Importing of PDF Export Preset

Does anyone know how to import an existing PDF export preset into IDS. Ideally I'd like to set up Presets in InDesign desktop and then copy them into IDS, but I cant find where the preset files are stored. Alternatively, I could save existing presets as .joboptions files, and then use the script interface to import them. I cant find the right calls to make.
Thanks.

PDF presets are all stored in the same place for all Adobe applications. If you create a new preset using InDesign desktop it will automatically be available to IDS, and vice versa.<br /><br />On the Mac they're stored in : '/<user>/library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings'<br />On Windows: '<user>\Application Data\Adobe\adobe pdf\settings'

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Hey there again!
I'm now trying to define a preset for the PDF Export process... it's based on the "High Quality Print" (from the Adobe PDF Preset list), and then I want to change "one or two" parameters.
Changing one or two parameters is easy, I've been doing that already, but since most of them are already defined by the "High Quality Print" Preset, my idea was:
Load the "High Quality Preset"
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Many thanks!!
Best regards.

Uwe Laubender wrote:
@m8r-vrpa5v – I think, it is not best practice to change a default PDF Export Preset. Instead I would add a new preset based on the default one.
When looking at your code you have to use the right syntax.
Every time you assign a value to a property you have to use the right object that property belongs to.
Some values are only functional, if some other property is set (this goes especially for the bleed settings).
Do not write:
bleedTop='0mm';
ExtendScript cannot know by itself where this property and its value should be assigned to what object.
Right syntax would be:
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useDocumentBleedWithPDF : true,
bleedTop : 0 ,
bleedBottom : 0 ,
bleedInside : 0 ,
bleedOutside : 0
Hi Uwe,
Thanks for your remark... that was my mistake when using copy paste.
I was reusing code from another script where I used the WITH function, in here I was using a different structure and I didn't correct this.
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to add a pdf export preset to the indesign server the file has to be placed into a directory like
/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings
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? I know that a preset can also be added by scripting
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There is absolutely no way to force minimum line widths within InDesign itself, certainly not as part of the PDF export process!! And even one writes a script to go through every object within an InDesign document and both validate and fix line widths less than some particular threshold, such a script would be useless against placed artwork, the contents of which are not available for manual or programmatic inspection within InDesign.
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We are in the process of reworking one of our workflows in which we would manually use Distiller to create a PDF. Now we are trying to automate this with InDesign. My first thought was that I could try using the same PDF Export Preset (.joboptions file) used in Distiller, load it into InDesign, and export my book as a PDF using this preset.
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Just checking: I think this is what I do now: open Export PDF dialog; set all options,
and click Save Preset... in bottom left? they then all appear permanently under File>PDF Export Presets and in Export PDF dialog. Is that what you mean?
(don't mean to bug you, Buko; I appreciate all the help as ever. just trying to collect all new info.)

Which PDF Export Preset used?

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Thanks.

As someone whose memory seems to be on the decline myself I can sympathise.
There really is nothing magic about a preset -- it's just a collection of settings with a name that you can pick so you don't have to go through the dilgo adjusting stuff, but if you know what settings are appropriate for the job you can do tham manually, too. There are only so many options.
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Hi folks.
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CS2 PDF Export Presets

Hi everyone.
i managed it to export single pages as pdf from .indd files.
(see http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/?13@@.59b67ccb/2)
but now i wanna use diffrent presets like "high quality print" or something. i tried a few things but none of them worked.
[CODE]
doc.Export(idExportFormat.idPDFType, "C:\\testfile.pdf", false, App.PDFExportPresets.FirstItem());
[/CODE]
i found something thats written in javascript
- app.PDFExportPresets.item("prepress")); - but there is no such command as .item in c#.
it doesn't matter wheter i choose FirstItem, LastItem, NextItem or else, it makes no diffrence...
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try below code
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Mi_D

PDF Export Preset

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You only need to "simulate" overprinting when you flatten the transparency (which for spot colors works by overprinting). Since you are leaving the transparency live there is nothing to simulate.

Type shifts upon PDF export

I have been wrestling with an issue for a while now and hope someone can shed some light on it.
When exported from InDesign as a PDF, type often shifts vertically, horizontally, or both. The problem appears to get worse from left to right and top to bottom. The more columns there are, the worse it gets across columns.
This problem was first caught on a commercial printer's proof when I noticed the type had shifted from my InDesign file to their proof. Since most commercial printers use PDF workflows (as this one did), any bug in PDF export represents a major issue. I have had projects print incorrectly due to this and I am in need of a fix that commercial printers can also implement because current projects are suffering from it and past projects have come out wrong.
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Mike

So I think we have a working solution for PDF/X-1a or simply a PDF with version Acrobat 4 (PDF-v1.3).
The trick is to force transparency reduction to the text frame. One can do it without converting text to outline.
Just put a rectangle with a fill of 100% [Paper] set to transparency 0% on top of it. Downside is, that the exported PDF will get a white background.
Currently for PDF/X-4 I see no chance to work around the issue, if:
1. Point size is 9 pt *
2.1. A baseline grid of 12 pt * is used and the paragraph styles are set to align to it
or 2.2. If the pointsize is extactly 9 pt * and the leading is exactly 12 pt *
* I did not check all other creteria you mentioned in your 7th post: the ratio assumption between pointsize and leading, maybe the formula is something like that: Text Line Distance = n * (Pointsize + Pointsize / 3 ) => creep.
I packed all documents to a zip archive that you can download from my Dropbox account:
Dropbox - 150127-1-TextShift-CS5.5.zip
150127-1-TextShift-CS5.5.zip contains the following files:
   150127-1-TextShift-CS5.5.indd
   150127-1-TextShift-CS5.5.idml
   Layer-Text2Path-VISIBLE-PDF-X1a.pdf
   Layer-Text2Path-NOT-VISIBLE-PDF-X1a.pdf
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Text2Path (currently invisible)
Layer1
PDF-Layer-Text2Path-VISIBLE-when-exported   (currently invisible)
PDF-Layer-Text2Path-NOT-VISIBLE-when-exported (currently invisible)
The mentioned white rectangle is placed on master spread A on layer "Text2Path".
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Layer "PDF-Layer-Text2Path-NOT-VISIBLE-when-exported" contains the placed PDF "Layer-Text2Path-NOT-VISIBLE-PDF-X1a.pdf"; layer color is red and showing the issues.
Both PDFs are exported with the same PDF Export Preset.
Uwe

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I use indesign to create a roughly 68-page marketing booklet. The document is landscape and setup to print on 8.5" x 11" as a landscape book with facing-pages. I upload a PDF to a professional printing company to print a full bleed booklet. The book usually includes roughly 15, full-page, high resolution images as well as numerous other high resolution images throughout so it is important that the resolution is as high as possible and the images come out clean when printed.
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Indesign PDF Export issue - quality

I have InDesign Desktop CS5 and InDesign Server CS5.5
When I export using InDesign Desktop, it exports a 2.16mb file and everything is sharp.
When I export using Indesign Server, it exports a 264kb file and at 125% zoom level, it looks blurry.
The preset we used was High Quality Print.
I cannot get the file over 2mb on InDesign Server (max was 1.2mb with all the settings turned on).
How can this be when it's using the same pdf export preset and same template? I also tried manually creating new preset based on the High Quality Print settings but it's still blurry.
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The directory structure for the template files are the same for Desktop and Server.
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This is for Indesign Server but applies to Indesign desktop as well.
Using javascript, I actually changed the settings of the default PDF export presets. Is there a way to reset them to the default values or do I have to reinstall Indesign?

That must be done in Acrobat.
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