Adobe Acrobat 5, 6 and 7 configuration

To ensure you are viewing your PDF in an accurate manner, please follow the steps below:

Turn the 'overprint preview' on
View example - PDF (622.83 K)
Acrobat 5: VIEW - Overprint Preview
Acrobat 6: Advanced - Overprint Preview
Acrobat 7: Advanced - Overprint Preview

Turn off 'Use Local Fonts'
Acrobat 5: VIEW menu and ensure the 'Local Fonts' option is not ticked
Acrobat 6: ADVANCED menu and ensure the 'Local Fonts' option is not ticked
Acrobat 7: ADVANCED menu and ensure the 'Local Fonts' option is not ticked

Turn on the page geometry display (Acrobat 6 and 7 Professional)
Ensure you can view all page geometry within your PDF file.
Adobe Acrobat 6 and 7 Professional
Preferences/Page Display/display trim/art/bleed

Acrobat 5

Remove 'AOM' from your workstation
This decreases application launch times and slows you down. Perform a search on your hard disk and then remove

Give more memory to Acrobat
Increase the memory allocation to 64,000kb - this will allow Acrobat more room to breathe. OS X and Windows users don't need to do this as the OS handles memory allocation to Acrobat dynamically.

Ensure you are running the latest Acrobat patches

Adobe Acrobat 5: latest version is 5.05 (works under OS9 and OSX and Windows 2000 and above)

Adobe Acrobat 6: (Standard or Professional) - latest version is 6.0.4

Adobe Acrobat 7: (Standard or Professional) - latest version is 7.0.8

Free updates are available from the Adobe site at adobe.com