Printer-Friendly PDF?
Cynthia Celeste Miller:
How does one go about making a printer-friendly version of an existing PDF product?
This may sound like a rather silly question, considering that I've been involved with PDF publishing for years, but I've never needed to do a printer-friendly version until now. However, upon releasing Cartoon Action Hour: Season 2 on Halloween, I've been bombarded with emails asking for one. I'm clueless in this department.
I'm assuming that any element that uses color (sidebars, header bars, etc.) should be made so that they have no fill. Beyond that, I'm figuring that the removal of artwork is going to be necessary as well. Removing such things will change the whole layout, which means that I'll basically have to re-do the table of contents and index.
Have I covered all the bases in this post or is there more I should know?
Thanks.
Vulpinoid:
What are you hoping to achieve with this printer friendly PDF?
I've been working for a company that produces the pricing tickets that you see in retail chains...in this case, most stores have different printers with different margins, inks and print quality. I've found that you can never get a consistent product produced from a range of different printers, and trying to achieve this is an exercise in futility. This will get complicated further when the US uses letter sized paper in their printers while much of the rest of the world uses A4.
Most file types are far worse than PDF for standardisation purposes.
The best I could suggest is ensure that there is decent white-space around the page. Keep images to 100dpi or so to reduce spooling times and minimise download bulk...this also means people will purchase copies of your book for the better quality images (if that's the path your taking).
I could offer a few more suggestions, but you'll have to let me know what specific issues you are trying to overcome.
Note that producing pages that are able to be photocopied is a completely different story to producing pages that are able to be printed. For photocopies you'd be looking at minimizing gradients and coloured images.
Fill us in and we'll help you out.
V
Cynthia Celeste Miller:
Quote from: Vulpinoid on November 03, 2008, 03:26:00 PM
What are you hoping to achieve with this printer friendly PDF?
V
Basically, the customers want something that won't suck up their printer ink when they print it out.
iago:
Yeah, for my printer-friendly stuff I eliminate all background textures and try to go easy on the ink-heavy art.
Cynthia Celeste Miller:
Quote from: iago on November 03, 2008, 03:40:11 PM
Yeah, for my printer-friendly stuff I eliminate all background textures and try to go easy on the ink-heavy art.
Yeah, almost all of my art is ink-intensive, as it's full color. Would you suggest eliminating the art outright?
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