How do I get a high resolution pdf version of my pages document?

Thanks!

this helped me tremendously.

for me it was simple and quick.

all I had to do was hit print, select save as PDF, and change the DPI to 300

it's a magazine ad that I used to do in InDesign

things were much simpler then... ha

don't have access to the adobe products right now

making due with Pages

but, learning it can do a great deal

thanks for the info

...and how did you "change the DPI to 300" (assuming you are still in Pages software?)

this is really weird.

In Apple Pages, when I went to - save as PDF, there was a pull down menu that allowed me to choose the DPI.

I chose 300 DPI, saved and sent the file

the person I sent the file to said it was only 150 DPI

I went to do it again, and that little pull down menu is gone

I cannot figure out how to change the DPI

I ended up sending them the original pieces and letting them recreate the ad, using a lower res jpeg as a template

if anyone knows what happened here, I'd really like to know

just FYI

since Pages only allows me to export as a PDF

I opened the PDF in Preview and saved as a jpeg

Here is a more detailed procedure than what I wrote earlier. It was devised before Save as … disappeared and then returned, so anyone using Lion or Mountain Lion will have to "translate."

To achieve 300 dpi resolution in drop shadows, open the ColorSync utility Filters and duplicate the Create Generic PDFX-3 Document filter. In the copy, click on the arrow to the left to open the drop-down. Then click on the next arrow, Create PDF/X-3 Document. Enter 300 in each of the boxes labeled Resolution. Save it with a new name.

When you want a 300 resolution PDF, go Print > PDF > Open in Preview > Save as… > Quartz > New Name filter > Save. (Do not use Export.)

Using this filter will give you 300 dpi resolution in drop shadows and other transparencies.

Walt

I tried these instructions

I had a hard time changing the name of the new PDF/X-3 file

it just duplicated with the word copy on the end

I typed in a new name, but it wouldn't stick

I output a PDF and then saved it as a jpeg

the jpeg is still 150 dpi

Then just make a note that the "Copy" is the 300 ppi version. Why make life complicated?

Walt

if naming were the only problem that would be fine

you failed to note that the final result was still 150 DPI

I need 300 DPI

I used the new one labeled copy

I would like to give it a better name

but, mostly, I'd like it to work

What was the PPI of the original document? This change affects only the transparency.

I'm looking for a way to make a 300DPI document.

why is that so hard?

If you want 300 ppi resolution of your (bitmap) images, they must be 300 when you insert them. For the vector parts, resolution is immaterial.

That's not hard.

so, how do you output a 300 DPI PDF from Pages?

Walt wrote:

> If you want 300 ppi resolution of your (bitmap) images, they must be 300 when you insert them. For the vector parts, resolution is immaterial. That's not hard.

Actually, it is.

1. To check the resolution of a TIFF or JPEG file (one image, one file), start Apple Preview and select Tools > Get Info. This will show the resolution, the colourant format (RGB, CMY, CMYK ...), the colourimetry specification (either unspecified deviceColor or specified by ICC source profile).

2. To check the resolution of a PDF or EPS file (one or more images and other objects, one file), there is no human interface in Mac OS X that lets you look at the object-oriented metainformation. You have to have third party software, and you have to have a working knowledge of the Adobe imaging architecture.

As I wrote above in this thread, it is not correct that the ColorSync Utility will always render transparency resolution at 72dpi. Transparency was introduced in Mac OS 7.5 for QuickDraw GX in 1994 and reintroduced in Mac OS X for Quartz in 2000, so it's nothing new in the screen imaging system.

However, getting from the programming operators for resolution-independent transparency in the screen imaging system to the resolution-dependency of a RIP using the Adobe imaging architecture has been a problem for eighteen years, which is a little short of the time I've spent writing in this neck of the IT woods.

PDF/X-4 supports live transparency (and layers), but a test in 2012 suggested that there is still trouble sorting out how live transparency should be rendered. PDF/X-3 does not support live transparency: you have to pre-render to the resolution of the intended printing condition (which you have to know, of course).

Finally, if you choose the PDF/X filter in the ColorSync Utility, you are informing the system that you want to save a ColorWorld complete with the ICC profile for the intended printing condition. Here you have to know what that profile is, which may or may not be the default profile offered by the default filter.

The current default profile came about after an argument between the ColorSync Users List and ColorSync engineering. On the List, we wanted a change from a default profile for the Apple Color LaserWriter to a default profile for a genuinely common printing condition.

Apple engineering then chose US SWOP as the common printing condition to which new drawing in CMYK mode as well as unmarked/untagged drawing in CMYK and drawing in CMYK mode for PDF/X would conform. However, what you buy when you buy print is by and large gamut, so if you are buying print, check if the gamut you are buying is bigger than the gamut of US SWOP, because if you send the printer PDF/X with US SWOP as OutputIntent, you have declared that you want to reduce the gamut to US SWOP regardless of the gamut the printer is offering you.

It's like choosing to write in 7-bit US ASCII = the Basic Latin Block of ISO-IEC 10646. The size of the input writing space determines what you can send, irrespective of the size of the reference/connection space and the size of the receiving/output space. You can't write Russian, because Cyrillic is far out of gamut for US ASCII. This is simple set theory, and the gamut comparison in the ColorSync Utility can be used to check the size of the writing/working space relative to the size of the space for which you select a receiving/output profile in the ColorSync Utility.

Hope this helps,

Henrik

If you place a 300 dpi image in Pages, it will be output at 300 dpi (as long as there are no shadows or transparency overlapping vector objects).

If you are getting 150 dpi, that's because you put a 150 dpi image into your document.

(And, Henrik, that really isn't hard.)

this is really a simple question that you are complicating beyond belief.

if I create a page in PAGES and output that page as a PDF, can that PDF be 300 DPI?

I am not putting an image in. I am creating a document and exporting as a PDF

then opening in Preview and saving as a JPEG

this is a simple process to get a hi res JPEG image to the printer

why is that so complicated?