Printing and Exporting Posts

New Adobe White Paper on Creating Accessible PDF Files from InDesign

July 3 2009 • 4:41 PM

If you need to export accessible (Section 508) PDF files from InDesign, you need this new white paper from Adobe!

Merging Separations into Composite CMYK plus Spot

July 3 2009 • 12:48 AM

Need to recombine pages that have been separated into individual color channels? Photoshop can help with this arcane but helpful trick!

CS4 Live Preflight Best at Checking for Font Embedding Problems

July 2 2009 • 4:25 PM

While InDesign CS3 and other utilities claim to identify protected fonts, Live Preflight in InDesign CS4 does the best in detecting problems.

Ease Your Print Production Folding Pain

June 28 2009 • 6:40 PM

Creating folds properly is one of the knottiest problems in InDesign print production. The FOLDRite Template Master plug-in for InDesign CS3 and CS4 can make them easily.

Adding Bleed to a Document

June 26 2009 • 1:34 AM

You want objects to extend all the way to the page edge… you need bleed!

Preparing for Print Webinar (InDesign Best Prepress Practices Series)

June 17 2009 • 1:22 PM

Now you can finally answer the question: “But will it print?!” Join Steve Werner as he delves deep into InDesign prepress.

Preview SWF Files Inside InDesign with PlaySWF Script

June 12 2009 • 8:10 AM

They said it couldn’t be done: A free script that previews SWF files inside a floating panel!

SWF Embedded in InDesign PDF Problem Solved (mostly)

June 11 2009 • 9:03 AM

A solution is found for the vexing “buffering” problem when SWF is included in PDF files on the Mac

PDFs Placed into CS4 Documents May Drop Characters When Exported to PDF.

May 29 2009 • 12:30 PM

Issue affects PDFs viewed or printed in Acrobat or Reader version 8 and earlier.

A Down and Dirty Way to Lock Content

May 17 2009 • 9:44 AM

Prevent accident changes to finalized content by exporting to InCopy.