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Adobe Illustrator is able to generate PDF files which allow you to send files to people who may not have the same fonts that you have and the beauty of a PDF is that everything is embedded, so you have the same design that you have in Illustrator; you have everything that you created that looks pristine on the other end of whoever receives that PDF. Now, just as a little precaution, what I normally do anyway, is I always save my type, if I'm doing a logo like this, as outlines by going to Type, Create Outlines. In that way I can just ensure that if the printer, or my client, doesn't have this font they won't have a problem with it because, don't forget, when you take type and you create outlines, you snatch it away from being a font and you turn it into lines. This, this becomes graphics now, so I just need to reedit the points and I have a style applied to this which is why we still see this down here. I just have the effect and I have warp arc on here. So let's go ahead and look at the dialog box and choose Save As. I'm going to save it on my Desktop as Version C, and what I'm going to do as well is show you the dialog box. Nine times out of ten I don't touch anything because I find the default settings to work great. But I will talk about some of the things that I would probably turn off or on, for example, if I don't want to have any editing capabilities in In Design, or I don't want to return back to Illustrator to edit anything, which I normally don't want to do, I turn this off, or I keep it on. Usually when I'm finished with the file I always Save As anyway, the different versions, so that's why this doesn't really matter to me because I always have another copy of my file that I can edit if I need to do so. I can also optimize this for fast Web viewing if it's going to be viewed on something like Safari which allows you to see inline PDFs. What I could also do is go to compression so I can determine whether or not to down sample any of the larger images for, you know, easier e-mailing, so the file's a lot smaller, and I can choose a compression scheme here, so just JPG, Zip, and that kind of thing. And I can do the same thing for grayscale images, and once again choose a compression scheme. If you want to put any marks or bleeds, such as trim marks, registration marks, you can do that right here. I normally don't need to do that as well because I am strictly a designer and I usually have the pre-press house, or someone else, handle all that stuff if they need it, and if they want me to do it I add it anyway. It's very easy to select registration marks and it's put on your file. You have some other output settings here such as Color Managements, so you have Conversions, and all kinds of other things. And one more thing I want to talk about is Security. If you want to e-mail this to someone you can require that they open it with a password so you can you know put a password on there and they'll have to type that password or they simply will not be able to open that PDF. You can also have permissions attached to it so you can say that they can't even print it, or they can't copy it, or they can't this or that. Once you're done, you save your PDF and it's going to look like this. Let me go to my preview and this is the PDF file and this is what you can send to someone. It looks just like your file in Illustrator and once again, just to be safe, I always break my type into outlines so they could then take this file, put it in a presentation, put it in a magazine, or whatever they need to do because it looks just like the artwork that I created within Illustrator itself.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe Illustrator CS3
Author: Dwayne Ferguson
SKU: 33792
ISBN: 1-934743-06-2
Release Date: 2007-09-19
Duration: 7.5 hrs / 126 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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