SO VERY HELPFUL! I recently took on a new project for a client that required me to reach out to a printing company and for the life of me, I could not get my files formatted correctly. It has been a long and drawn out learning experience. But I am so happy to have found you because I learned a better method for saving my .pdf files high quality print jobs.

Excellent tutorial. Not only do you explain the how but you explain the WHY!!! I am the type who needs to understand why we are selecting certain boxes versus not. Thanks for taking the time to do that.

you’ve taught me in 14 minutes what professors and associates couldn’t teach me in 4 years in university, Thank you so much!

Amazing work 👏 🙌 👌 . Thank you so much for all your support to designers.

Thank so much you gave a through all tutorial! You saved me so much headache from trying to find the professional way to send things for print.

This was very helpful and I'm glad that you showed the detailed steps. It helps to understand what is going on in the background if you use the automated way. I created a small invitation for my library and I think that this might have helped my design print better. Because they are a non-profit, this had to be printed on their laser jet and I ran into all kinds of problems, like the drop shadow that was subtle on the screen (and printed fine on my ink jet printer) became really dark. I used a PDF file and then I needed to also save it so that it could be an image used in an email. It was a challenge for me as the jpg file included an extra border that was not in my file. UGH! I define my Illustrator skills as knows enough to be dangerous. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge.

I paused as you went along and did the steps myself and that helped a TON.

This was amazing!! I needed something specific to the point while other videos didn't show the file packaging part (which was what I was missing my crop marks were all over the place) and they just prattled to make a lengthy video. God Bless You!

By far one of the most helpful videos. Thank you !!

I've learned new: Package option Thank you very much for sharing a Trix.

Thank you so much Erin, this is very helpful and detailed.

I've been using Illustrator for years and never knew about the Package option haha. I used to collect all the needed files manually into a folder. Thanks so much!

Thanks much, Erin, very helpful reminders and info.

Thank you so much Erin, it's helpful really.

Thank you for this great detailed tutorial

Thank you! Super helpful.

Thanks for the tutorial. This is very helpful! The steps are explained clearly and is easy to follow. :)

Thank you for your help. Hello from WI :)

oh my goodness this was so helpful. I'll be subscribing to you now!

Such a great tutorial! Learned a lot :)) thank you Erin G

You did a great job explaining everything in such detail. Now I will know what is happening when prepress is upset that a customer didn’t outline the fonts. But, this is exactly the type of information I want to learn, verses the designing of art aspect. For example, now I want to know why I need to have an image flattened when sending verses me learning how to make crazy shapes.

Really helpful, thanks Erin.

This was very helpful Erin thank you so much for making it easy to understand.

Thank you for step by step tutorial. Keep up the good work 👍

Love your tutorials, so clear. Thank you for your help.

Great tutorial, I recommend watching on X2 playback speed for maximum efficiency!

Thank you for this great video!

Excellent work!

this was just what i needed thanks a million and keep up the brilliant work!

Thank you for your informative tutorial.

Thanks for this, Erin--very helpful!

Thanks for your helpful Information.

Very helpful. Thanks for showing the steps using an older version (as I am using). Not many take the time for us older versions ;)

Very helpful. Thank you very much.

Good tutorials and nice voice, so clear.

thanks alot Erin you really solved my bigger problem

WOW! Thank you so much!

Thank you so much, I needed this video.

Thanks for the video. My Acrobat a few years ago start to malfunction, I change to sumatra pdf (yelow logo), it is really fast and as to use. Hope it works! Cheers from Mexico.

Thank you so much, this was realy very very helpful, greetings from Morocco, Peace

Very Helpful

really really very good for me lot of thanks

Very Useful Thanks

I am from PAKISTAN your video 👍👌👍👌👍👌👍👌👍👌👍 is very helpful thanks

Very very useful..that you 😊

Amazing work so Thank you so much

Great video

I am Jabir from India , Thanks for uploading this video Its very useful

This is so helpful

Thank you Very much very help full

Thanks for the tips . :)

Thanks a lot for this video

Hi, Erin! Thanks for tutorial :) Can you say, should we convert text to curves before making pdf file? Thanks:)

Thanks for everything

Thank you for this video .. very helpful v usefull ... like it

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thank you so much ❤️

Thank You Lady! 😍

Thank you!

Hi Erin, what about the color profile? Which one did you use? They are the same for both images and vectors?

Thanks a lot.

Thank you so much.

Thanks a lot

Thank You

thank you ❤️

brilliant thank you so much. And absolutely love your accent :)

Thank You!

Hey Erin. That tutorial is super helpful. Only question though. For the first option is it risky to send the source file to the printing firm/company whatever? And if Yes how can we prevent this and have some kind of protection? Thanks in advance!

thank you so much mam

Thank you very much

Hi all! If I have for example a shape with a stroke, should I also expand appearance? Or is it good to go as it is?

Excellent video Erin. One question - when I go to print the pdf, my pdf comes up blank? Unsure why this is happening?

thank u so much sister

love youre all tutorial, straight to the poin!

Hi, if u unchecked the "preserve illustrator editing capabilities" it will be able to change it or steal it at the print office! I have a problem when I checked this option and i open the file again i suppose to get just a pic not layers! But i get layers .. something is saperated from the hole logo!! How can i solve this problem..

thank you so much

Hello Erin, Thank You so very much, it helped me allot to understand how to create a good Print ready PDF file. " computer not responding " Aahhh it's all part of the process i get that as well. LOL Great Job.

Hey how do I go about designing a large format graphic for a business booth. It would be like 91 in by 91 in for the main part. The printing company said they need a vector file how would I go about designing a file containing text an images that would be rescalable without loss? Would I follow this same video or how do I go about starting the design in illustrator?

Thank you ❤️👍

What steps do I complete for my digital art for sale on etsy? Please let me know.

Simple, Clear and direct...jpg not the way😩...thanks for offering me a better presentation😃👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

I did follow u finish and then print? but i want to know about corner of paper do have it?

do you create outlines for fonts before doing package .. ? does t send the right fonts to printer or do we need to send fonts to printer ? thanks

Can you give me little advice, i need to print coloring book. I have illustrator file. A4 size. I have one by one page. Not side by side.(left and right) i have 30 pages. So, if i need to create coloring book do i need to reformat it as side by side? Can i print all pages one by one and put all together?

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Thanks

really your work is good ore then your voice jejeje awesome......

Very helpful. I am a graphic design student. Do you offer courses on illustrator, photoshop. Is it the same process in the other apps. Thanks

Thank you for this great tutorial!

Thanks for this video👍🏼 I thought PDF would be the prefered format for print? EDIT// sorry, should have watched the whole video first. With a PDF though i can just ensure fonts are embedded rather than changing to outlines (?)

"Package" Menu Option is grayed out for me...Any ideas on why?

Dated but helpful tutorial. Can anyone comment on why you'd ever do anything but send them a PDF? And if doing so, do you really need to embed the images? As long as text is outlined, I save as PDF and relocate the file all manner of places, download fresh copies, etc. and never have any problems.

its so easy? working with color specially CMYK is little hard. Seperation, overprint etc.

what's the difference between exporting and doing a package ? plea help thanks

If I want to deliver a Print Ready PDF to a client which contains gradient, gradient mesh, and transparency how should I set my PDF file?

Is this needed for t-shirt printing ?

sir how to we export after everything done

good job 2022

i saw many time creater doesnt provied source file , why they do that and , and what mean of source file , that zip file called source file ? plz reply any one here

Incredibly helpful and thorough! Thank you!