/Adobe-PDF-Profiles-for-Scientific-Publishing

Acrobat Preflight profiles for generating publication-quality PDF files for scientific journals. These files are usually submitted for production.

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Adobe PDF Profiles for Scientific Publishing

This repo contains some profiles I use to generate publication-quality PDF files for scientific journals. These files are usually submitted for production.

Illustrator - PDF Presets

Clean PDF (600 dpi, sRGB)

  • Downsamples all color bitmaps to 600 dpi and monochrome ones to 1200 dpi
  • Converts the color space to sRGB and embeds the color profile
  • Due to Illustrator's limitations, you must manually uncheck "Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities" on every save to remove Illustrator-specific information (such as layers)

Acrobat - Preflight Profiles

Journal Figure [PDF_X-1a, FOGRA39, 600 dpi]

  • Downsamples all bitmaps to 600 dpi
  • Targets FOGRA39 CMYK and claims PDF/X-1a standard
  • Removes all non-standard markups (including Illustrator-specific information)