Adobe Creative Suite CS3 / CS4 / CS5 will share Acrobat Settings. If you create them once, they'll be available to other programs in the Suite. You can save this preset with your own filename for future use.
For all files supplied to us, we recommend:
General:
Set Acrobat for PDF 1.7 (versions 8 or 9)
Optimize Fast Web View ON
Create Acrobat Layers OFF
Create Tagged PDF OFF
Compression:
Color Images
Bicubic Downsampling to 300 for Images above 450
Image quality Maximum
Compression JPEG
Greyscale Images:
Bicubic Downsampling to 300 for Images above 450
Image quality Maximum
Compression JPEG
Monochrome Images:
Bicubic Downsampling to 1200 for Images above 1800
Compression CCITT Group 4
Compress Text and Line Art
Crop Image Data to Frames
Marks and Bleeds:
Crop Marks ON
Bleed .25" for Top, Bottom, Left and Right
Output:
Be sure to check your ink settings in the INK MANAGER each time to specify Process and Spot (PMS colors)
Color conversion set to NO COLOR CONVERSION
Profile Inclusion Policy set to DON'T INCLUDE PROFILES (Profiles are for screen appearance and will be dropped in the rip)