Preparing PDF files for a service bureau

Open Prepress Interface (OPI) lets you use low-resolution images as placeholders for the high-resolution images that appear in your final work. When a service bureau receives your file, the OPI server substitutes the low-resolution images for the high-resolution images.

Document settings can be preserved to maintain how a PDF file looks. You can preserve document overprints, halftone screen information, and spot colors.

Printer's marks provide information to the service bureau about how the work should be printed. You can specify which printer's marks to include on the page. The available printer's marks are as follows:

•Crop marks—represent the size of the paper and appear at the corners of the page. You can add crop marks to use as guides to trim the paper. If you output multiple pages per sheet (for example, two rows by two columns), you can add the crop marks on the outside edge of the page so that all crop marks are removed after the cropping process, or you can choose to add crop marks around each row and column. A bleed determines how far an image can extend beyond the crop marks. A bleed requires that the paper you are printing on is larger than the size of paper you ultimately want, and the image area must extend beyond the edge of the final paper size.

•Registration marks — are required to line up the film, analog proofs, or print plates on a color press. Registration marks print on each sheet of a color separation.

•Densitometer scale — is a series of gray boxes ranging from light to dark. These boxes are required to test the density of halftone images. You can position the densitometer scale anywhere on the page. You can also customize the levels of gray that appear in each of the seven squares on the densitometer scale.

•File information — can be printed, including the color profile; name, date, and time the image was created; and page number.

To preserve document settings in a PDF file

1Choose File ` Publish to PDF.

2Click Settings.

3Click the Advanced tab.

4Enable any of the following check boxes:

• Preserve document overprints — retains the overprint settings of objects in a document

CorelDRAW: Publishing to PDF

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