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Creating PDFs from Illustrator

Creating PDFs from Illustrator - Adobe Acrobat Tutorial

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Creating PDFs from Illustrator

- Creating a PDF from Adobe Illustrator is fairly straight forward. Because PDF is sort of illustrators native tongue. Consequently to create a PDF you don't choose File Print or File Export, you choose File Save As. So I'll go to File, Save As, II'll just put it back in the same folder. And then for save as type i'll choose Adobe PDF. It's not quite that simple though, when you click save you have to answer some questions. When you're creating a PDF for print the Illustrator default setting is actually probably not your best choice. It's sort of an odd-ball format. It combines both your original editable Illustrator file and a PDF of that file in the same wrapper. And because you're sort of doubling your content this could result in pretty large PDF files. So I'm gonna say I don't suggest that so well kind of take it off the list. Let's compare High-Quality Print and Press-Quality, and then well start talking about the X's briefly. Smallest file size, clearly meant for an email…

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