There are PLENTY of reasons to flatten artwork in my line of work before I send it to anyone. I know you're trying to be helpful here, but your just come off as a condescending. You can also digitally sign your PDF, so if anybody tries to edit it, the signature will be broken and you have proof your design was altered. I forgot to mention you can add security to your PDF to prevent editing, although it's not too hard to get around it. psd files can occasionally cause issues, particularly when spot colors are involved, but addressing these specific issues is a better solution than resorting to jpegs, which are less desirable, for many reasons, than a properly saved PDF, in my opinion.Īs for the incorrect size issue, I'm going to guess it has something to do with the creation of a "screen preview" applied to jpegs for quicker viewing, which somehow changes the apparent size? There is rarely any need to flatten the effects. You should not be seeing any issues with type that has not been outlined. The PDF would need to be viewed in Acrobat or Reader (with the overprint preview preference set to Always).Īny other PDF viewer may not be able to accurately display the PDF. There should be no issues saving a PDF from Illustrator using the Illustrator default settings. Exporting a PDF directly from Illustrator means the person can drag it back into Illustrator and move elements. These are just a few of the reasons I flatten artwork before exporting it to a PDF, but besides all this it's more important that the receiver cannot altered the received artwork. ai file often giving it a hard black outline on clipped images with transparent backgrounds. There are also issues with how it visually represents placed. Applied effects such as drop shadows, blurs, gradient maps can also appear oddly or glitched if not flatten first. Live type (type that has not been expanded) often visually varies in character width making letters look inconsistent. There are numerous issues with exporting PDFs from illustrator files. tiff work around, though I'm not sure how helpful this is seeing as. This has become an issues with even releasing files to printers that only do CMKY process! This makes printing the PDF a huge problem because it tells the person it's too large for a standard printer. The issue with the Jpeg not only showing up as the wrong size it's that the reader believes it to be that size.
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