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PDF export for web from photoshop

by SiggiT
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Hi everyone. My first post here and am desperately hoping for help.
Thing is, I've got a job from a client to make for their web, a sort of a booklet, catalog thing that has information about their activities and offers. Since I'm not too proficient with InDesign (though I know it's pretty idiot proof) I decided to make it in Photoshop, since I can export into .pdf from there. I'm making a PSD file for each page and I read somewhere that .pdf files can be merged into one (later problem).

I wanted to ask about some technical stuff. I've been using A4 size and I hope that's all good. What bothers me is that the font kinda seems to screw up when I export into .pdf. Currently I'm using Verdana, only 6 points but bolded, since that's the only way the font has been readable so far. I read a thread here about fonts to use and Verdana came up, but there, people were talking about 12-14 points which for me looks way too big. I was wondering if you could give me any pointers. I also don't understand when I export an A4 sized PS file into .pdf why the size seems so off. With the same zoom, the document looks totally different.

I have a reference from a past catalog for the company and there he seems to have space for a whole lot more text than I have. He used a Letter size, but it doesn't seem to be much of a difference.

I've never really worked with .pdf, so any help is appreciated.
Thank you
SiggiT
#export #pdf #photoshop #web
  • Profile picture of the author SiggiT
    oh and what should the resolution be for example? It's at 300 now in my file. Have little idea what that means actually.

    And I know PS isn't the ideal tool for this, so if anyone can help me getting started with InDesign, that would be great. I'm just putting in texts and images, but I may need to import some graphics.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mang0
      Hey, SiggiT.

      You should use Adobe InDesign, it was made especially for things like this. Also I believe the 300 refers to 300 DPI, I think it has to do with the print quality.
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      • Profile picture of the author SiggiT
        yeah, I'm trying to move to InDesign but it's not going too well. I can handle text I suppose, but images for the first thing turn out to be messy when I place them in ID. I've been trying to get a logo in there and it just messes up. I've also been trying to make a vector graphic type of the logo in Illustrator but I'm really a clutch with the Pen tool. I don't know if I'll need to make that or if a large image would suffice.
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        • Profile picture of the author ronc0011
          Photoshop is fine for creating PDFs for the web Resolution should be 72 dpi for use on the web Although I'm not sure if it matters so much for a PDF because it's not really relying on the browser to view the file but instead it's actually using adobe acrobat. If you can get one of the existing PDFs you should be able to open it in Photoshop and then see the resolution and fonts and font size. In other words you should be able to see all the particulars about the file. Photoshop will read or save or open either file format PDF or PSD
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          • Profile picture of the author SiggiT
            ah, I see. I managed to open it and a window opened with that info. It said 300 which is what I have been working with.
            I've been working with InDesign today which clearly seems to handle text better. I had some trouble placing images in there, but they looked better after I changed their resolution to 300 in Photoshop. I suppose I'll be using that but I'll need to make some graphics in 3d or Photoshop like titles and such
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            • Profile picture of the author gineen
              Just a suggestion, but Illustrator is much better fro text than Photoshop.
              Plus no worries about resolution because it's vector
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  • Profile picture of the author SiggiT
    yeah, but I'll probably just be copying text from other documents into InDesign. But I have pretty little proficiency with both InDesign and Illustrator. InDesign seems to be very simple though, at least for what I need.
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