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Ross,
You can start here, especially with the first search result,
It is always safer to Save a Copy as PDF: Save As PDF can lead to the destruction of your document if done wrongly.
Hi @rossisaacs, that's great. Congratulations, how nice to end the year with this accomplishment! You will certainly want to have a PDF file for print versions. Typically, you'll need a separate front cover/spine/back cover file, which has a different trim size as these three elements are all in one file output. The printer or platform you use will have some specifications on how to prepare your files, making sure the trim size and bleeds are set properly. Most publishers allow very large-size f
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For my part you are welcome, Marilyn, and Happy New Year.
You can answer the "just the artboard" part by saving a PDF copy of any artwork that extends past the Artboard.
With regard to the (other) properties, always ask the printer, as Jain already said.
Particular care (and advice) will be needed with the bleed, because you have to create the pages with surplus artwork to be cut off at all sides (allowing for a certain inaccuracy).
You can create the artwork for each spread (like your p
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Marilyn,
As a different subject, my guess is that yous have considered (and maybe reconsidered) the use/avoidance of hyphens/separations within words.
Have you also considered/tried to adapt with small adjustments of the width of the paths (used for the Area Type), such as a wee widening or narrowing of the one on page 3? Sometimes it is amazing how little it takes to obtain much.
Where will you publish it?
Number one should always be to get in contact with the publisher and ask for their requirements. Not all PDFs are equal, the options matter a lot.
Are there just a lot of objects? Or also transparency, masks and the like?
Many objects will lead to high file sizes and it might be over the top with no chance of compression (for vector objects).
In case you have also used opacity masks, blends, transparency and the like, you might get ridiculously high file sizes when u
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It looks darling, Marilyn! You have a lot of helpful hints and suggestions. I recommend a small print run or print-on-demand copies to see how it turns out. Also, text spacing in print looks better when there is only one space between sentences, and it looks as though you have two?
Depending on the printer and binding, you may end up with extra blank pages inserted at the end (64 pages would be 4 full signatures). InDesign is the best program for book layouts. You may find it easier to use Ill
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>> I recommend a small print run or print-on-demand copies to see how it turns out.
Good advice.
If you are commercially printing the book, ask the printer for "contract proofs". Those are proofs that the printer is guaranteeing what the job will look like when printed (with slight variations). Usually, they can even be on the same paper as the final product for better accuracy. The proofs cost more, but for a job with critical color such as this, you may not want to chance non-contract proof
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I would seriously consider putting the job together in InDesign.
If you really want to stay in Illustrator, you don't need to combine the artboards (pages) together if they are not meant to be a spread. Just make sure the printer knows the order of the pages (get a proof!).
If you actually created a drawing as a spread in two separate files (I'm not sure how...), it should be on two adjacent artboards.
Transparency flattening will create whatever your options are. You might actually end up with a file that is even larger than what you have now.
Considering the transparent overlays I would convert the artwork to pixels. That is: only the artwork, not the text.
You can either export pixel files out of Illustrator or import the file into Photoshop thus rasterizing it.
Large file size is subjective. Your artwork is complex, and Illustrator is a "verbose" program (tends to make large files).
To take a look at them in Photoshop, try the File > Export > Export As... menu.
Change the format to PSD and save.
Select Preserve Text Editability; the second option may not be necessary.
(I would move the type layers to the top layer just as policy.)
If all looks good, save as to Photoshop PDF.
>>I went to File > Export > Export as and the image above was the only field that showed up.
Click export and the next dialog box should be the one I shown.
Before rasterizing anything I would talk to the printer about the file specifications. They need to tell you the resolution they want as well as color profiles to use.
You don't want to redo everything after sending them the file, do you?
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Large file size is subjective. Your artwork is complex, and Illustrator is a "verbose" program (tends to make large files).
To take a look at them in Photoshop, try the File > Export > Export As... menu.
Change the format to PSD and save.
Select Preserve Text Editability; the second option may not be necessary.
(I would move the type layers to the top layer just as policy.)
If all looks good, save as to Photoshop PDF.
I went to File > Export > Export as and the image above was the only field that showed up. I'm working on a new iMAC desktop computer - would that make a difference? I also tried File > Export > Export For Screens and the field that came up didn't look like your image either. Am I still doing something wrong?
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