Adobe Illustrator CS3 User Manual
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ILLUSTRATOR CS3
User Guide
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See also
“Adobe PDF presets” on page 278
“Setting Adobe PDF options” on page 280
“Color management and PDF/X options for PDF” on page 284
“Color-managing PDFs for printing” on page 140
Create an Adobe PDF file
1
Choose File > Save As or File > Save A Copy.
2
Type a filename, and choose a location for the file.
Note: To display Version Cue options in the Save As and Save A Copy dialog boxes, click the Use Adobe Dialog button.
3
Choose Adobe PDF (*.PDF) as the file format, and click Save.
4
Either choose a preset from the Adobe PDF Preset menu, or select a category from the list on the left of the dialog
box and then customize the options.
5
Click Save PDF.
To reset options to the default, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) and click Reset.
Create a multiple-page Adobe PDF file
1
Choose File > Print, and set the media size to the size you want the PDF pages to be.
2
Select Setup on the left side of the Print dialog box. Set the following options, and click Done:
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For Crop Artwork To, select Artboard.
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For Tiling, select Tile Full Pages or Tile Imageable Areas.
3
Set up the artboard so that it is big enough to display all pages, and choose View
> Show Page Tiling. (See “About
4
Lay out the artwork for each page within the page tiling boundaries on the artboard.
5
Save the file in Adobe PDF format.
6
In the Save Adobe PDF dialog box, select Create Multi-Page PDF From Page Tiles.
7
Set additional PDF options, and click Save PDF.
Create a layered Adobe PDF file
Adobe InDesign and Adobe Acrobat both provide features for changing the visibility of layers in an Adobe PDF file.
By saving a layered PDF file in Illustrator, you allow your illustration to be used in different contexts. For example,
rather than creating multiple versions of the same illustration for a multilanguage publication, you can create one
PDF file that contains text for all languages.
1
Set up your illustration so that the adjustable elements (those you want to show and hide) are in separate top-level
layers, not nested within sublayers.
For example, if you’re creating an illustration to be repurposed for multiple languages, put the text for each language
in a different top-level layer.
2
Save the file in Adobe PDF format.
3
In the Save Adobe PDF dialog box, choose Acrobat 8 (1.7) or Acrobat 7 (1.6) for Compatibility.