Set default PDF export preset
When saving as PDF the preset is always set to Illustrator standard and you have to manually use the drop down menu to choose the standard you need.
Most designers use always the same standard. I work for example in preprint and have to select X1a. It sucks to have to select this for every dingle file dozens of times a day.
Other designers struggle there as well and send us constantly PDFs that are not X1a because of this. They forget about the selection.
To ease up regular work flows it would be very handy to save this setting as a default.
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Bram
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yes please
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Corrie Williams
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Totally agree - come on adobe, listen to your customers - save to .pdf (set smallest size to default) would save me hours a week.
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Marcy
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This has been annoying me too. Seems like it would be such an easy thing to do and it would help users so much!
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Anonymous
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Absolutely! How easy it is forget to output settings to include profiles when you are in a hurry!
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DocSufrad
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Great idea!!! I wish they'd fix the little things like this, rather than the yearly updates that add nothing but the need to update my MacOS on an old machine that can't handle another update.
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Anonymous
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The adobe developer team produce more bugs.
But the program surface now: blink blink.
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Anonymous
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I'm saving 50+ PDF's per day and none are Illustrator default. This would make life super easy.
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Rick Wallace
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Someone on the dev team is really dug in on this one. I had a really busy day yesterday and saved almost 70 pdfs (not including save overs). And now I'm dealing with the program bug that if you do a save-as and change the file name, the next pdf is still the old file name... plus the copy copy copy copy etc if you resave a lot in the same file. Makes me miss Illustrator 1.1 thu 9 when the program did everything it was supposed to do in a sensible manner. I'll have 34 years of ai use this October... man this one twists me up.
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Arthur
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An update today, and still this feature is missing. It has been available in InDesign for years! Adobe, are you listening to your users?
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Lance
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@ Alex, I have noticed the same thing in the last two Illustrator updates. I have actions setup to save PDF's for a particular workflow and they *used* to save with their selected joboptions correctly, but now they're doing what export for screens does (a bug) that just uses the most recently used 'save as' PDF settings, regardless of anything else.
I have to be careful to manually save a pdf with the settings I want and then run my actions.
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Benny
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how is this still not a thing? Make it happen Adobe!
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Alex
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I have a similar issue here. I deal with several PDF, some are in RGB other in CMYK. I created several actions inside Illustrator so I don´t have to repeat the same step requested in the Save As… menu. But today I found that these presets are not fixed to each action. I found these actions use the last PDF modification made. If I have created a particular CMYK PDF by hand and then I try to use my RGB action, it won't work, because it will create a CMYK file even though I have created an RGB preset.
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Bruce Leasure
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The crazy thing is that InDesign has had this capability for years! It shouldn't be that difficult to implement in Illustrator, as well. PLEASE, ADOBE, PLEASE MAKE THIS HAPPEN!!!
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Jess
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Just jumping in to agree. Can't even believe there isn't a way to modify your defaults based on your own preferences.
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Byrone
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Here's another vote for being able to set my own default for exporting PDFs. We all jump through this silly hoop over and over again, day after day.
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Rick Wallace
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Guess I should better attention. I've downloaded the last two pre-release builds and then not installed them. And after the last terrible terrible update to Photoshop I've decided to slow my boat on blind updating. Thanks though Cameron, I'll will use this .ai update.
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Cameron Rennacker
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@Rick Wallace Background filesaving just got released!
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/saving-artwork.html#background_save
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Rick Wallace
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We ALL need to jump into the next prerelease broadcast and flood our TOP 3 NEEDS in the chat stream.. this would probably be #1. Larger artboard #2, and background file saving #3.
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Anonymous
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Adobe ARE you reading suggestions?
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Anonymous
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Wishful thinking everyone. Adobe appears to be a state run company now. It's like fixing roads. This thread started in 2017, haha. Maybe they will use our funds like the OHV funds, to close trails.