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: Customer wants a Layered PDF? I recently designed the layout on an album cover. Upon sending the files for print, they said that they have a problem "separating the template from the artwork"

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I recently designed the layout on an album cover. Upon sending the files for print, they said that they have a problem "separating the template from the artwork" (the label provided a template to use for the layout) and thus requested a "layered PDF". I was wondering what is it? I already had sent them both a PSD file and a PDF file.

I did notice that in the save as window there is a checkbox for "Layered" upon choosing PDF, but it's checked by default, so all PDFs should be "layered" automatically by default? Assuming that's what they meant.

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@Alves566

You both meant two separate things.

Layers in photoshop saving options means that the file is not flatten (pdf style, those layers are very different from your workfile stack). You can reopen it in Ps and it will have exactly the same layers as pds file.

What they mean is "Acrobat layers", option available in InDesign when exporting pdf file. It export pdf with layers and give the ability to turn their visibility on and off in Acrobat (also few other options).

What you could do (in Photoshop) is to move template to alpha channel, set it to spot color and then it could be turned off in preflight. And it still could get used as guide for whatever machine works it's need to be used.

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@Michele215

First of all, you do not need to send to print something that does not need to be printed. The "template" could mean that you are sending guidelines or grids that you used but does not form part of the artwork, so do not send it in the pdf.

If you do need a mark it should be either in a crop mark or in a separated file (or page) with the respective crop marks to align them.

One option is that you send them the layered .AI file with the fonts converted to paths.



P.S. You should NOT use Photoshop to do your finished design. Use only to do the art, the image, and add the texts in Illustrator, or Corel, or Indesign.

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