Job Settings in Acrobat Distiller

Adobe Acrobat Distiller is the best way of creating a PDF file that will provide you with great printability and cross-platform functionality. But an error in your "Job Settings" can easily make a good job go bad. ePub recommends that all PDFs be created using the GPO made Job Options found HERE, or from the Adobe supplied Press Optimized setting in Distiller. To choose a a setting, open your Distiller program and select one from the "Job Options" menu.

If you use the Press Optimized option you must set your Job Settings. Click "Settings" in the menu bar of Distiller. Then click "Job Settings." Distiller will open a window that has five tabs: General, Compression, Fonts, Color, and Advanced. Under General, confirm that your compatability is Acrobat 4.0 and that ASCII is unchecked. Then confirm that the dpi setting is 2400. Next, click Compression and confirm all boxes are checked and the dpi settings (down the list) read: 300, 300, and 1200. These settings will keep high-resolution images intact without allowing excess file sizes. Now, click Fonts and check "Embed all fonts" and "Subset all embedded fonts below." Then make sure that your "When embedding fails..." setting reads "Warn and Continue." You may then leave your Color and Advanced settings at their defaults. Finally, click "Save As" and rename your Job Option to "Press Optimized(1)" (without the quotes) and click OK. You are now ready to make your hi-res PDFs!

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