Preflight Sep Test

Question

I have large documents sizes and I need to test the separation and provide a "Sep Test" to my printer as a PDF.

I formerly completed this task with a device independent ADOBE PDF Print Driver.

I do realize that the File Save options to create the PDF is suitable in providing a high quality non down sampled file, but how can I produce a PDF file that indicates individual separation for large format documents?

Thanks.

Shawna

Stephen Marsh · Answer

The print industry mostly moved from pre-separated to composite workflows years ago. There are of course some workflows that still rely on separations, and the old methods *should still work in these cases… Print to separated PostScript and Distill into PDF.

*Of course, printing and exporting to separations appears to have been removed from recent versions of Acrobat Pro, at least on later versions of the Mac OS!

I would use InDesign, place the PDF and print to separated .ps file using an appropriate PPD file.

I may have an alternative using third party software, however I’ll have to get back to you.

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