There’s a lot of prep work to be done before you can get your print job off the ground.

By Jean-Marie Hershey

The pitfalls involved in modifying PDF files are numerous and dangerous, Rosen adds. “To do what appears to be a simple correction from RGB to CMYK may produce a color change that would otherwise be fine if done on the native file. PDF was meant to be a final representation of what to print and how to print—not a file that should be edited, changed, and manipulated.”