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Why is PDF quality better using InDesign Presets than Distilling?

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2010-06-09 06:54:16
lauracecelia
Registered: Jan 14 2010
Posts: 5

Can you explain the differences between the way InDesign and Distiller handle PDF creation?
The internal InDesign PDF preset or export function for Press Quality, creates a much sharper PDF than creating a postscript file from InDesign to distill. I use high transparency flattener in both.
The edges of text and images are not as sharp when using distiller. Can you explain?
I am using InDesign CS4, Acrobat 9 Pro version 9.3.2 on MacOSX version 10.5.8.
I prefer to ditill files so I can then increase the final PDF dimensions and not resize the artwork, so need to understand how I can match the quality of the preset function. Failing that is there a way of increasing dimensions of final output if the InDesign presets are used eg create an A1 PDF from an A3 InDesign file.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.3.1, Macintosh
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2010-06-10 04:36:24
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Merlin
Acrobat 9ExpertTeam
Registered: Mar 1 2006
Posts: 766
lauracecelia wrote:
Failing that is there a way of increasing dimensions of final output if the InDesign presets are used eg create an A1 PDF from an A3 InDesign file.
Hi,

simply change the document's size in InDesign before exporting…

:-)

abracadabraPDF.net

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2010-06-10 05:02:32
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lauracecelia
Registered: Jan 14 2010
Posts: 5
Thanks for reply, but not quite what I meant - I need to keep an unchanged version of smaller size and just create a larger PDF (as one can do using distiller) directly from InDesign using their preset PDF function. If I increase the file size I obviously have to increase the actual items on the page, which defeats the object.
lc
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