Help needed making PDFs from photoshop CS2, A1 size

ArmyofHarmony · 4 Dec 2006 at 01:41

Hey,

Made a poster, size A1 in photoshop CS2.

When I save as PDF, the size seems to shrink, because "100%" in adobe reader appears to be much smaller than the A1 size its meant to be.

Any ideas whats going on?

meghatronic · 4 Dec 2006 at 01:50

ArmyofHarmony said:
Hey,

Made a poster, size A1 in photoshop CS2.

When I save as PDF, the size seems to shrink, because "100%" in adobe reader appears to be much smaller than the A1 size its meant to be.

Any ideas whats going on?

You need to define A1 as custom paper type with measurements etc...

ArmyofHarmony · 4 Dec 2006 at 02:12

I have already defined the size manually... i've now tried changing the dpi to 300, but the filesize went up to 2gig and i got a warning :/

damn, i need this sorted by morning

meghatronic · 4 Dec 2006 at 02:54

Hmmm... i've done it for A0 so I know it can be done.

Can't check at the moment as desktop has died and laptop has vista on with no adobe stuf...

I'm sure you need to defien a customer paper size (not within documet)... i.e. in printer preferences somewhere when ou come to 'print'.

Sorry I can't be anymomre help

ArmyofHarmony · 4 Dec 2006 at 10:25

I changed the dpi to 300, and left it to save overnight (it was taking ages)

seemed to work as a 50meg pdf... hmm

ill find out when i go to the printers!

Sherbs · 4 Dec 2006 at 17:56

A0 is 841mm × 1189mm @ 300dpi that should be 9933px x 14043px.

Although most presses print at around 170dpi.

Seem ok? Also, an eps file would probably be fine depending on printers.

I am a Digital Press Technicain btw