PDF from PS and Indesign

[loustique20]

I wanted t know what is the difference between creating a PDF from a postscript file, and directly from InDesign.
Thanks!

 

[InvisSoul]

A postscript file is flattened and if you distill a PDF from that postscript no matter what PDF version you choose it will remain flat and most likely a smaller file size than the postscript.
Exporting a PDF from Indesign, depending on what version of PDF you choose, any version above 1.3 will remain layered unless your ripping/refining process flattens it. Version 1.3 and below will be flattened.

Hope that helps you out.

 

[Verve]

pre-ripped

pre-ripped

hi!
The fact that you should distilled (pre ripped) is that, printer should acquires a perfect data file! Designers(data originator,supplier) therefore should detect & eliminate any existing PS error during the preparation of PDF. In this sense, the preparation of PDF should similar to a RIP operation at prepress facilities (our front end workflow system), meaning that the *.ps files should being "pre-ripped" 1st by distiller.
Hope this help!




BE PART OF THE SOLUTION, NOT PART OF THE PROBLEM

 

[Dov Isaacs]

hi!
The fact that you should distilled (pre ripped) is that, printer should acquires a perfect data file! Designers(data originator,supplier) therefore should detect & eliminate any existing PS error during the preparation of PDF. In this sense, the preparation of PDF should similar to a RIP operation at prepress facilities (our front end workflow system), meaning that the *.ps files should being "pre-ripped" 1st by distiller.
Hope this help!

Sorry, but these comments make little sense.

You are not somehow pre-flighting content by producing PDF via distillation of PostScript from InDesign. The only time you would get a PostScript error in distilling PostScript from InDesign is if you found a bug in the PostScript generated from InDesign. Quite frankly, the PostScript generated by all recent versions (since InDesign 2.0) has been exceptionally clean.

If you get PostScript errors or any other type of error in RIPing PDF that is directly exported from InDesign (the preferred method and the method recommended by Adobe), then it is most likely a problem with your RIP. (There are many PostScript RIPs out there that don't conform to the Adobe PostScript specification as well as PDF RIPs that don't conform to the PDF Specification.) Since the Distiller is a effectively an Adobe PostScript RIP conforming to the Adobe PostScript specification, it is most unlikely to find any problems that would trip up some dodgy CloneScript RIP.

- Dov