Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide
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Enhanced collaboration features, including access to free screen sharing and file
hosting via Acrobat.com and ConnectNow service.
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Support for preparing files for use in workflows using the Adobe PDF Print Engine
2, which adds support for digital printers and variable data printing (VDP).
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Enhanced Form Wizard that automatically adds form fields based on intelligent
analysis of a PDF. You can also enable PDFs to be filled out and saved by users of
Adobe Reader 8 and above. Use Acrobat.com services to distribute and manage
forms, and to collect and organize forms data.
Examining PDFs
Acrobat 9 Pro includes new forensic tools for finding potential problems in PDF files as well as
enhanced tools for fixing common problems.
Standards Compliance
If you open a PDF/X file (or a PDF in compliance with any of the standards, such as PDF/A or
PDF/E), a new option automatically appears in the Navigation pane. Click the standards icon in
the Navigation pane to display the specifics of the file’s compliance
Standards Navigation Pane
When you open a PDF that complies with a standard, the
Standards category becomes available in the Navigation pane .
Click the icon to view information about the PDF’s standards
compliance .
Determining a File’s Origin: Viewing PDF Document Properties
To view helpful information about a document, such as the source file’s original application and
fonts used in the document, choose File > Properties. Click the Description tab at the top of the
dialog box to view the source of the PDF as well as its version. Not all methods of PDF creation
leave information in the PDF about its origin, but you should be able to identify the origin of
PDFs created by Adobe applications, Acrobat Distiller, QuarkXPress®, or the PDFMaker macro
in Microsoft Office applications. The most important piece of information on this pane may be
PDF Version, considering that some older workflows and devices do not support more recent
versions of PDF. Check to make sure that the PDF is supported by your RIP, as well as any other
process that will handle the file (such as imposition software). Remember that you can use the
PDF Optimizer feature in Acrobat to save the file to a lower version, if necessary, without impair-
ing font embedding.
Document Properties
You can quickly determine the
origin of a PDF, as well as security
settings and font embedding
characteristics in the Document
Properties dialog box, by choosing
the Description option . This PDF
was exported from InDesign CS3
(v . 5 .0 .1) . It uses PDF version 1 .6,
which means it is compatible with
Acrobat 7 .0 . Thus, it may contain
live transparency .
