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Chapter 2: Creating Certified PDF Documents30

Understanding the PDF Creation

Process

Different approaches towards the same ultimate

goal

No matter how you create a PDF document, your

ultimate goal will always be the same: you want to

have an output-ready PDF document in the most

efficient way.

“Output-ready” meaning that you, or the recipient

of your PDF document, will be able to publish the

PDF document, for example on the Web, in print,

on CD-ROM or on whatever medium.

“The most efficient way” meaning that the PDF

creation process is smooth, quick and easy. You

want to spend (or waste) as little time as possible

on:

• Specifying settings in various programs which

ultimately define the quality of your PDF

document

• Checking, reviewing, editing or even

re-creating your PDF document to get it ready

for output

You can achieve this goal by using Instant PDF to

create your PDF documents. In order to use Instant

PDF in the most efficient way, it is important that

you have a good understanding of how PDF docu-

ments can be created and what happens “behind

the scenes” in this process.

This section describes the two different PDF creation

workflows:

• Creating PDF Documents the Conventional

Way: Trial and Error

• Creating PDF Documents the Enfocus Way: the

One-Step Process to an Output-Ready PDF File

Creating PDF Documents the

Conventional Way: Trial and

Error

Save as PDF

Let’s consider the conventional way of creating PDF

documents. Most applications today, for example

word processors, desktop publishing programs, or

graphic design software, have a Save as PDF func-

tion with which you can simply convert your source

file to a PDF document.

Convert to Adobe PDF button

Some programs may even have a dedicated Convert

to Adobe PDF button to do this. This button may

look like this: . Thus, it may seem that creating

PDF documents is a one-step process: you click the

button or save your file as PDF. However, this is not

always the case. What actually happens is that you

print your document to a (temporary) PostScript

file. This file is then taken to Acrobat Distiller and

converted to a PDF file.

Creating PDF documents step by step

Some people do not use the Convert to Adobe PDF

button or Save as PDF function and prefer the

step-by-step approach:

1 Print the source file to a PostScript file.

2 They open this file in Acrobat Distiller and

convert it to a PDF file.

This way of creating PDF documents is a multi-stage

process with pitfalls rather than pitstops at every

stage.

Conventional PDF workflow

When you create a PDF document, you do more

than just creating it:

• You want to make sure that the PDF document

is okay. Therefore, you also review your PDF

document and try to correct any errors, if

possible.

• When the PDF document looks okay, you

“deliver” it, which can mean that you save it

on a specific location or you send it to

someone else.

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