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Create a portable InDesign document

Create a portable InDesign document - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

Create a portable InDesign document

- [Instructor] The best part about PDFs is that you can send them around and they look exactly the same. But the worst part about PDFs is that when you send them around, they're very difficult to edit, unless somebody has a copy of Acrobat and knows what they're doing and even then they're difficult. I'm going to show you one of my favorite in between solutions, which is to make an InDesign file that is kind of like a PDF except it's editable. So here here's a typical scenario. I'm going to go ahead and open a file that I have in my desktop called Cuba TourFlyer. I use this a lot for teaching and training. (groans) Don't you hate it when you see this alerts that there's missing links. Of course, this usually happens at the most inopportune time, like when you are demoing something to, you know, a freelancer or to your client or your boss, like, ah, okay, it's sort of like caught me with my slip showing. Do you…

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