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The ability to produce reliable, consistent, and predictable output is vital for every graphic design professional. However, because of the enormous diversity of operating systems, printing devices, fonts, and software, it is becoming increasingly difficult to produce reliable, consistent, and predictable output. Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) can help address many problem areas making printing easier and more successful.

In the past, jobs were submitted to a printer or service provider with all images, fonts, and source documents. Often files or fonts were missing, causing the file to print incorrectly. Each occurrence cost time, supplies, and of course money.

PDF's can address this issue because they are stand-alone files that embed all elements needed to print the document. For example, when a designer creates a brochure using QuarkXPress, he/she imports a variety of graphics and may use a few fonts. These fonts and graphic files are needed in order to successfully print the document. However, if the designer saves (or exports) the files as a PDF document all the elements such as fonts, graphics, and images are saved together as one PDF file.

This file can then be transported either on disk or e-mailed depending on the file size. The benefits of PDF are as follows:

1) They are highly portable

2) They are stand-alone, meaning they contain all elements needed to print the document

3) They are editable ( Only with the Full version of Acrobat )

4) They can be opened and printed on multiple operating systems.

5) They are platform and device independent.

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