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Inspecting the final PDF document - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Advanced
Inspecting the final PDF document
In the previous exercise we specified the settings required to save our magazine cover as a high-resolution CMYK PDF file. We're now ready to click the Save PDF button. And as soon as you do that, Photoshop is going to set about writing that PDF file, and then a few moments later it will open the file inside of the Adobe reader, or your favorite PDF opening application. Now it may not initially look exactly right. You may see some choppy edges here and there. You can write that off to the screen preview, and if you have any concerns you can print out your images well or just zoom in on it. So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to scroll down here to this text that we were worried about. That the printer was showing us; wasn't showing up properly at all. All right, it was turning to pixels, and now because I'm working inside the free Adobe reader. I'll go to the tools menu to Select & Zoom and choose this guy right there, Dynamic Zoom, and I'm going to drag upward in order to zoom…
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Photoshop's vector exceptions1m 11s
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Making text in Photoshop6m 18s
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Creating and editing a text layer6m 56s
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Font and type style7m 35s
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Type size and color7m 52s
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Combining layer effects and type10m 57s
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Drawing a custom shape layer8m 34s
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Side bearing, kerning, and tracking10m 36s
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Point text vs. area text8m 26s
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Selecting and formatting a paragraph5m 19s
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Copying and pasting unformatted text7m 45s
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Creating text inside a custom path6m 26s
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Creating text along a path8m 13s
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Adjusting baseline shift6m 16s
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Drawing a fading arrowhead7m 29s
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Fading a shadow with a layer5m 32s
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Logo creation and Fill Opacity7m 44s
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Stretching a background element6m 9s
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Drawing with shape outlines6m 18s
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Combining vector-based shapes6m 42s
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Masking vector-based shape layers6m 7s
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Correcting spacing problems7m 44s
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Drawing the ultimate specular sparkle8m 45s
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Preparing text for commercial output5m 9s
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Saving a high-resolution PDF file7m 11s
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Inspecting the final PDF document7m 8s
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Saving large poster art9m 32s
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