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Load Adobe PDF presets



New PDF presets (.joboptions files) that you create are stored in the Settings folder in the following locations:

Windows XP
Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Adobe\Adobe PDF (Windows)

Windows Vista
Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\InDesign\Adobe PDF

Mac OS
[username]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PDF (Mac OS)

These presets automatically appear in the Adobe PDF Presets menu.

Supplementary InDesign PDF presets are installed in the Adobe PDF\Extras folder. Use your system search utility to locate additional .joboptions files. You may also receive custom PDF presets from service providers and colleagues. For these presets to be listed in the Adobe PDF Presets menu, they must be moved to the Settings folder either manually or by using the Load command.

Load PDF presets

The Load command is useful if you want to load PDF presets that someone sent you, or to load PDF presets from InDesign CS2.

  1. Choose File > Adobe PDF Presets > Define.
  2. Click Load and select the .joboptions file you want to load.

The .joboptions file is copied to the Settings folder where new PDF presets are stored.

To make a .joboptions file available in the Adobe PDF Presets menu, you can also drag it to the Settings folder where your PDF presets are stored.

Convert PDF presets from InDesign CS

InDesign CS and earlier export PDF presets with .pdfs extensions, while InDesign CS2 and later export PDF presets with .joboptions extensions. Importing a PDFS file converts it to a .joboptions file, and overrides settings as necessary. For example, if Monitor RGB was selected as the destination profile in the Output area in InDesign CS, it is automatically changed to Document RGB in InDesign CS4.

  1. Choose File > Adobe PDF Presets > Define.
  2. Click Load.
  3. Choose Previous-version PDF Settings Files (.pdfs) from the Files Of Type menu (Windows) or All Files from the Enable menu (Macintosh).
  4. Double-click the file you want to convert.

The file becomes selected in the list of Adobe PDF presets.