Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop

Adobe makes it very easy to create PDFs. With Creative Suite and Creative Cloud – InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat all share settings with each other. So you only have to install the settings once and directly export press-ready PDFs from any of the publishing programs in the Creative Suite or Creative Cloud.

Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop: CS3 and Later

This guide contains full workflow information for creating PDFs from Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator CS3 and later. These versions of Adobe can save clean, press-ready files with the standard JSM PDF X4 setting.

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Adobe InDesign

Adobe makes it very easy to create PDFs from InDesign.

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Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop

Adobe makes it very easy to create PDFs.

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Quark Xpress 2015 and Later

Quark can directly export PDFs to the industry-standard PDF X4 format.

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Creating PDFs in Other Programs

We support many different design programs.

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