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Distiller Settings for 4C Newspaper Ads
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Distiller 6.0 & 7.0
General Tab
- Compatibility = Acrobat 4.0
- Object compression = Off
- Rotate Pages = Individually
- Binding = Left
- Resolution = 2400 dpi
Select "All Pages"
- Embedded Thumbnails = UNCHECKED
- Optimize For Fast Web View = UNCHECKED
Default Page Size = 13 x 21 Inches
Images Tab
- Color & Grayscale Images
- Bicubic Down sampling to 203 ppi
- For Images above 304 ppi
- Compression = Auto JPEG
- Quality = Maximum
- Monochrome Images
- Bicubic Down sampling to 1016
- For Images above 1016
- Compression = CCITT Group 4
- Anti-Alias = Off
POLICY = Cancel jobs when below 100 for Color & Grayscale, 600 for Monochrome
Fonts Tab
- Embed all fonts = CHECKED
- Subset = CHECKED AT 100%
- When embedding fails = Cancel Job
Color Tab
- Settings File = NONE
- Color Management Policies = Leave Unchanged
- Document Rendering Intent = Preserve
- Preserve Under Color Removal & Black Generation = CHECKED
- Transfer Functions = Remove
- Preserve Halftone = UNCHECKED
Advanced Tab
Select the following only ...
- Convert gradients to Smooth Shades
- Preserve Level 2 copy page
- Preserve Overprint Settings
- Overprint is nonzero
- Save Adobe PDF Settings Inside PDF
- Process DCS comments
- Preserve EPS Info
- Preserve document Info from DCS
- Resize page and center EPS
Standards Tab
- Compliance Standard = NONE
- Set Trim Box to Media Box with a .01 offset all around
Distiller 5.0
General Tab
- Compatibility: Acrobat 4.0
- Optimize PDF: Unchecked
- Generate Thumbnails: Unchecked
- Resolution: 1200 dpi
- Binding: Left
Default Size:
- Width: 13
- Height: 21
- Units: Inches
Compression Tab
Color Images
- Resampling: Checked and set to Bicubic Down sampling
- DPI: 203 for images above 304
- Compression: Automatic
- Quality: High
Grayscale Images
- Resampling: Checked and set to Bicubic Down sampling
- DPI: 203 for images above 304
- Compression: Automatic
- Quality: High
Monochrome Images
- Resampling: Checked and set to Bicubic Down sampling
- DPI: 1016 for images above 1200
- Compression: Checked and set to CCITT Group 4
- Anti Alias to Gray: Unchecked
- Compress Text and Line Art: Checked
Fonts Tab
- Embed All Fonts: Checked
- Subset All Embedded Fonts Below: Checked and set to 100%
- When Embedding Fails: CANCEL JOB
- Be sure that no font names appear in the "NEVER EMBED" window
Color Tab
- Color Management: Off
- Policies and Color Spaces: Not Applicable
- Options
- Overprint Settings: Checked
- Undercolor Removal and Black Generation: Checked
- Select REMOVE Transfer Function
- Preserve Halftone Information: Unchecked
Advanced Tab
Options
- Use Prologue and Epilogue.ps: Unchecked
- Allow Postscript File to Override Job Options: Unchecked
- Preserve Level 2 copy page Semantics: Checked
- Save Portable Job Tickets Inside PDF Files: Unchecked
- Illustrator Overprint Mode: Checked
- Convert Gradients to Smooth Shades: Checked
- ASCII Format: Unchecked
Document Structuring Conversions (DSC)
- Process DSC Comments: Checked
- Log DSC Warnings: Unchecked
- Resize Page and Center Artwork for EPS: Checked
- Preserve OPI Comments: Unchecked
- Preserve Document Info from DSC: Unchecked
