Make pdf from quark

Your printer is screwy. There is something really odd going on here If so, why haven't you read the post about it much higher in this thread?

I did read the post about it higher in the thread but I guess it went over my head. I just did look at the "Page Scaling" option which appears to default to "Shrink Large Pages" since I have never used this option before.

You would think the default setting would be "none. I guess I am having difficulty understanding why a standard 8. It will try to scale a 8. Didn't think of that but now it seems obvious. Thanks for the info. I just proved that I can continue to learn something every day Well I've installed a ficticious HPPS printer, but nowhere can I find the "print to file" check box, so I'm still getting the error message.

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Quote: I have just selected print and then selected create PDF. Thanks, I am new to using the new version of Quark and have just discoved the export feature to save layout as PDf which saves to my desktop as. First of all - if you need high resolution output you have to make images high resolution. We're a small publisher and we create PDFs in quark in the print function, however the page sizes shrink in the process, coming out about 92 percent of true size when it prints.

Hmm I can't say I've encountered it. It's actually smaller. We don't have quark distiller. Picklefish - Thanks. Interestingly, I sent a pdf test page that was printing out 9 percent smaller for us to our printer for him to look at it. To: hamphouse -- Hmmm Are you utilizing the 'scale or fit to page' option in Adobe Acrobat's or Adobe Reader's print dialog?

I have a very similar problem with quarkxpress 6. Red Flag This Post Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Close Box. Log In Come Join Us! Posting Guidelines Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden. To have the application determine the number of tiles needed to print each document page based on the layout size, the media size, whether or not Absolute Overlap is checked, and the value in the Overlap field, choose Automatic.

The value entered in the Overlap field is the amount the application will use to extend the page as needed to create the tile. When Absolute Overlap is checked, the application will use only the value in the Overlap field when extending the page to create the tile.

If Absolute Overlap is unchecked, the application will use at least the amount in the Overlap field when creating the tile, but may use a larger amount if necessary. Do not check Absolute Overlap if you want your layout centered on the final assembled tiles. To specify how pictures are printed, choose an option from the Output drop-down menu. Normal provides high-resolution output of pictures using the data from the pictures' source files.

Low Resolution prints pictures at screen preview resolution. Rough suppresses printout of pictures and gradients and prints a box with the frame and an "x" in it, much like an empty picture box on screen.

To select a format for print data, choose an option from the Data drop-down menu. Although documents print more quickly in Binary format, the ASCII option is more portable because it is a standard format readable by a wider range of printers and print spoolers. Use the Fonts pane to specify which fonts are included in output. Note that many of the options in this pane are available only when printing to a PostScript output device. Fonts listed in the PPD file are not downloaded.

Checking this box disables many of the other controls in this tab. If you are printing to a PostScript level 3 or later output device, or to a device that uses PostScript level 2 version or later, check Optimize Font Formats.

To download all fonts used in the layout , check Download Layout Fonts. To control which fonts are downloaded, uncheck Download Layout Fonts and then check Download for each font you want to download. You can control which fonts are listed by choosing an option from the Show drop-down menu.

To retrieve a list of the fonts included on the active printer, click Scan Printer. Win dows only. To print all colors on one page, choose Composite from the Mode drop-down menu.

To print to a device that handles in-RIP separations, choose Separations from the Mode drop-down menu. For more information about composite output, see " Printing color composites. To specify an output setup for the output device, choose an option from the Setup drop-down menu. For more information about color management, see " Source setups and output setups. To specify default halftone shape and frequency, use the Halftones and Frequency drop-down menus.

The Printer option on the Halftones drop-down menu lets the output device determine all halftone settings. Use the Registration Marks pane to include crop marks, registration marks, and bleed marks in the output. Crop marks are short vertical and horizontal lines printed outside the page's final trim size, indicating where to cut the page.

Registration marks are symbols that are used to align overlaying plates. Bleed marks indicate where page bleeds end. To include crop marks and registration marks on every page, choose Centered or Off Center from the Mode drop-down menu. Values in the Width and Length fields specify the width and length of the crop marks.

Values in the Offset field specify the distance of the crop marks from the page edge. To include marks indicating bleed location, select the Include Bleed Marks option. Use the Layers pane to specify which layers to output and which layers to suppress.

Use the Bleed pane to allow items to bleed extend beyond the page edges at printout. Bleed settings apply to every page in the layout. To create a bleed by defining how far the bleed extends from the layout page edges, choose Symmetric or Asymmetric from the Bleed Type drop-down menu.

