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InDesign CS4 Master PDF exports shows you how to create PDFs for every occasion. Adobe instructor Tony Harmer shows you the steps involved in selecting the correct settings, checking fonts and images and, finally, exporting the completed file ready to be viewed by the world.
InDesign CS4 Master PDF exports shows you how to create PDFs for every occasion. Adobe instructor Tony Harmer shows you the steps involved in selecting the correct settings, checking fonts and images and, finally, exporting the completed file ready to be viewed by the world.
InDesign CS4 Master PDF exports shows you how to create PDFs for every occasion. Adobe instructor Tony Harmer shows you the steps involved in selecting the correct settings, checking fonts and images and, finally, exporting the completed file ready to be viewed by the world.
good idea to switch to InDesign CS4s Printing and Proong workspace. Not only does this ensure that the Preight panel is handy, but you might also want to use the Separations and Flattener previews to check your work. 04 If you think its at all likely that youll use an older PDF standard, then its good practice to put any vector art, text or objects with transparency in a layer above any that contain bitmap images. In fact, its probably best to do this anyway, if you can. 01 Before you make your PDF, there are a few things you need to do. First, remove any unused colours from your document the Swatches Panel menu has a Select All Unused command, which you can follow by clicking the Trash icon in the same panel. If youve imported anything from Microsoft Word, its also worth editing that or replacing its colours with colours from InDesign. 03 Ensure fonts in your document are present and can be embedded. If youre using fonts from a reliable vendor then this shouldnt be an issue missing fonts and those that cant be embedded are picked up by the default Basic preight prole in InDesign CS4, so you should know if theres a problem. InDesign CS4 Master PDF exports Adobe instructor Tony Harmer shows you how to create PDFs for every occasion With PDF workows established almost everywhere, the days of packaging and sending out your source les should really be a thing of the past. Additionally, we should all be thinking about making our content available digitally, and PDF is a reliable way of doing so. Almost every computer has Acrobat or Reader software, so exporting to PDF is a good way to ensure your document can be viewed wherever it ends up. But which settings should you use? What do the standards mean? And what do you need to do rst? All will be revealed in this tutorial, which takes you through the steps involved in selecting the correct settings for your PDF, checking fonts and images and, nally, exporting the completed le ready to be viewed by the world. Tony Harmer An Adobe Certied Instructor who holds over 40 certications, and chapter leader for the London and Cardiff InDesign User Groups, Harmers 4Tpodcast is available on iTunes and at his site, www. tonyharmer.co.uk Time needed 5-15 minutes Skills Choose a Transparency Blend Space Select appropriate standards Create your own PDF settings Computer Arts September 2009 www.computerarts.co.uk ART166.tut_indesign 64 6/8/09 18:00:26 81
07 InDesign has a range of preset PDF settings for common types of output: High Quality Print for output to your desktop printer, Smallest File Size for the web or email and Press Quality, which is meant to be for prepress printing, although strangely enough it doesnt have any bleed. Its only good as a starting point, if anything, and that really goes for all three of these options. 06 Youre now ready to start making your PDF. Its little known that you dont have to go through the Export dialog to create a PDF the Adobe PDF Presets menu item in the File menu gets you there a few seconds quicker. 05 Youll then need to tell InDesign if the resulting PDF is intended for screen or print to let it know how to handle any transparency blending. Go to Edit>Transparency Blend Space. Choose Document CMYK for print output or Document RGB for screen. www.computerarts.co.uk Computer Arts September 2009 11 Your output intent is critical because it denes the ink coverage. CMYK can vary, and specifying an intent says which avour you planned for. For sheet-fed printing in Europe on coated stock, choose FOGRA39, while for uncoated stock FOGRA27 is the best catch-all solution. You can nd out more at the Ghent PDF Workgroup (www.gwg.org). 12 If you make a modication to any of the presets (such as adding bleed) then you can save that preset by clicking the button at the bottom-right corner of the dialog box. This will be available inside InDesign and (with the exception of PDF/X-4) inside Acrobat Distiller too. 13 If youre trying to make a le as small as possible for web deployment or sending over email, then you can make a leaner PDF by changing the downsampling to 72ppi, if you think it wont be viewed at over 100% magnication. If you use Acrobat then you can also run the PDF Optimizer (in the Advanced menu) to compress it further. 09 If youre using a colour- managed workow, the subset PDF/X-3:2002 might be the best solution (as long as its usable by your print service provider.) Youll be able to work with RGB images in Photoshop and use the same images in InDesign; conversion will take place at the end of the workow. 08 The subset PDF/X-1a:2001 is designed for CMYK-only workows and is widely accepted; you can pretty much send one of these anywhere in the world and itll print reliably. As with all of the PDF/X standards, font embedding is required - hence the earlier check. 10 If your print provider is using the Adobe PDF Print Engine, then you could use PDF/X-4 les. These may contain live transparency, which is attened at the end of the workow, enabling your provider to use the scheme that best suits them. PDF/X-4 can also contain both colour-managed and unmanaged images, as well as PDF layers, which can be useful for alternative versions and localisation. ART166.tut_indesign 65 6/8/09 18:00:33