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In Illustrator you have the option of saving your artwork and your text and everything out as a PDF, also called a Portable Document Format. What this allows you to do is to provide your clients the ability to see your artwork as you created it without them having Illustrator. It also serves another purpose. It also helps to save the environment. The PDF format is intended to be viewed on your computer monitor and there are tons of magazines now that are actually offering an online version of their print magazines, and I currently subscribe to quite a few of them. Once again, it's a great way to save trees because you're looking at your magazine on your screen. Now, every once in a while I do cheat and print out a couple of pages because I still prefer to have the paper in my hand as opposed to reading something on the screen. OK, now what I did to open up this dialog box in Illustrator was simply to go to the File Menu and then I chose Save As and then from the Presets List I simply chose PDF. As you see here we have quite a few options available to us. First of all I don't want to say that I don't really change many of these options because the PDF functionality works great, but if you do intend to have your Illustrator files work in conjunction with InDesign you might want to keep this Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities on. You could also, if you want to, choose to view your PDF After Saving, and you can even choose Compression. So if you want to down-sample images that are rather large you can choose a Compression Scheme from this list so that files that are larger than a certain file format, or rather size, it can be down-sampled and compressed, so you can do that with Color, Grayscale, and Monochrome. You can also compress the Text and the Line Art, as you see here. If you need to go to an output house or a printer you can also choose to enable Trim Marks, Registration Marks, and other types of marks that they use. You can also enable Bleeds if your document is going to have color, and text and designs go past the actual page itself so that there is no white edge around it. As far as security you can also require a password so that your document is eyes only, so that if you need a high-level manager to see something, or an art director and not someone else, provide the art director the password they need to open the PDF. If you really want to do some homeland security on somebody go ahead and also even deny them the ability to copy text, images, or even print the document, so you can really protect your PDF to the degree that only the person you want to see it does see it and can open it and manipulate it. I'm going to Cancel all this and I'm going to also just show you an example of the PDF file itself. This is in Preview, which is in Apple, or Macintosh computers, and this is the finished PDF file. As you can see here the text can be highlighted and I'm simply able to see the PDF as though it were a magazine or an image. So, that is the advantage to using PDFs as an output from Illustrator.