We're a book printer, and we request PDFs for the text and native files for the cover. The cover almost always requires some minor or major adjustments for the spine bulk and it's far easier to do that in the native files than in a PDF.
In a perfect world I would prefer PDFs. That said, I usually end up working from the native files as we are required to make many changes to customer files to correct bleeds, colors file sizes and more. My previous company went to great pains to educate our customers and supply print specs to fit our needs.
In a perfect world I would prefer PDFs. That said, I usually end up working from the native files as we are required to make many changes to customer files to correct bleeds, colors file sizes and more. My previous company went to great pains to educate our customers and supply print specs to fit our needs.
That's because anybody with a copy of Photoshop now qualifies as a "graphic artist."
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