Adobe has released 'PDF & Output Guide 2025', a summary of precautions to take when creating submission data in PDF, and the difference from the previous year is like this



Adobe's software for creators includes

Adobe Photoshop , Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Acrobat for creating, editing, and processing PDF files. Adobe has released the ' PDF & Output Guide 2025 ' in line with the latest Adobe Creative Cloud , which includes points to note when submitting works created with Photoshop or Illustrator to a printing company in PDF format.

PDF & Printing Guide 2025
https://blog.adobe.com/jp/publish/2024/10/29/cc-design-print2025



You can view 'PDF & Output Guide 2025' by clicking 'Download' on the Adobe Blog page.



The cover of the manual looks like this:



In the table of contents, there is a blue tag called 'Update' and a yellow tag called 'New!' This tag is attached to the changes from 'PDF & Output Guide 2024' to 'PDF & Output Guide 2025'. Also, the red 'Caution' indicates that at the time of writing the article, a bug called '

Regarding the problem that some PDF presets disappear after launching InDesign 2025 (20.0) ' was confirmed on the official forum and is being addressed.



The first update is the points to note when submitting with Adobe Express . Adobe Express is a design app equipped with the minimum necessary functions of standard tools such as Photoshop and Illustrator, and is a web app or software that makes it easy for non-professional creators to process images and create designs, as it cannot perform as specialized tasks as other apps. Below are the descriptions of how to submit data created with Adobe Express, from the ' PDF & Output Guide 2024 ' on the left and the 'PDF & Output Guide 2025' on the right. In comparison, previously it was necessary to set margins and bleeds for printing in Adobe Acrobat for PDFs exported from Adobe Express, but with the updated functions, it is now easy to create data for offset printing from Adobe Express.



In addition, Adobe will end support for '

PostScript Type 1 fonts,' which were once commonly used in DTP, in January 2023. The 'PDF & Output Guide 2025' lists the specific dates when support for Type 1 fonts will end for each software.



In the update due to a similar support change, 'About the abolition of Pantone color books' is important. Pantone is a company headquartered in New Jersey, USA, and is known for its internationally used color swatch book called 'Pantone Matching System (PMS)'. By specifying colors in PMS, you can unify the colors of all graphic designs and printed materials, but Adobe is

gradually discontinuing support for Pantone color libraries from August 2022. Therefore, the latest Adobe products do not include Pantone color libraries, and when you open a file that contains Pantone color specifications, a warning is displayed saying 'Some Pantone colors may not be available due to changes in the license agreement between Pantone and Adobe.' According to the 'PDF & Output Guide 2025', a separate paid plug-in is required to use Pantone color books.



In addition, the following 'Export Data' pages have also been updated. From the 'PDF & Output Guide 2024' on the left of the image to the 'PDF & Output Guide 2025' on the right of the image, the output procedure for InDesign has not changed, but there has been a change in Illustrator. Previously, if you wanted to convert an Illustrator file to PDF, you could only 'select PDF as the file format when saving under a different name,' but now that a menu called '

Export as PDF ' has been added, the guide states that PDF output is possible in either case.



As a final update, a new item called 'PDF Check with Acrobat Pro' has been added to the 'PDF & Output Guide 2025'. The description of

preflighting before printing and submission was also included as a submenu in the 'PDF & Output Guide 2024', but it has been updated to be more detailed and easier to understand.



In addition, there is a 'character set update function' as a description of the new features added in the October 2024 update. As shown on the left side of the part illustrated in the red frame in the image below, there were problems such as 'when the beginning or end of the text is in brackets, the text looks closer due to the appearance of the symbol' and 'when the character set is specified, punctuation marks come into the battle of the line', but with the new typesetting program, it has been improved to automatically make the character set easier to read and more beautiful.



In addition, the 'PDF & Output Guide 2025'

page contains a guidebook on compatibility with older versions of Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign, as well as a list of new features in the October 2024 update.



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