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Making objects nonprinting

Making objects nonprinting - InDesign Tutorial

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Making objects nonprinting

Perhaps you suspect that an image on your page is causing the whole document not to print, or perhaps you've included an object in your document that you want to see on screen, but not in print or in an exported PDF. In either case, you're in luck, because InDesign lets you make any object on your page nonprinting. Now, this feature lives in the Window menu underneath the Output sub-menu, just choose Attributes. The Attributes Panel contains the Nonprinting checkbox. And to make an object nonprinting, you simply select it and then turn on that checkbox. This object still appears on screen because we're not in Preview Mode. If I deselect all objects, and I'll do that simply by clicking in the pasteboard area out here, and then go into Preview Mode by pressing the W key, that image disappears. That's because Preview Mode only shows me stuff that's going to print. It doesn't show me guides, or things on the pasteboard, or nonprinting objects. Now, that object is still there. In fact, we…

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