how do i create high res pdf from psd file?

[Guest]

Hi all,

I've been searching endlessly for this answer however I cant get the answer. My commercial printer is requesting a high resolution pdf file, and i created my artwork in photoshop 2. Can anyone tell me how to create a high res pdf with this file? Someone told me I need to purchase acrobat 9, however from research I've conducted there are no tutorials to achieve this either, and $500 is a little steep for a waste of time

[Mylenium]

File --> Save As... --> choose Photoshop PDF. Anyway, that's not what your printer meant most likely. That's gonna hurt, so hold your pants: Seems you created your current file completely wrong and need to start over. Files for commercial printing need to be 300 DPI (the actual logic behind print res is much more complicated, but 300 DPI is considered a common safe value). Anything below that is more or less unusable, as it will look pixelated due to how rasterization works. ideally you would also creatze it in CMYK and thus be able to provide clean separations of the printing inks, but these days converting RGB post facto is usually not that big a problem....

Mylenium

[Guest]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. My file was created using 300dpi in cmyk, but when I click save as I am not given an option of saving to pdf, and only four options are present for example tiff, photoshop raw and two others?

Is there not a way to save as eps or something and run it through distiller and then add to acrobat?

Thanks.

[Noel Carboni]

What do you mean by "Photoshop 2"?  Are you referring to Photoshop CS2?

If Photoshop CS2, then you have been given the proper instructions.

If the option shown is unavailable to you, then your Photoshop installation is scrogged.  Reinstall it.

-Noel

[Bob@]

I don't have CS2, but in CS4/CS5, you get different options fro saving as definition

increases. By the time 32 bit is selected, the list is very limited and doesn't include PDF (Image > Mode > 32 bits/channel)

Switch to 16 or 8 for PDF.

Bob