From the course: InDesign Secrets
217 Choosing which layout objects get packaged for the printer - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
217 Choosing which layout objects get packaged for the printer
- Sometimes you want to keep items on the document page, but you don't want them to be included when you export this whole thing to a Package, a Package that you create for a printer or that you're going to give to a freelancer, in other words, what happens when you go to File, Package. So just to review really quickly for the newbies out there, packaging creates a copy of the entire publication, along with fonts, links, and images, and puts them into a folder on the desktop or wherever you save it to. Now, one way that you can avoid things being included in the Package is to move them to the pasteboard, but as I said, that's not the situation I'm talking about. I'm talking about when you want something to stay in the layout, but you don't want it included in the Package. For example, let's say, for whatever reason, this carrot is fine right here in the layout, but when you export to a Package, you don't want the carrot included. One thing you might do would be to hide it. If we go to the Layers panel, and the carrot is selected, the little red square, and we hide it, then when I export to a Package, let's go ahead and do that. We'll click Package and save the publication, and just click Continue at this Instructions file that nobody uses. We're going to save it on the desktop, and for this purpose, I don't need to include the IDML or PDF. If you don't see these options, it's because they're only in CC 2014 and 2015. But it will copy the fonts used and any linked graphics that are in the document pages, and it'll update the graphic links in the Package. So I'm going to export. We get the warning about the fonts that we can ignore, because we do have the licensing for all these fonts. Now, the carrot's file name was carrot.jpg. Let's take a look at the package in a new window. So here are all the links, and there's carrot, so even though we hid it, it included it in the Package. Well, that's not going to work. Let's come back here and show the carrot again. The answer is to put it into a non-printing Layer. So if I create a new Layer, and we'll call this, let's just say non-printing, to be clear. You need to make sure and turn off Print Layer, which is turned on by default, and when you do that and click OK, then the name of the Layer turns italic, which I think is interesting. If you have any italic Layers in your Layers panel, then you know that's why. Now we can take this carrot, and we'll move it to the non-printing. Select it to get the little proxy icon, drag and drop it to non-printing. So it's not like a locked layer. You can still see it. You can still edit it while you're here. But if you go to Print Preview, I'll tap the W key to look, you'll see that it's not there, because Print Preview shows you what's going to print. But even better than that, when we export to another Package, and we'll put this on the desktop again with a new name, we'll call it two, and all those settings remain the same, and choose Package. Let's jump to the finder and take a look at two, and go to Links, and carrot is not there. There's other files called carrots1 and so on, but our actual carrot file, called carrot.jpg. does not appear, so that's one way to avoid including things. Now, you might say, "Why would you ever want to do that?" Well, sometimes you want a non-printing Layer, to be able to do things like, say, add notes. So over here, if we said, replace this carrot with an eggplant, we can drag these two things right on top. That's a note to somebody that you're working with. And we'll go to the Layers panel and we'll move eggplant to non-printing, and we'll move the note right there to non-printing, so we just drag and drop the proxy icons, and that way there's no way that this will ever make it into the Package that you're going to send to a commercial printer. So it's kind of like a little guarantee for yourself. Well, here's another use of this non-printing Layer, in the file called My book. You can put instructions for people, like, say, in a template for your company, in a non-printing Layer. So here in instructions, I have little guidelines for people. I have large gray squares to help my users know where to put content. This is actually adapted from a real life template used by blurb.com, and the idea is that instructions, or this stuff, but you create a new Layer for people's actual items that are going to go into the design, so I can just hide the instructions Layer, so you get a quick preview of what this is going to look like. This is a great help for new InDesign users or for staff who are not designers, just to create a non-printing Layer with instructions and guidelines for them. So there you go. So when hiding an item or sticking an item on a pasteboard isn't working for you, don't forget the great method of creating a non-printing Layer to put items in your document that will not appear in print or in a Package.
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229 Batch converting ID files to current version with the Book panel6m 9s
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230 Getting around InDesign limitations6m 46s
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231 Creating better callout lines with effects and object styles5m 47s
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232 Swapping column and row information in tables6m 9s
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233 Making bigger text link targets4m 52s
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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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111 Packaging images on the pasteboard3m 32s
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112 Automatically updating figure references for books6m 9s
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113 Adding Tool Tips to your form fields in InDesign3m 21s
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114 Setting poetry, flush left, center on longest line3m 54s
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115 Use bookmarks to navigate long documents in production4m 57s
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107 Using the same keyboard shortcut for two different commands with the Context feature5m 22s
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108 Making a text highlighter3m 33s
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109 Updating an interactive PDF without losing work done in Acrobat5m 30s
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110 Adding custom text at the beginning of each line automatically4m
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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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047 Specifying an exact amount of space between objects5m 17s
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048 Fixing last lines that are too short8m 16s
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049 Creating web graphics from your InDesign artwork7m 20s
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050 Using “No Language” to suppress unwanted hyphenation, spell-checking, and smart quotes2m 48s
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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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027 Creating running heads using variables5m 1s
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028 Live Caption tips and tricks8m 3s
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029 Making professional drop caps10m 37s
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030 Making two-state buttons in interactive documents5m 5s
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031 Moving pages from one document to another3m 15s
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032 Wrapping bulleted text around a curve5m 58s
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007 Selecting through and into objects using cmd-click and Select Above/Below5m 46s
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008 Some great tips and tricks for the Swatches panel9m 40s
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009 Saving down for backward compatibility with INX and IDML5m 54s
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010 Using the INX and IDML formats to fix problems4m 46s
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