
Creating PDF Documents
To create a PDF document representing the current state of a PDFClerk document (i.e. as it is currently being displayed) you have two choices:
- Choose an option from the "Export to PDF…" submenu. Documents created through these functions will have their document title and author properties set to the values in the the corresponding fields of the Info tab in the Document Settings dialog, and they will have their PDF display boxes sized according to the rules defined by the imposition template that is active at the time of export, or directly from the source page if no imposition is active. In this last case some display boxes may not be present, or may be altered if the active display box at the time of export is the crop box, and no display boxes will make it into the generated document if the active display box is the bleed, trim or art box.
- Single File: Save all pages into one file.
- Explode: Create a separate PDF document for each page or for each range of pages. If more than one of the files to be created has the same name as a file already present at the destination directory, only one warning will be presented asking if you wish to cancel or overwrite an existing file. If you choose to overwrite, all existing files will be overwritten.
- Split into Even/Odd Pages: Two PDF documents will be created, one with all the even pages, one with all the odd pages. If both of the files to be created have the same name as files already present at the destination directory only one warning will be presented asking if you wish to cancel or overwrite an existing file. If you choose to overwrite, both existing files will be overwritten.
- Export Selection…: Save only the pages selected in the page list into one file.
- Bring up the Print dialog and from the PDF menu (accessed by clicking the "PDF" button in the lower-left corner of the dialog) choose "Save as PDF" (or "Save as PDF-X" as appropriate) and then proceed to name and save the file.
The pages (or sheets in PDFClerk terminology) in the document will be saved to the PDF file using the document's current settings, including imposition mode, margins, marks, etc., creating a PDF file that will look and print exactly as it is displayed in your PDFClerk document at the time of printing, but it will not retain internal information like document title, author or display sizes, outlines, hyperlinks, etc.