Why not ask your customer to save out a PDF/X-4 ? Lets say they are unhappy with the resulting PDF ( Perhaps they wrong layer is visible ) - they can modify it and then send a PDF to you that was what they intended. The X in PDF/X is 'eXchange' - the entiner point is to accomplish a blind reliable exchange of a ready for print file.Appreciate the input-
On a pdf from client in what ever they save it as and placing in indesign and resaving as
PDF/X-4 would that change pdf? or it keeps its original saved mode?
You must not deal with the general public. Most don't even know what a PDF is. I can imagine all the extra work we would be doing for the client by specifying PDF/X-4. "Why do you need that? Joe Blow down the street prints from our jpeg's, why can't you?" "How do I make that in Canva?"Why not ask your customer to save out a PDF/X-4 ? Lets say they are unhappy with the resulting PDF ( Perhaps they wrong layer is visible ) - they can modify it and then send a PDF to you that was what they intended. The X in PDF/X is 'eXchange' - the entiner point is to accomplish a blind reliable exchange of a ready for print file.
Appreciate the input-
On a pdf from client in what ever they save it as and placing in indesign and resaving as
PDF/X-4 would that change pdf? or it keeps its original saved mode?
Hi
I agree with Dov, but for the future we have to start talking about pdfx6 v2.0, what do you think Dov?
Hi Craig - We are a developer ( SmartSoft ) of a Print MIS system ( PressWise ) - while I personally do not process and print PDF files, 100% of our customers do. In PressWise, if a PDF file is submitted for printing, there is a soft proof stage, where the user can preview how that file will print - if they reject their own file, the standard answer is simply "re-export as PDF/X-4" - then the user can control what they need. Anyone buying print wants it right. Anyone buying print is not "the general public". Joe Blow can certainly upload JPGs and PNG files, but they still need to pay when their print file looks like dog shit. PDF/X was developed for this very reason.You must not deal with the general public. Most don't even know what a PDF is. I can imagine all the extra work we would be doing for the client by specifying PDF/X-4. "Why do you need that? Joe Blow down the street prints from our jpeg's, why can't you?" "How do I make that in Canva?"
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