PagePlus

Print Range
To export less than the whole publication, specify the range of Pages to export or just the Current Page. When printing a book, you can select Entire book to output all chapters, or Selected chapters to output just those you selected. Whichever option you’ve chosen, a drop-down list lets you export all pages in the range, or just odd or even pages.

Compatibility
· For standalone PDFs, select a version of the standard Acrobat format. You’ll get best results by using the latest version, but if your intended audience is unlikely to have the latest Reader software, you may opt for an earlier version.
· When handing off a PDF file to a professional printer, select either “PDF/X-1″ or “PDF/X-1a” as directed by your print partner. (For more on these formats, see Generating professional output.)

Options
· Check Impose pages to produce a page sequence suitable for a folded publication or one that uses facing pages. Unchecking this option will output pages using the same page order as in the PagePlus publication. Normally you’ll check this option for professional printing (if in doubt, double-check with your print partner).
· Check or uncheck to include/exclude hyperlinks, non-printing layers, PageHints or bookmarks in the PDF file. These elements are ignored when a PDF is printed, but for professional printing output you should deselect the options in any case.
· For more convenient on-screen viewing in your PDF reader/viewer, you can check Fit to complete page or Fit to page width to specify how the publication will initially appear.
· Check or uncheck the Show non-visible layers to include or exclude objects on layers that are currently hidden in your publication.
· Check Optimize for Fast Web View to insert code that allows PDF streaming if your file is downloaded for viewing in a web browser. This feature provides pages “on demand” for rapid visibility—so for example if the reader switches to page 99, page 99 will download next. Note: Bear in mind that you’ll see a distinct benefit from PDF streaming only if your file is to be opened from a web site. Enabling the feature will add to the time it takes to publish your file.
· Check Preview PDF file to display the document in the PDF reader/viewer immediately after exporting. If unchecked, you won’t see a preview.
· Check Show Warnings to show a warning dialog indicating common PDF generation problems such as low-resolution graphics, missing fonts, bleed/crop errors, and inclusion of unsupported PDF form fields. Otherwise, the dialog is not displayed.

Publish profile
Select a preset profile from the Publish profile drop-down list; each profile stores a set of PDF publishing settings for specific types of output (e.g., Press Ready). To save the current combination of PDF output settings as a custom publish profile with a unique name, click the Save As… button next to the Publish profile list. Type in a new name and click OK. In a subsequent session you can recall the profile by selecting its name from the list.

A color calibration bar is a reference strip consisting of 8 squares, with 100% values for cyan, blue, magenta, red, yellow, green, process black (C+Y+M) and pure black.

Compression tab

If your publication is picture-intensive, and you’re prepared to trade off a bit of graphic quality for smaller file size, the Compression tab provides separate options for shrinking Color, Grayscale, and Monochrome images. As some
level of compression is always applied, be sure to inspect the result to make sure the quality meets your standards before passing the PDF to your readers!

Downsample image
Check the box (for a particular type of image) to reduce the resolution of each such image to the value specified in the list.

Compression
Select a compression method from the list to apply to downsampled images.

Quality
Where applicable for a particular compression method, select a quality level from the list.

Security tab

The Security tab lets you add password protection to keep the contents of your document away from unintended eyes. You can also lock certain capabilities to prevent unauthorized dissemination or changes. Passwords and permissions apply only to the exported document.
Note: If you employ a password, be sure to write it down somewhere!

Require a password to open the document
Check this option to attach a password, then type the password into the field below. Each reader will need to supply this password in order to read the PDF file.

Permissions
· Check Master password required to change permissions and passwords (and then type one into the field) if you want to lock additional document options. The password will be invoked if someone attempts to modify your settings in a PDF editor.
· Check one or more boxes below to disable document printing, content modification, content copying, and/or editing of comments and form fields.  

Advanced tab

Fonts
· If your publication uses TrueType or PostScript fonts that your readers are unlikely to have (and if display accuracy is important, which is usually the case), check Embed fonts to include the fonts in the PDF file. That way, the publication will appear exactly as you intended.  
· Check Exclude common fonts to ensure that standard Windows fonts like Arial, Times New Roman, Symbol, or Wingdings will not be embedded. It’s safe to assume any Windows users viewing the PDF will already have these fonts—but leave the box unchecked for professional printing to ensure all font information is present.
· Checking Subset fonts helps to reduce file size by ensuring that only those characters of a font actually used in the publication (i.e. a subset) are exported. Subsetting “kicks in” for a particular font if less than the Under percentage of the characters in that font is actually used. At the default setting of 100%, subsets are always used. But if you lowered the setting to 50%, and the publication used 75% of the characters in a given font, PagePlus would include the full font set rather than a subset.
· If necessary (but it shouldn’t be) you can check Convert text to outlines and uncheck Embed fonts which will cause all text to be treated as graphics.

Transparency
These settings enable PagePlus objects using applied semi-transparency to be rendered successfully in a PDF reader/viewer that supports transparency, e.g. Adobe Reader. Masking creates a separate monochrome bitmap defining the transparent region, while stripping outputs transparent graphics in thin “slices.” Both methods have pros and cons, with masking generally preferable. Masking and stripping features will add to the output time but may result in more satisfactory transparency.

· Check Use 8-bit alpha channel to maintain alpha-channel transparency without any flattening of graphics.

· Check Flatten and Mask, Flatten and Strip and Flatten only options only after consulting with your print partner. However, older versions of Adobe Reader and some professional RIPs (raster image processors) don’t fully support masking. For Flatten and Strip, you may need to experiment with the Strip size value to achieve the best results. Smaller values mean smoother lines, but more complex PDF files—with the worst case possibility that older versions of Adobe Reader may have difficulty opening the file.

· Set the Transparent area DPI setting as high as your print partner recommends. Otherwise, we recommend 300 dpi for desktop printer output and 96 for online viewing.

Check Render complex fills as bitmaps to export such objects as bitmapped graphics, at the expense of a larger PDF file size. Objects that use Linear, Radial, and Conical fills display rather slowly in Adobe Reader. Uncheck the box to leave the objects as vector graphics.