1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,681 [MUSIC] 2 00:00:04,681 --> 00:00:09,160 In this video we will save out our illustrator file as a PDF. 3 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:12,770 This is a great way to deliver your designs to your clients. 4 00:00:12,770 --> 00:00:18,770 PDF's work on almost any computer and generally have a much smaller file size. 5 00:00:18,770 --> 00:00:22,830 And for our purposes, I have deleted the guide layer already. 6 00:00:22,830 --> 00:00:24,420 You can see here in my layers panel. 7 00:00:24,420 --> 00:00:27,620 Just to make sure that none of that is going to appear 8 00:00:27,620 --> 00:00:30,380 in this final PDF I'm creating. 9 00:00:30,380 --> 00:00:34,038 To save as a PDF, we'll go to File, 10 00:00:34,038 --> 00:00:38,640 Save As, I'll be saving it as my Finished Mock Up. 11 00:00:39,890 --> 00:00:40,620 On my desktop. 12 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:45,000 For the format, we have some different choices. 13 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:46,980 You wanna choose Adobe PDF. 14 00:00:48,770 --> 00:00:52,180 And we have a choice to do all or a range, so 15 00:00:52,180 --> 00:00:55,460 we could just do our mobile or desktop art board if we wanted. 16 00:00:55,460 --> 00:00:58,300 But in this case we do wanna do both, so I'm gonna hit all. 17 00:00:58,300 --> 00:00:59,820 And then I'll hit save. 18 00:01:00,820 --> 00:01:05,250 And this brings up our Save Adobe PDF dialog box and 19 00:01:05,250 --> 00:01:08,760 within this, you can see that we do have other options. 20 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:12,610 For our purposes, I'm going to do something 21 00:01:12,610 --> 00:01:16,930 to really reduce our file size, but it doesn't take a lot of extra work. 22 00:01:16,930 --> 00:01:21,240 So, here at the top, under Options, and I'm going to just stick with this 23 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:24,560 illustrator default for my Adobe PDF preset. 24 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:29,420 And then here in our options dialogue box let's uncheck 25 00:01:29,420 --> 00:01:32,000 Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities. 26 00:01:33,030 --> 00:01:38,050 Basically with this check it leaves all of your layers in illustrator so 27 00:01:38,050 --> 00:01:42,850 that you can still edit it, much like you would a regular Adobe Illustrator file. 28 00:01:42,850 --> 00:01:47,200 So by unchecking this, it flattens it all for you, and that's pretty much it. 29 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:47,930 It's pretty simple. 30 00:01:47,930 --> 00:01:53,590 So save PDF, and it's like, are you sure that you want to lose that? 31 00:01:53,590 --> 00:01:55,190 I'm like, yep. 32 00:01:55,190 --> 00:01:56,310 So let's go check it out. 33 00:01:56,310 --> 00:02:01,100 I'm gonna hop over to my Finder, and here it is. 34 00:02:01,100 --> 00:02:03,910 It's 4 MB, and open it up. 35 00:02:03,910 --> 00:02:04,950 It's two pages. 36 00:02:04,950 --> 00:02:08,580 You can see we have really nice quality, which is awesome. 37 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:15,490 And as I scroll down the first page is my mobile and the second page is my web. 38 00:02:15,490 --> 00:02:16,630 I'll zoom out a little bit. 39 00:02:16,630 --> 00:02:17,788 So you guys can see. 40 00:02:17,788 --> 00:02:21,269 So it's great. 41 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:25,830 And now I could just send this over to my client by email, 42 00:02:25,830 --> 00:02:29,670 or Dropbox, and it's really simple for them to get to.