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April 2010

Best practices for creating PDF files

Question of the day:  My PDF file is showing up with different colors and fonts when I send it in an email for review. What can I do?

Colors and PDF

Why don¡¯t my colors always match from computer to computer or when they are printed? How can I choose colors to get the best match for the multiple purposes required?


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There are a variety of color models that are used to show colors. No computer monitor or printer can create all the color variations that are visible to the human eye. Some color models are device-independent and some are device-dependent (RGB for monitors, CMYK for printing, etc). Artificial color has two other issues:

1) completeness (see gamut image above) and
2) transformation (color plane is infinite but colors are typically 24 bit integers so conversions are approximate).

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Fonts and PDF

Fonts come in many different shapes and sizes. Serif, san serif, decorative, minimalist ? you want to ensure that the fonts you use in your document show up
at the other end. So why does your customer not see the font that you used in the source document and that shows in the PDF file on your computer?

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