These are additional notes on Freehand specific file preparations.

1.0 General Notes

• If your document only contains CMYK colours and images, with no transparency or effects then you can supply a PDF file created by printing to Acrobat on the [Press Quality] Setting. (See Note 4.0 below)
• We can accept files from Freehand MX
• Supply a native Freehand MX file with images linked
• Convert all fonts to paths

2.0 Colour Matching for fabric printing

If you require colour matching to Pantone Colours on fabric then pease supply the original Freehand file. For best result we may need to be able to change the colours in the file.

3.0 Transparency

Please supply the original file and allow us to flatten the file.

4.0 Creating a PDF file from Freehand

If your document only contains CMYK colours and images, with no transparency or effects then you can supply a PDF file. Do not export the PDF from Freehand or use any other PDF creation software other than Adobe Acrobat. The only way to guarantee that a PDF file will print correctly is to Print your document though the Adobe Acrobat Printer Driver. If you do not have Acrobat then we recommend supplying the original file.

Use the [Press Quality] job options when creating the PDF file.To ensure that images do not get down sampled to a lower resolution we recommend changing the [Press Quality] job options and disable image down sampling. This may make the PDF file larger but at least it will eliminate the change of loosing image quality for scaled artwork.