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High quality (300 DPI, larger PDF files)
The high quality setting includes options for rendering designs as PDF documents where
full fidelity is required at high resolution. This if most suitable for printing on inkjet printers
or viewing at high zoom. The following are the key settings:
• PDF 1.5.
• Fonts are embedded, and subsetted (meaning only those characters used are
embedded as fonts).
• All bitmaps and photos are passed through untouched, unless they are more than 300
dpi in which case they are sampled down to be 300 dpi but retain their existing type
(they are not all converted to JPG).

Commercial printing (PDF/X, 300 DPI images)
This setting specifies the options required for generating PDF/X documents that will be
submitted to a print company. The following are the key settings used:
• PDF version 1.3 (as required by PDF/X).
• Files are conformant to PDF/X-1a: 2001 (ISO standard 15930-1).
• Fonts are embedded and subsetted.
• Bitmaps are converted to CMYK in native (uncompressed) format according the ICC
Color Profile "US Web Coated SWOP".
• Bitmaps are limited to 300 dpi (high res bitmaps are sampled down).
• Crop and printer’s marks are included if these are switched on in the PRINT OPTIONS
dialog in Xara Designer Pro X.

Customizing PDF export using advanced options
If you select the ADVANCED OPTIONS button you can customize any of the above presets.
Once you have altered any of the preset values, the next time you export a PDF it
remembers the last settings, and the CUSTOM option will be shown. The following section
provides an overview of this feature.

While the four presets included in the PDF Export Filter will cover most typical scenarios
for generating PDF output, situations may arise when greater control is required in order
to specify the properties of the resulting document.
To customize the output filter settings:

1. Select the preset that is closest to the desired type of PDF.
2. Click ADVANCED OPTIONS....
3. Modify the desired filter settings.
4. Click EXPORT to generate the PDF document.

The modified settings will automatically be stored under the CUSTOM option for use from
that point on.
When the ADVANCED OPTIONS button is clicked, the PDF Export Filter options appear in a
separate dialog box grouped within the following categories: General, Objects,
Document, Layers, Pre-Press (only Xara Designer Pro) and Security.