Adobe Photoshop 7 Tutorials
Saving/Printing / PDF format
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An increasingly popular imaging format that is being used across many different imaging workflows is the PDF format. And PDF format stands for portable document format, and it can easily be read by the Adobe Acrobat Reader. And the Adobe Acrobat Reader is available free from Adobe, and has a version for most every kind of operation system. And what so great about creating a PDF format, is that you don't have to have Photoshop to read or see this image. All you need is the acrobat reader, and almost everybody has the acrobat reader now. So if you want to create a file that is viewable by a very large collection of people, I recommend saving it as a PDF format. Also PDF is supported by many other imaging application and design applications such as Adobe Illustrator, and InDesign and many other media applications. It's a very popular format. So with that in mind I am going to save my multi-layer document out as a PDF. So I'll just choose that format and make sure that the PDF suffix is added to my file name. And when you click ok, it brings up some options for our PDF format. We have two types of encoding options. One is the zip, and one is JPEG. Now these will essentially create a type of compression, or try to save some space by optimizing our files in different ways. Zip is a lossless compression scheme, and you will not see any kind of artefacts, but it will make files a little bit larger. So if you are interested in file size, you might choose the JPEG quality image compression scheme. And if you really want to make your file small, dial this slider down. However, know that it will degrade your image a bit if your image quality settings are too low. I'm going to stick with the zip format. And I'm also going to choose to save transparency, and that will maintain transparency in my image. Other cool feature if you want to use it, is you can enable security with this file. If you choose PDF security, you can press on this button, and you can actually add a password to your image in order to open it. But be wary of this. because people will be calling you up to get the password if you forget to add it in your email information. So I generally don't use that feature, unless I am very worried about security of the image. Also another great feature of PDF files is that they can support vector data. So you can choose a couple of options here - whether or not to include vector data. And if you do include it, then any vector information such as my snail logo and the 's' here (these are both vector shapes, one is actually a shape layer and the other is a piece of text), these will be maintained at their highest resolution and will use your output device's resolution to make it as sharp as possible. And you can choose to embed fonts, and it will embed all the fonts that are used in your document. Or if you wish, you can convert your fonts to outlines. So, I am just going to say ok to that. And I will go ahead and close that document, and I am going to open up back up in Photoshop because of course Photoshop can read PDF formats as well. And notice that even though it was not saved as Photoshop format file, I do have access to all of my layers, since it was saved out as a Photoshop PDF. Well, guess what. I actually have Acrobat Reader open in the background and I am going to see if I can open this in my Acrobat Reader. So I am going to file>open, and here its finding my one PDF file in my folder that I saved it. So I am going ahead and see how that looks. And that looks just like the image that I saved, and it even added the annotation here.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop 7 |
| Author: | Andrew J. Hathaway |
| SKU: | 33329 |
| ISBN: | 1889347272 |
| Release Date: | 2002-09-05 |
| Duration: | 11 hrs / 152 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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