Thoroughbred Printing Pre-Press PowerPak!

Thank you for making Thoroughbred Printing your Hometown Printing Choice! This package has been designed with our customers' needs as our number one priority. Your business is important to us and we want to make the client-printer relationship and your overall experience with us as sucessful and productive as possible. If you have any questions contact your Sales Person or Customer Service Representative.

Contents

In this package we have assembled together a handful of documents in an easy to read PDF format that you can access from any Mac or PC computer with Acrobat Reader. As part of our extensive Customer Service capabilities we are providing these documents as tools to streamline your interaction with our Preflight and Prepress departments. Below is a brief synopsis and list of each item contained in the Pre-Press PowerPak. These reference documents are also suitable for printing to a laser printer and can be distributed freely in digital or printed format.

Welcome Readme.pdf - This is the file you are reading now.

Prepress Specs.pdf - details the Do’s and Dont’s of file preparation with tips on which software to use, how to save out graphics and scans, send fonts, manage color, and transfer files.

Indesign Export.pdf - This document shows how to setup an Adobe Indesign CS2 PDF preset. With step by step instructions on how to save and utilize the preset on your computer, and precise screenshots detailing each of the parameters to make print ready PDFs from native Indesign files using your own computer.

Distiller Export.pdf - This document shows how to setup an Adobe Distiller PDF preset. With step by step instructions on how to save and utilize the preset on your computer, and precise screenshots detailing each of the parameters to make print ready PDFs from postscript files using your own computer.

Quark Export.pdf - This document shows how to setup a Quark Xpress PDF output style. With step by step instructions on how to save and utilize the output style on your computer, and precise screenshots detailing each of the parameters to make print ready PDFs from native Quark Xpress files using your own computer.

Thoroughbred Printing FTP.pdf - This document provides information on accessing and uploading or downloading files to and from our FTP site.

ThoroughbredPrinting.joboptions - This file has all the settings detailed in our Indesign.pdf and Distiller Export.pdf documents already selected and ready to import directly into your Adobe applications. This single file is compatible with Indesign, Distiller, Photoshop and Illustrator. Once you import it to any one of the Adobe applications it should be available to all of them. The PDF preset can then be used via the Export or Adobe PDF preset menus of the respective application.

To import this file using Indesign click File "Adobe PDF Presets" Define... next click the Load button and select the ThoroughbredPrinting.joboptions file located on your computer.

To import the file using Illustrator or Photoshop click Edit "Adobe PDF Presets... next click the Import or Load button and select the ThoroughbredPrinting.joboptions file located on your computer.

To import this file using Distiller click Settings "Add Adobe PDF Settings... select the ThoroughbredPrinting.joboptions file located on your computer then click Open.

ThoroughbredPrinting.xml - This file has all the PDF output settings detailed in our Quark Export.pdf document already selected and ready for import directly into Quark Xpress 7. Once you import the output style into Quark it can be accessed as a PDF style via the File "Export" Layout as PDF menu.

To import this file using Quark 7 click Edit "Output Styles... next click the Import button and select the ThoroughbredPrinting.xml file located on your computer, then click Save.