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Please download any PDF resources which are suitable to your workflow. Ensure you supply a test file prior to submitting PDFs for print purposes. Users of Acrobat 6 Professional can pre-flight their own PDFs with our Acrobat 6, 7 and 8 Preflight Profile. We also have an Enfocus Pitstop Profiles (version 5/6 or version 7) for download. Remember, if you have any questions or queries relating to your PDFs, your workflow or indeed anything digital, then please contact us.

Download Information: All compressed files can be expanded via WinZip for Windows or Stuffit Expander for Windows, Mac OS 9 and OS X.

Creating a PDF via SAVE-AS-PDF or EXPORT-TO-PDF methods

Adobe InDesign CS3
Adobe InDesign CS2
Adobe InDesign CS
Adobe InDesign 2 - PDF
(1.42 Mb)
QuarkXPress 6 & 7

Creating a PDF via postscript and Distill

  1. Create your postscript file:
    Adobe InDesign CS & CS2 – ZIP (2.75 K)
    Adobe InDesign 2 – PDF (1.42 Mb)
    Quark Xpress 7
    Quark Xpress 6
    Quark Xpress 4 and 5 – PDF
    (77.91 K)
    (import the print style via the FILE/PRINT PRESETS/DEFINE/LOAD command)
  2. Distill using Acrobat Distiller
    Distiller 8 – ZIP (3.95 K) drop directly into the Distiller window
    Distiller 8 for Quark 7 – ZIP (3.95 K) drop directly into the Distiller window
    Distiller 7 – ZIP (4.03 K) drop directly into the Distiller window
    Distiller 6 – ZIP (4.58 K)drop directly into the Distiller window
    Distiller 5 – ZIP (1.33 K) drop into Acrobat/Distiller/Settings and re-start Distiller. Choose 'Pensord' from the drop-down menu

PDF troubleshooting documents

Having problems with fonts with Mac OS 9? PDF (688.31 K)

What about the dreaded LAB colour? PDF (214.69 K)

How to save your PDF as an EPS for re-importing into Quark Xpress 4, 5 and 6.

What are the differences between Acrobat 6 Standard and Professional? PDF (120.23 K)

Configure Adobe Acrobat 5, 6 and 7 – very important!

See our Acrobat configuration section to ensure you are accurately viewing your PDFs within Adobe Acrobat

Enfocus InstantPDF 3 – One-step PDF creation

Reduce PDF creation problems by downloading our new InstantPDF queue (18.73 K)

Problems with Adobe Acrobat 6 or 7?

Please visit our Acrobat troubleshooting page which outlines Acrobat 6 and 7 functionality and how to overcome specific platform problems

PDF Tools

Download the following tools to enhance your PDF workflow:

Quark Xpress 4 and 5 – Colourised TIFF Fixer: enables you to successfully colour a greyscale TIFF in Quark (not required for InDesign or Quark 6). Mac - SIT (42.93 K) or Windows - ZIP (38.60 K). Installation: Download, expand and move to Quark Xpress/Xtensions folder. Restart Quark and go to the Utilities menu, check if AGFACTiff is listed.

Acrobat Distiller Refiner Tool: enables spot colour vignettes to work, correct page geometry and many other bug fixes. Installation: Download Cross platform (ZIP) (129.67 K) and place into: Mac: /users/shared/Adobe PDF 6.0/Startup/ or Windows: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Adobe PDF 6.0\Startup. Remove any existing .ps files in this folder. Not required if you are using InDesign/Quark 6.

Microsoft Publisher 2003 configuration

Please visit our our Microsoft Publisher support pages for help on creating PDFs from Microsoft Publisher

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