Prepare your InDesign files for print production
Claudia McCue
www.peachpit.com
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Adobe® InDesign® provides a number of tools that are useful when you’re playing “What’s wrong with this picture?” before you send your job to the print service provider. Several tools help you spot problems visually, and the Preflight function provides a written report.
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to spot and repair problems in your InDesign files before you send them out for production. Then, we’ll show you how to get your files ready for the print shop by saving them to Adobe PDF files.
Requirements
To follow along with this article, you will need the following software:
Adobe InDesign CS2
Prerequisite knowledge:
Basic knowledge of InDesign CS2
About the authors
Claudia McCue, a prepress pro with more than 20 years of experience, is the owner of Practicalia, an independent training provider specializing in Adobe and Quark products, general prepress and printing, and retouching and color correction. She is a frequent presenter at industry conferences.
Excerpted from “Real World Print Production” by Claudia McCue. Copyright © 2007. Used with permission of Pearson Education, Inc. and Peachpit Press. All rights reserved. If you enjoyed this tutorial, you can also purchase this book from peachpit.com.
