I am trying to upload a picture book file to KDP Amazon. It is a an Ilustrator file saved as a PDF
I need to flatten transparencies and have been advised to Export to a pdf which will flatten transparencies. On Illustrator there is File - Export - Export to screens OR Export as OR Export for Web. Only the Export for screens has a pdf option as below but it makes 25 separate pdf files. Can someone please help me?
He is my dropbox link. Link removed on request. Thankyou for looking!
This is one of the KDP messages
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First of all, my compliments for your artwork, but I believe that your work is too complex to flatten. Especially the furry brushes are making it computational heavy.
I tried to flatten the cover, but the result was not very good.
Unflattened is not a good preview experience either, flashing build-up of page elements.
Rasterizing the artwork seems the best solution (some of the pages (like the disco and the last page) just hang Acrobat or Illustrator when trying to flatten them).
Keep the text as much as possible on a layer above the artwork that needs to be rasterized.
I could not try that out because I do not have the fonts.
When you rasterize the artwork, I would just save the result with a High Quality Print preset without Illustrator editing capabilities. Keep the files as RGB.
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