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Exporting a PDF quickly and easily

Exporting a PDF quickly and easily - InDesign Tutorial

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Exporting a PDF quickly and easily

When you open the File Menu and choose Export, InDesign gives you the option of exporting as an Adobe PDF Print, or PDF Interactive. And as I said earlier, I have a whole title here in the online training library about Interactive PDF's. Here I'm just going to focus on the PDF print format. I'll click Save and up comes the Export Adobe PDF dialogue box. And there are a ton of options in this dialogue box. Don't worry, I'll cover most of them in this chapter and the next. But right now I'm just going to show you the basic process. I'm going to choose an Adobe PDF preset from this pop up menu up here. In fact, I'm going to choose PDFX1A. Then, I'm going to make sure the View PDF after exporting check box is turned on. I like that because I like to see the PDF open in Acrobat when it's done. And now I'm about to click Export. But before I do, I want you to pay attention to this little area way up here at the top of the screen. To the right of these little icons. Up in the area called the…

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