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Exporting to print-ready PDF

Exporting to print-ready PDF - InDesign Tutorial

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Exporting to print-ready PDF

- Having run the preflight on our document, I'm now ready to create a print-ready PDF. I should put in a disclaimer here that these settings are just generic settings, and that you will need to get the specific settings from your printer. If you're using an online print service, you can download the exact settings that they require from you. But I'm going to come to my file menu, and Adobe PDF presets, and in this case, I'm going to use this one, press quality. Typically this one, high quality print, should be avoided unless you're just making a print on your desktop printer, because this does not convert colors, RGB colors, to CMYK colors. Now, in the case of the interior of the book, we don't have any color images, so this is a fairly simple scenario here. But, usually, the PDF preset that you receive from your printer will be based upon and may have some slight modifications, but based upon one of these default presets. So I'll go ahead and save this as the document name, dot PDF…

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