To create a bleed that extends the same distance from each page edge, choose Symmetric and enter a value in the Amount field to specify the bleed's distances.

To create a bleed with different distances from each page edge, choose Asymmetric and enter values in the Top , Bottom , Left , and Right fields to specify the bleed distances.

Print and PDF output only: To extend the bleed to encompass all page items that extend beyond the page boundary, choose Page Items. Print and PDF output only: To define whether items that bleed are cut off at the bleed edge or allowed to print in their entirety, check Clip at Bleed Edge. Use the Transparency pane to specify how transparency is handled at export.

The Vector Images control lets you specify a resolution for rasterizing pictures that include vector data when they occur in a transparency relationship.

It's generally a good idea to keep this value high because vector images typically include sharp lines that will look jagged at lower resolutions. The Drop Shadows control lets you specify a resolution for rasterizing drop shadows. This value can be relatively low, unless you create drop shadows with a Blur of zero. Choosing a lower resolution value for one or more of these fields can reduce the time required for flattening and can save processing time when you send the layout to output.

Rotated or skewed items that participate in a transparency relationship must be rasterized before they are sent to the RIP. Because rotate and skew operations tend to degrade the quality of an image if they are performed at low resolutions, QuarkXPress can upsample such items prior to rotating or skewing them, thus minimizing image degradation. Check Upsample Rotations if you want to manually set the upsampled resolution for rotated or skewed items and images that are involved in a transparency relationship.

If you're using low-resolution values, and a rotated or skewed item appears blocky or degraded, check this box and then enter a value in the To field. The To field value should be at least equal to the highest resolution value among the Vector Images , Gradients , and Drop Shadows fields. The dpi for images less than field lets you specify a value above which rotated or skewed items are not upsampled.

The purpose of this field is to prevent rotated or skewed items that are near the Upsample Rotations To value from being needlessly upsampled. In general, set this value to about dpi less than the Upsample Rotations To value. To print items without taking their opacity values into account, check Ignore Transparency Flattening. This option can be useful for troubleshooting transparency-related output issues. To control the resolution of the flattened transparency in imported PDF and Adobe Illustrator files, enter a value in the Flattening Resolution field.

The flattener rasterizes an area only if that area includes a raster element such as a drop shadow, a semi-opaque picture, or a picture masked with an alpha channel.

The flattener does not rasterize areas of solid color regardless of whether they are the result of semiopaque layering unless such areas are overlapped by a raster element. In the Advanced pane, you can specify the PostScript level of the output device. The Summary pane displays a summary of the settings in the other panes. On Windows, the Print dialog box File menu for Print layouts provides a graphical depiction of the output page called the page preview area.

The page preview area does not display the actual items on the layout pages or the specified pages; rather, it represents the shape and orientation of the pages in relation to the target media.

On Mac OS X , the page preview area has been enhanced. The page preview area will display the actual items on the layout pages or the specified pages; it represents the actual page. A black rectangle represents the media area when a sheet-fed device is chosen in the PPD drop-down menu Device pane.

A gray area surrounding the layout represents bleeds when a bleed setting is chosen using the Custom Bleeds Bleed pane. If Automatic tiling is enabled in the Pages pane, the red area does not display. An R will display for the Negative Print. Pages will rotate as per the orientation and the paper size.

To the left of the graphic preview are two smaller icons. The cut-sheet icon indicates that you have selected a cut-sheet output device from the PPD drop-down menu Device pane , whereas a roll-fed icon indicates that you have selected a roll-fed output device from the PPD drop-down menu. The question mark is a drop-down button that displays a legend of the colors used in the page preview area.

If registration marks are turned on Registration Marks pane , they are also displayed in the page preview area. If Thumbnails is checked Pages pane , a preview with thumbnails displays.

Display the Color pane of the Print dialog box File menu. Choose Separation from the Mode drop-down menu. The In-RIP Separations option prints all process and spot color plates and the output is in the composite format. However, the PostScript file to be printed contains separations information.

To use the halftone settings built into the RIP, choose Printer. Choosing this option disables the halftone controls in this pane. To specify a line frequency other than the default value, enter a lines per inch lpi value in the Frequency field, or choose an option from the Frequency drop-down menu.

The list at the bottom of the Color pane displays the plates used in the layout, as well as the default Halftone , Frequency , Angle , and Function settings. Generally, the default settings in the plate list give you correct printing results.

