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If you'd like to send in PDF files (that's great!), there are a couple of very important factors that will affect how smoothly your job goes, and therefore how it looks and how fast you get it. First, all fonts should be embedded. If you are using Acrobat Distiller, then use the Distiller joboptions files listed below, and that should take care of it. If you are exporting PDF files directly from your working application then select "embed all fonts" in the configuration dialog. Secondly, if your PDF file is for black text, set up your Print options to print out as black and white, not color.

In making the PDF file, be careful to maintain the quality of any images in your book. Don't downsample lower than 300 dpi or compress to a level worse than high quality. Unless you have file size limitations, I would avoid compression altogether just to be sure.

IPostscript Drivers. If you want to generate a postscript file from your application program, you may obtain the necessary drivers and PPD files from the links given below; these links are to places in the Adobe web site. You need two files for this purpose, a postscript driver and a PPD (postscript printer description) file. The driver is the program which puts your document into postscript form; the PPD gives the driver information about the target printer. When you install the driver, you will name the resulting "printer". Then you can generate postscript files by simply selecting that "printer" in your print window, and printing to it.

Windows Postscript Driver	Windows PPD
Mac Postscript Driver	Mac PPD

When you uncompress the PPD file from Adobe, use the adist5.ppd. After you install the postscript driver, configure it to embed truetype fonts as outlines and embed postscript fonts in native format.

Exporting PDFs from InDesign. For information and configuration files,

PDFs in OSX. The OSX operating system for Mac freely uses and generates PDF files. Be careful when you use an early version of OSX to make a PDF file for printing purposes if it has images in it. The earlier versions of OSX make screen-optimized PDFs which lower the resolution of images too much for good printing.

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