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Exporting layouts to PDF

Exporting layouts to PDF

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Exporting layouts to PDF

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One of the best features about Adobe InCopy is that anything that you can open you can export to PDF. It has the full PDF engine built in just like InDesign does. So you don't need Acrobat to make a nice-looking PDF. Let's say, for example, that you want to create a PDF of the layout. So I have the three-page layout that we have been using a lot during this video title that I want to make a PDF of. Now if you want to see what exactly this is going to look like as a PDF, remember you can go to the View menu, go to Screen mode, and choose Preview and this is what it's going to come out looking like, okay. So I will go back to Screen mode > Normal. To export to PDF, go to the File menu. Now you don't want to choose Print. YOu are not going to print to PDF and there is no Export to PDF menu itself as there is in InDesign. Instead, you just choose Export and then under Save as type what you want to do is choose Adobe PDF. So we are going to export this to PDF and it will export it directly…

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