However, you may need to adjust these settings for your particular circumstances. A dash in a column indicates that the column entry is not editable. The Plate column lists spot colors and process inks in the document when you choose Separations from the Mode drop-down menu. The Setup drop-down menu at the top of the Color pane specifies which layout plates are listed. The Halftone drop-down menu lets you assign a different screen angle to a spot color. The Frequency column lists the line screen frequency value.

This is the lines per inch lpi value that will be applied to each of the color plates. The Angle column lists the screen angle for each color plate. To specify alternate dot shapes in printed screens, choose an option from the Function column drop-down menu. Choose Composite from the Mode drop-down menu. As Is describes color items using their source color space, for output to a PostScript composite color device. Choose Conventional or Printer from the Halftones drop-down menu.

The Conventional option uses QuarkXPress calculated halftone screen values. The Printer option uses halftone screen values provided by the selected printer; in this case, QuarkXPress does not send halftoning information. Through Export , Print , and other commands, you can output files in the following formats:. To use the basic EPS export controls:.

To use an existing output style, choose an option from the EPS Style drop-down menu. To modify output settings, click Options. Use the panes in the resulting dialog box to control the format of the exported file. Use the Color pane to choose an output setup for the EPS file and to select which plates should be included in the output.

Use the Fonts pane to specify which fonts are embedded within the exported EPS file. Use the Registration Marks pane to specify the positioning, width, and length of registration marks in the EPS file.

Use the Bleed pane to designate a symmetric or asymmetric bleed type and specify bleed distance around the EPS file. Use the Transparency pane to turn transparency on or off, and to control the resolution of flattened items in the EPS file.

The Summary pane will display a summary of all the choices you have made in the previous panes. Click OK. The Export as PDF dialog box displays. To use an existing output style, choose an option from the PDF Style drop-down menu. Use the Color pane to specify whether to create composite output or separations, to choose an output setup for the PDF file, and to select which plates should be included in the output.

Use the Compression pane to specify compression options for different image types in the PDF file. Use the Pages pane to specify whether to export spreads, whether to export each page as a separate PDF file, whether to include blank pages, and whether to embed a thumbnail of the PDF file.

Use the Registration Marks pane to specify the positioning, width, and length of registration marks in the PDF file. Use the Hyperlink pane to specify how links and lists from the layout export and how hyperlinks should appear in the PDF. You can also use this pane to specify the default zoom of the PDF file. Metadata is available on the L ayout menu. Use the Fonts pane to specify which fonts are embedded within the exported PDF file.

Use the Bleed pane to specify how bleeds are handled in the PDF file. Use the Transparency pane to control how transparent items are flattened. To disable flattening and maintain transparency relationships in the exported PDF, click Export Transparency Natively. To output items without taking their opacity values into account, click Ignore Transparency.

To turn on flattening, click Flatten Transparency. Tagged PDFs are created for compliance with accessibility guidelines. When flattening is turned on, you can specify a resolution for rasterizing pictures that include vector data in a transparency relationship. To do so, click the Vector Images drop-down menu and choose or enter a dpi value. This control applies only when flattening is turned on. To specify a resolution for vector objects regardless of whether flattening is turned on , click the Vector Images drop-down menu and choose or enter a dpi value.

To specify a resolution for rasterizing drop shadows regardless of whether flattening is turned on , click the Drop Shadows drop-down menu and choose or enter a dpi value. To specify resolution for rotated and skewed objects when flattening is turned on, check Upsample Rotations and then enter a value in the To field. The To field value should be at least equal to the highest resolution value among the Vector Images , and Drop Shadows fields. To control the resolution of flattened transparency in imported PDF and Adobe Illustrator files, enter a value in the Flattening Resolution field.

This feature is also unavailable if you choose Separations from the Mode drop-down menu in the Color pane. Use the Summary pane to view a summary of the selected PDF export options.

In recent days, the digital publishing practices emphasize the importance of Accessibility support. There has been demand from the corporate and government organizations, in response to legislation such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, and section of the Rehabilitation Act of As a result, industry standards, such as WCAG have been introduced, to allow the accessibility of information in published forms both PDF, and websites containing HTML output , to be certified, ensuring that the published information is equally accessible to consumers with disabilities that every PDF published must be accessible.

PDF archive standards were equally desired by many governments and corporate organizations. When you export a layout page as an image file you can specify a file name and location and set various export image options.

To export a layout as an image:. You can define whether you want to export some specific or all the Pages or a Selection. It's an image created using the JPEG suite of compression algorithms that will "fade in" in successive waves of lines until the entire image has completely arrived.