PDF HandShake UB+ User manual


Contents

1 About the chapters of this manual
2 An introduction to HELIOS PDF HandShake
2.1 About PDF
2.2 New PDF HandShake features
2.3 Product description
2.4 Known limitations
3 Installation
4 Before getting started
5 Setting up PDF HandShake with HELIOS Admin
5.1 Access to the Admin
5.2 PDF HandShake options
5.2.1 Server-wide PDF settings
5.2.2 Printer queue settings for PDF
5.3 More options for ImageServer users
5.3.1 Server-wide settings for PDF (OPI)
5.3.2 Printer queue settings for PDF (OPI)
5.4 ICC rendering intent settings (HELIOS Admin)
5.4.1 Spot color editor
6 PDF HandShake utility programs
6.1 pdfcat
6.1.1 Options
6.1.2 Operands
6.2 pdfform
6.2.1 Options
6.3 pdfinfo
6.3.1 Options
6.4 pdfnote
6.4.1 Options
6.5 pdftoeps
6.5.1 Options
6.6 pdfprint
6.6.1 Options
6.7 pdfresolve
6.7.1 Options
6.7.2 Valid parameter keys
6.8 PDF preflighting with pdfInspektor
6.8.1 Options
6.8.2 Arguments
6.8.3 Included sample scripts
7 Editing pre-separated PDF documents
8 Printing with PDF HandShake
8.1 pdfprint
8.1.1 Program behavior and defaults
8.1.2 Options
8.1.3 Setting up halftoning
8.1.4 Examples
8.2 Printing PDF files using the Acrobat plug-in
9 The standard OPI workflow using PDF files
9.1 Tagging PDF files
9.2 About the handling of PDF files (OPI server)
9.2.1 Automatic layout generation
9.2.2 PDF-native OPI replacement
9.2.3 Resolving OPI comments in PDF files
9.2.4 Pre-separated PDF files and ImageServer
9.3 OPI layout images of PDF files
9.3.1 PDF shading support
9.3.2 Options for the "layout" program
9.3.3 Attributes for "layout" options
10 Export for Imposition with ImageServer
10.1 Export for Imposition in Acrobat
10.2 Using the export option in "pdfprint"
10.3 Features of the exported documents
10.4 Imposition software products
11 Create PDF Server
11.1 Installation
11.1.1 Prerequisites
11.1.2 Server memory requirements
11.1.3 Mac server installation
11.1.4 Windows server installation
11.2 Setting up a "Create PDF" printer queue with HELIOS Admin
11.2.1 Create PDF connection
11.2.2 Composite PDF without color space transforms
11.3 Print to the "Create PDF" printer queue
11.3.1 Balancing "Create PDF" print jobs (Balance queue)
11.4 Possible Problems
12 PDF-native OPI workflow
12.1 Choosing the file format to place in InDesign
12.2 Exporting PDF from InDesign
12.3 Using printer queue settings to configure "pdfresolve"
12.3.1 Downsampling and output compression
12.3.2 Hot folder setup
12.4 Limitations
12.5 Remote PDF-native OPI workflows
13 HELIOS Tool Server
14 Preferences
14.1 Global PDF preferences
14.2 PDF manager preferences
14.3 PDF printer queue preferences
14.3.1 "pdfif" preference keys
14.4 Ghostscript Create PDF preference keys
15 Example workflow
A 1 Create PDF files using Acrobat Distiller
A 2 Colors, color matching, proofing - basic concepts
A 3 Using PDF HandShake with ColorSync 2 XT 2.1
A 4 PDF transparency
A 4.1: Controlling Transparency Processing in PDF HandShake
A 4.1.1 PDF transparency in printing
A 4.1.2 PDF to EPSF conversion and EPSF layout generation from PDF documents
A 4.1.3 High-resolution PDF documents with transparencies in OPI workflows
A 4.1.4 Previews of PDF documents with transparencies in PrintPreview
A 4.2: Configuring Distiller 8 for processing PDF HandShake output with transparencies
A 4.3: Limitations of PDF Transparency support in ImageServer and PrintPreview
A 4.4: Troubleshooting with PDF transparencies
A 5 About fonts
A 5.1: PDF font processing
A 5.2: Font types in PDF
A 5.2.1 Bitmap fonts vs. outline fonts
A 5.2.2 PostScript/non-PostScript fonts
A 5.2.3 Type 1 fonts
A 5.2.4 Type 3 fonts
A 5.2.5 TrueType fonts
A 5.2.6 Multiple master fonts
A 5.2.7 CID fonts
A 6 The fonts we deliver
A 7 Glossary
Index

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