How do I protect my pdfs now? I sell my pdfs for printables and need to lock down the graphics and text while also allowing the buyer to print these up.
Currently the print shops my buyers use are slowly migrating to automated printing programs where the buyer needs to separate the pdf pages for these automated systems in order to put in print orders. In the long run locking the pdfs would only create more of a hassle with all this. These print shops only take pdfs. So flattening the pdfs seems the obvious way to go now to protect the graphics.
I need to flatten the pdf pages but the best quality press print quality so far has been with Powerpoint 2013 to Acrobat XI to print using print to image. I have been reading for days all the ways you can flatten here but many times it is with different versions of Acrobat and I am not able to follow the advice since it doesn't match up with my version. Also I have not found any of the suggestions that print up well of the ones I could follow. I have made so many settings changes to test this all out too and it really is a Pandora's Box, I need to reset Acrobat and start over. Is there a reset button?
I bought Acrobat XI for the security and well I don't feel like Adobe is really addressing good options now that these passwords can be easily hacked on websites for free. All I get from Adobe after a clean install is a pop up that explains when I secure a document it can be unsecured. Ok Adobe, then what do we do now?
It sure would be nice to have a break down on this site of best settings for each version of Acrobat for press quality printing a pdf.
I did try the Sanitize and that seemed to do better than most of the other ways I had tried, but some of the outlines of the graphics are missing in spots.
I export from PP 2013 at 300dpi after a registry change and also checked in advanced settings "Do not compress graphics."
I added the Print Production button and some say use the Flattener Preview but really what settings should that be in if that creates the best print job?
I have gone into the Preflight but I really don't get how to set all these settings.
I have downloaded several pdfs on this site on how to use Sanitizer etc but none really address much.
Perhaps Acrobat can't do a good print job and that is why the answers are so hard to find at this site? Any suggestions what would work better?
I have done the turn the pdf into tiffs in Acrobat XI and then combine the pdfs and it doesn't do a great job of printing. Also tried it with pngs and not so great.
I have done the saving as optimizing and not that great.
I have bumped the dpi in Acrobat XI to 600dpi and that did better but doesn't flatten it.
I have printed to Adobe Printer and that was not good at all.
When I use the old method of PP2013 to pdf the print job is good. Some how with all those layers it will print up fine. So I do think Acrobat has the ability to compress without so much fuzziness.Or is it PP2013 that is doing the better compression? It can compress from PP2013 no problem but when it has to compress again it just gets sloppy. When I click to save from a PP2013 I just click the Save As Pdf. I don't have to make a ton of setting changes to get a good pdf. Why should I have to in order to get a good flattened pdf?
Why should I have to scour all these threads for basic better printing settings for Acrobat XI, it really should have a place with this info easily found with a search, like Acrobat XI settings for press quality flattening and printing.
I paid for Acrobat XI to improve my productivity and spending so much time looking on these forums has not been that productive.