From the course: InDesign Secrets
238 See your document in grayscale onscreen - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign Secrets
238 See your document in grayscale onscreen
- One of the best things about InDesign is that it can give you a really accurate view of your document, on-screen, without you having to print out a proof. That's because InDesign has a very powerful, color-management engine built in, and that lets you proof colors for all kinds of conditions. I talk about that in great detail in my course, InDesign Insider Training: Color Management, but there's something that's not obvious at all. How can I see my document as though it were being printed on a black-and-white printer, like a laser printer? Well, you can look in the View menu all you want, but you won't find anything that says anything about "View in Black and White" or "View in Grayscale," but it turns out that the solution is pretty easy, and it is inside the View menu. To get a black-and-white or grayscale view of your document, first, go up here to the Proof Setup submenu and choose Custom. This Customize Proof Condition dialogue box looks kind of scary, but it's really simple. This lets you tell InDesign how you want to preview your document, that is, what output device you want to simulate. Now, the majority of items inside this popup menu are color profiles. They're for color devices. That means they're either CMYK or RGB, but if I scroll way down to the bottom of this list, you'll see these items down here: Dot Gain and Gray Gamma. These are all different grayscale settings. Now, in my testing, there is typically very little difference between which gray profile you choose. There should be a big difference, but there just isn't, so I typically just choose something like this Dot Gain 15%, and then, you could simulate the paper or black colors down here, but I'm not gonna bother with that. I'm simply going to leave those alone and click OK, and there you go. The whole document previews in grayscale, right on-screen. Now I can turn that off and on by going back to the View menu and turning on or off the Proof Colors checkbox. There it is in color, and there it is back in black and white. Now, remember, this is not actually changing anything about the document or your files on disk or even how this will print. This is just a preview setting, one that you probably didn't know about before, but now you do.
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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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