Indesign 2.0 part 2

May 23, 2003 | Be the first to comment

Incredibly, Adobe's Acrobat and its Portable Document Format have been with us almost ten years. Despite such humble beginnings, the PDF is now an essential instrument for placing format-rich documents on the Web, as well as generating documents for print. In this tutorial, we're focusing on the PDF's latter strengths. The benefits are obvious - creating one compact selfcontained document, with all fonts, scans and logos embedded, rather than a plethora of individual files (think possible re-runs, font substitution, corrupt images, and so forth).

We've included a brief overview of Enfocus PitStop to show how you can 'beef up' the preflighting of your PDFs, catching problems such as low-res images and LAB colour that InDesign's own preflighting would otherwise miss.

We've chosen the imagery for this tutorial carefully - start merrily producing PDFs without checking the content at your peril. Follow the triedand- tested methods coming up, though, and they'll go a long way to assuring dependable results. Talk to your service provider and ask them what settings you should use, and always remember to sign off a digital proof - preferably pre-RIP'd and guaranteed to be the final printed version.

This tutorial can be found in issue 78 of Computer Arts , Winter 2002. To order a copy, please contact backissues@futurenet.co.uk. For more expert tutorials on 3D, Web and Photoshop, plus interactive CD ROM, subscribe for 13 issues here.

Download the tutorial pdf here and accompanying files below.

indesign.zip
pshop_files_a.zip
pshop_files_b.zip
pshop_17MB.zip