files. You can also create conversion..
http://software-robotics.com/products.php


Prepress Forum, Font Types and Why So Many, Open Type Font True
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Standards are only for things they can make money out of, like PDF/X-1a, Adobe positions PDF/X-1a as a way to force new upgrades on everybody.
http://software-robotics.com/graphic-design-prepress/viewtopic.php?t=193


Prepress Forum, Rampage RIP, PDF workflow for CTP computer to plate
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But Rampage, and DS Screens TruFlow RIPs would both trap the slice lines in flattened PDF/X-1a. Now both would say that if the PDF was created a certain way..
http://software-robotics.com/graphic-design-prepress/viewtopic.php?t=535
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