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087 Exporting a grayscale PDF - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
087 Exporting a grayscale PDF
InDesign users have a long wanted a way to get a gray-scale PDF out of InDesign. One with no color at all. And in InDesign CS6, Adobe finally lets you do this, right out of the box. Now I'm going to show you how that works, but first I'm going to show you how to do it if you're still in InDesign CS5 or earlier. First you need a PDF. So I'll go to the File Menu and choose Export PDF. I'll save this to my desktop, and I'm going to choose PDF/X-1a. It almost doesn't matter which you choose, but in this case I'm going to start with PDF/X-1a. When I click Export, InDesign saves the PDF to disk, and then opens that in Acrobat. Acrobat is where we're going to do the conversion to grayscale. In Acrobat 10, we're going to use the Tools pane. So I'll click on that, and then open up the Print Production pane. Here, I use Convert Colors, and the Convert Colors dialog box is rather overwhelming, let me show you what you need to pay attention to. The main thing you need to do is tell Acrobat to…
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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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