Need help getting ready for print

I am running Photoshop CS5 on a Mac 10.8.4.
I have basic photoshop experience.
My designer has left me in the lurch at a daedline and I need to get some material to the printer ASAP.
The design is finished.
The printer wants all the text outlined and the images embedded then a "high quality PDF" submitted to print.
Please can someone tell me how to outline text and imbed images. (I know how to savw to PDF).
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Select a Text Layer and invoke
Type > Convert to Shape
to make the text layer a layer with a vector mask.
As for embedding images if you create the pdf in Photoshop I don’t see the relevance of the request.
But the settings you choose for Compression and Output are relevant factors.
Which Color Space does the printer request? (And please don’t say CMYK …)
What is the Color Space and Color Mode of the file you work on?

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I have a Canon G12 and shoot in RAW format. I know the native aspect ration for this camera in RAW is 4:3. I also know already that the two sizes of finished prints I am interested in are 8x10 and 16x20. After importing the images from my camera into my computer (and into Aperture), I can see that the pixel dimensions for my RAW images are 3648x2736 for portrait (and vice versa for landscape).
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Excellent questions ... that cover a lot of ground.
3648 / 2736 = 1.333333333. The aspect ration is 4:3.
Are you printing from Aperture or sending a file out to be printed? If printing from Aperture, all you need to do is create a Version that is ready to print, and then print it. Printing from Aperture is an export-and-print operation -- there is no need to export the file and save it.
(This is worth understanding. In Aperture, you make Images that are ready to be exported (or printed), but you don't create files (or prints) until you need them.)
The aspect ratio has no units -- it is just a ratio. It describes not the size of a rectangle, but the ratio of the sides of a rectangle. 4:3, 8:6, 1.33:1 are all identical aspect ratios.
Once you have set the aspect ratio, you can set the size (and position) of your rectangular crop by dragging the crop box handles or the crop box itself.
Generally speaking, you will want at least 150 pixels for each inch to be printed, and don't need more than 300. 150 ppi is a slightly impracticable minimum -- you will likely want to use some sophisticated up-rezing to get a stellar print. 200-250 ppi is enough. 300 ppi is plenty. All of this is based on norms of printers, ink, papers, and display (distance, lighting) that may or may not fit your needs.
For a 16" x 20" print that looks good at arm's length 3,200 x 4,000 pixels should suffice.
Aperture includes soft-proofing. You select a profile of the printer, paper, and the printing settings, and Aperture will apply this to your Image and show you what should be a match. Soft-proofing is complicated. At a minimum, you will need a high-quality monitor and hardware calibration.
The User Manual covers much of this in detail particular to Aperture, including a section on Proofing. Well worth reading.
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From: Julie Muth[SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, August 18, 1997 9:39 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Getting ready for production
We'll be deploying our first application into production in the near
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