PDF Guidelines

Text (only applicable for digital born files):

• All text and fonts should be fully embedded in the PDFs;
• Text should not be flattened, rasterized or paths;
• All text will be extracted as-is from the PDFs. If Glyphs or fonts are used that change the look and output of a character, the character will be extracted as is. This causes some small-caps fonts to be rendered as lower-case for example. Ensure that the characters used are upper-case in these instances, so the extracted text will be upper-case as well.
  
  

Images Text (only applicable for digital born files):

• Flattening of images and/or layers should be avoided, so images can be extracted as separate items;
• Down-sampling should be avoided where possible. For file size reasons, some down-sampling is preferred. Ensuring a crisp look at max 2400px width or height for large images is the goal;
• 300DPI+ images are preferred as long as the size of the feed does not exceed ~300MB. If the feed exceeds 300MB in size, please do down-sample the images to around 150DPI and/ or use better compression.

PDF:

• No security should be used;
• Compression is fine;
• All pages should be single-page;
• All pages should be in the correct order;
• Trim boxes should always be set correctly to display only the relevant page information with no bleed or overlap with the opposite page of the spread.