Document Setup Basics

All pages of your black & white or color book must be one file in sequential order. No page spreads.

• Set your layout page size to to match your final individual page size.  Do not use an oversize page as a pasteboard.
  
• Make certain that you have provided that 1/8" bleed for all images and for any other items that touch the outer edges of the pages in your document.
  
• Do not use Non-White Areas clipping paths. For best results all clipping paths should be created within Photoshop (or other image editing applications) and the files should be saved using the EPS format with the clipping path enabled.
  
• Convert all type in any placed EPS files to shapes.
  
  

Exporting Your QuarkXPress Document to PDF

1. The first step in exporting PDF files from QuarkXPress is to set up the Preferences for the type of PDF that you will need to export. Navigate to the Prefernces dialogue box and select PDF in the left column. Then click the Default Options button.

2. Click the Job Options button at the top. Select the Embed all fonts option. Set Compression Options to None and Keep Resloution for each of the three image types. Select the Compress Text and Line Art option. Leave ASCII unchecked.

3. Click the Output button at the top. Set the Color Output type to Composite and the Print Colors to CMYK.

Check the Produce Blank Pages option.

Uncheck the Use OPI option.

Set the Registration to Centered with an offset of 9 pt (.125").

The Bleed Type should be set to Symetric and the amount to .125".

Click OK

4. You are now ready to create PDF files from your QuarkXPress documents. From the File menu select:

Export > Layout as PDF.

 

5. A dialogue box with the Default Job Options that you set up in step 2 will then come up.

Click OK.


Click Save to create your PDF.

All pages of your black & white or color book must be one file in sequential order. No page spreads.