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Here's a question for anyone in graphics or publishing. I've got a newsetter that I need to get to the printers tonight. I've got PDF's ready to email the printer, but I've noticed a BIG mistake in one that needs changing. Problem is I can't get into the office, and I've only got Quark 5 at home. Quark 5 can fix the problem, but can't save the new edited page as a PDF.
My question is, if I save the edited Quark doc as an EPS document, can I simply convert it to PDF using GraphicConverter (or some other program) or some other program. I've done this and on-screen it seems that the converted version has a little less quality. Keep in mind our printer only takes PDF.
Can anybody help, my job could depend on this!
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Originally posted by Smileyguy:
can I simply convert it to PDF using GraphicConverter (or some other program) or some other program.
Probably not in a fashion that's guaranteed to give you PDFs which are suitable for press. Perhaps the printer can make the PDF from the Quark EPS for you. If so, that's a far better option than using Graphic Converter. Otherwise you're probably out of luck.
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You can just double-click on the EPS file and let OS X render it to PDF for you.
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Chabig, how do I go about that?
How about using InDesgin? Would that do it?
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Do you have Illustrator? You can open, edit and save as a PDF natively there.
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Originally posted by Smileyguy:
Chabig, how do I go about that?
How about using InDesgin? Would that do it?
Smileyguy,
In Panther, you can just double-click on an EPS file and it will render and open in Preview. From Preview, it's trivial to save it as a PDF. If double-clicking it doesn't open it in Preview, you can launch Preview and choose File > Open.
If you're still using Jaguar, then you can't do this.
InDesign can export to PDF. But you said you only had Quark.
Chris
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From a printer's perspective- the PDF from OSXwon't work. It generates a medium Res RGB PDF. The Illustrator trick is your best bet- or even better- generate a Postscript file from Quark with all fonts embedded and see if they will at the very least distill it for you. Also-
Better yet- try adobe's free trial for creating a PDF online.
https://createpdf.adobe.com/index.pl...=NS6&v=AHP
Just make sure you send your file on an oversized sheet with bleeds on (if you have bleeds) to print optimized settings or whatever your printer has specified...
Keri
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Originally posted by KeriVit:
From a printer's perspective- the PDF from OSXwon't work. It generates a medium Res RGB PDF.
Not true.
Preview in Panther uses lossless PDF settings (ie. no downsampling or JPEG compression), and if you put 300dpi CMYK in, you get 300dpi CMYK out.
You can then take the generated PDF into ColorSync Utility if you need to downsample/compress the images, but the file shuld pose no problem to printers.
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I think it may be faster just to go back to your studio and do the change...
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