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Package an InDesign project - InDesign Tutorial

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Package an InDesign project

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll see how to use InDesign's package feature to collect all the assets needed to output a project or to archive it. With my file open, I'll choose File, Package, and in the dialog box, the first thing InDesign shows you is a summary of the assets it will collect. So I can see that there are six fonts used in this document and there are no problems with them. I have four linked images and InDesign alerts me that all four are in RGB. And that's fine, that's what you want, in most cases, to get the best possible color, even in print output. My document uses only process inks, no spot colors. I do have two third-party plugins running right now and I can check what those are by going to the tab in the dialog box. In this case, there's no problem. I didn't use either of these to produce this document, so even if someone else opens the document without these plugins, they'll still be able to work with it just fine. And I can also click through the other tabs to see more details about the assets, like the specific fonts used, the linked images, colors and inks, and the last used print settings. That all looks fine, so I'll click the Package button. I'll name the folder Chapter Three Package and notice there are options about what to include. We can copy the fonts, but not any fonts synced from the Adobe Font service and non-Adobe Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts. The restriction on Adobe fonts means that whoever works on this file next will need a Creative Cloud subscription so they can sync those fonts to the their computer. We can also copy linked graphics and update the links so they point to the files in the package. That way, the InDesign file won't have missing images when it's opened. We can also include things like an IDML version of the document, which can be opened with older versions of InDesign and a PDF made with a preset that we can select here. I'll turn that and IDML off since I only want the assets used to work with this content in InDesign. And I'll click Package. I get a warning not to violate my font licenses by copying them without permission, OK. Then I'll switch to my desktop. There's the package folder and inside it is the new copy of the InDesign file and the collected fonts, which, in this case, are just the default fonts installed with InDesign and the linked images. So here we saw how to use the package feature in InDesign to collect project assets for sending to a colleague or for creating a project archive, including fonts and linked images.

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