[XeTeX] Default settings when making PDF?
William Adams
will.adams at frycomm.com
Thu Jan 7 20:59:46 CET 2010
On Jan 7, 2010, at 4:11 AM, David J. Perry wrote:
> I will be creating a PDF to send to a printer and I want to be sure
> that I get the highest quality possible. When using tools other
> than XeTeX, I would print to a postscript file and then process the
> file with Acrobat Distiller, which allows one to set various options
> to control file quality (and size).
If the printer is obnoxious, you could still do this by opening
the .pdf in Adobe Acrobat, saving out as .ps, then distilling w/ their
settings.
> For this project, I'm using XeTeX (with MiKTeX 2.7). What defaults
> does XeTeX use when the xdvipdf driver makes the PDF? Is there any
> way to control file quality? If the driver automatically makes the
> best PDF, that would be great.
It does. The biggest concerns are:
- quality / nature of placed graphics --- these should be good-
quality .pdf files for best control, .jpeg works as well --- .png
should work, but I've never used it save for digital print projects
which didn't require CMYK
- colour model --- CMYK is readily supported, but if you need spot
colours this will entail jumping through hoops as described in the
past on this list.
- .pdf bounding boxes --- (and possibly crop marks if required by
your printer) --- these have to be worked in manually using .pdf
specials as described on this list in the past
William
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William Adams
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Fry Communications
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