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Corel To PDFtutorial

This document provides instructions for saving a Corel Draw file as a PDF with the optimal settings. It recommends flattening any transparencies before saving. When saving to PDF, the settings should be "PDF for Prepress" with a bleed of 0.125 inches. Images should be saved as 300ppi JPEG with maximum quality, monochrome images at 1200ppi, and text exported as curves with compression. The output color mode should be CMYK.

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Corel To PDFtutorial

This document provides instructions for saving a Corel Draw file as a PDF with the optimal settings. It recommends flattening any transparencies before saving. When saving to PDF, the settings should be "PDF for Prepress" with a bleed of 0.125 inches. Images should be saved as 300ppi JPEG with maximum quality, monochrome images at 1200ppi, and text exported as curves with compression. The output color mode should be CMYK.

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Saving your Corel Draw

document to a PDF file.

This tutorial is designed to show the best way to save an Corel Draw file to a PDF, for use with
our system. It will also show the best setting to save time when uploading the files to the
website.

Pre-Save options
It is always a good practice to simplify the document before Publishing to PDF. This includes Flattening
all transparencies.

Flatten Transparency: The best way to insure that the quality of your images are preserved

is to rasterize any artwork that uses transparencies. This will help the file translate better into the PDF.
First select any image using transparency and the background art
Then under the Bitmaps menu select Convert to Bitmap
Next select CMYK for the Color option and 300dpi for the Resolution option and click OK
Note: Corel documents with transparencies often have issues when translated to a PDF. For this
reason we recommend following this step to reduce the risk of having any transparency issues.

After the file has been prepared and simplified, we are ready to save it as a PDF.

Step 1
Under the File menu choose the Publish to PDF option.
To start choose the PDF for Prepress setting. (We will be modifying the settings a little).

Step 2
PREPRESS:
Check Include Bleed and set it to .125 in
Note: Having less than 1/8 bleed may cause your order to have delays.

Step 3
OBJECTS:
Set Color Bitmap Images to 300ppi with the compression set to JPEG and the Quality set to the
Maximum
Set Grayscale Bitmap Images to 300ppi with the compression set to JPEG and the Quality set to the
Maximum
Set Monochrome Bitmap Images to 1200ppi
In the Text and fonts setting check Export all text as curves.
Check Compress text and line art.
Set the Encoding to Binary.
Note: You can also use ZIP compression because it uses non-lossy compression. It will make a larger
file that will take longer to upload, but with smaller files, such as business cards and postcards, the
larger size is usually minimal.

Step 4
ADVANCED:
Check Preserve document overprints
Uncheck Preserve spot colors
Uncheck Optimized for Web
Under Color Management set Output all objects as to CMYK
Note: If there are complex patterns or fills it is a good idea to Check Render complex fills as bitmaps

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