PDF has become the industry standard way of transferring documents of all types from one person to another, ensuring exact WYSIWYG fidelity. Xara Xtreme Pro offers class-leading PDF support including these features: • Choice of PDF version from version 1.3 through to version 1.7, as well as PDF/X-1a 2001, x-1a 2003, X3-2002, and X-3 2003 standards. • Full support for vector transparency (PDF version 1.4 or later) • Font embedding and font subsetting options • Export any selected page range • Optional down-sampling of large bitmaps (reduces the size of PDFs for designs containing large photos) • Full control over bitmap embedding options and compression (native, Flate, JPEG) • Full control over bitmap transparency flattening, bitmap effect rasterization, to any required resolution and compression type • Embedding of native JPG files for lossless JPEG transfer • Support for Adobe Reader Layers. For PDF 1.5 and above you can now output and control Xtreme's layer visibility in Adobe Reader • File embedding. You can embed .xar files into your PDF and launch them from Adobe Reader • Full pre-press PDF/X support including: • Embedding page crop and printer's marks • ICC color profiles, including all the common paper stock options (e.g. US Web coated, ISO, etc) • Embedding of custom ICC profiles • Document encryption, with full control over document permissions: • Password protect any PDF file, with 40 or 128-bit encryption • Control over exact permissions, e.g. allow / disallow printing or commenting or text copying or extraction. • Spot color support Thankfully for those that do not require such full control over PDF features, Xtreme Pro provides a simple choice of 4 typical PDF profiles for the novice user: Draft, Email, High Quality and Commercial Printing, as well as the option for custom settings.