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  1. Set default PDF export preset

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    80 comments  ·  Illustrator (Desktop) Feature Requests » File Save, Import and Export  ·  Admin →
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    It appears there isn't any answer from Adobe itself, yet. Until it comes, below method might work for some of you.

    You may create an action and assign a shortcut to it. The action may simply be a save as action, which will save the document to a specific folder with the name of the original document (assuming your work would already be saved as .ai copy). Trick here is, you won't interrupt the action to name the document. Therefore the action will go ahead and create a pdf copy of your file, with the same name of .ai copy of it, with the pdf presetting that you save the action with, to the specified folder (this folder will always be the same). You later go to the folder and pick up your files and move it to the necessary folder. I do this when converting multiple files to pdf with the same presetting. With one shortcut, the pdf is done! It's just not in the folder I want it to be, but it's easier to move them later than saving them manually.
    There is a glitch with this method, though. For some big and complicated artworks, i have experienced some file corruptions which had been fixed after i manually pdf saved them.
    Hope this helps to some of you. Cheers!

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