X-4:2008 if you're sending it to a client.Use High-Quality Print if you're sending it to the printer in your bathroom.Use Press Quality if you're sending it to a commercial printer.X-1a:2001 if you're sending it to Moo, Sticker Mule, or a printer that cares about file size.This may not be what computer scientists care about or what your printer will necessarily want, so take it with a grain of salt. Scroll down if you just care about my findings and not the journey I took to get there.įor me, I hold three big things super important. While I'm not overly technical in this article, I know a lot of people want to get to the meat and potatoes. I'll save you a ton of research and time. Turns out, there really isn't a lot of easily digestible information on the internet.Īpparently, people don't find PDF export standards sexy enough to write about.
I start every semester off with the same lengthy soapbox about how hard drives and pixels work, and blah blah blah. Then there are those who never wade deeper than regurgitating Instagram trends and putting random borders around their work because they just "thought it looked empty without it". That being, the most successful are those who have a deep comprehension and command of visual language. Understanding the inner-workings of the tools and methodologies we use is the natural Great Filter of the design industry. I've been both professionally using AND teaching x-1a:2001 as a standard for almost a decade and I have no idea why, what it means, and if it's still even relevant.ĭesign Research is a fundamental principle that I try to instill into my students. As I was driving home I had a realization. I rambled off some passed-down knowledge of long-forgotten origin that a design professor from a different life must have maybe told me: PDF/X-1a:2001. One of my students asked me what the proper way of exporting to PDF from Illustrator was. Today after critique in my Typography II class I asked my students to turn in PDF deliverables.
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