Lightroom PDF - acceptable to a commercial printer?

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Has anyone ever tried to get a PDF that's been created in Lightroom, printed at a commercial printer? Obviously it's easy to get the book printed at Blurb but they're just so expensive. Plus I don't know how to use InDesign to create it again from scratch.

I'll be approaching some printers anyway soon, but I thought I'd canvas opinion here first anyway.
 
A printer would need it in CMYK colours instead of RGB. And any raster content to have an adequate DPI.
 
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Acrobat Pro could tell you the DPI if there was raster content. But if you don't have that, then you can open, examine and edit it in Inkscape. Inkscape is open source and doesn't cost anything.
Does the PDF contain pictures or other bitmap type content?
 
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ianp5a said:
Acrobat Pro could tell you the DPI if there was raster content. But if you don't have that, then you can open, examine and edit it in Inkscape. Inkscape is open source and doesn't cost anything.
Does the PDF contain pictures or other bitmap type content?
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It's more or less all pictures. Thanks for the tip on Inkscape - I'll check it out when I get home from work.
 
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