TABLE OF CONTENTS
3 Advancing productivity, consistency, and compatibility
15 Maintaining consistent color
22 Helping customers prepare InDesign files
28 Opening InDesign files
39 Preparing InDesign documents for output
68 Print dialog box reference
97 Streamlining output with print presets
101 Exporting Adobe PDF files
112 Streamlining output with PDF presets
WHITEPAPER
Adobe InDesign CS2 Printing
Guide for Prepress Service
Providers
Introduction
Welcome to the Adobe® InDesign® CS2 Printing Guide for Print Service Providers.
You’ll find this document useful as both a detailed technical reference for handling
InDesign CS2 jobs from your customers, and as a training tool for your staff. This document is organized so that you can quickly find information about specific customer situations. You may also want to read the entire document to gain a comprehensive understanding of service-provider-related features in Adobe InDesign CS2.
Adobe InDesign is now well established and continues to advance as Adobe responds to the requirements of both designers and service providers. Designers value the product’s advanced design capabilities that expand creative freedom and streamline production workflows. When it’s time for final printed output, it is easier than ever for a customer to locate an Adobe InDesign prepress service provider. The widespread acceptance of
Adobe InDesign by prepress service providers results from a long and proven record of reliable, consistent prepress output and a deep set of tools specifically geared to identify and resolve prepress issues before output.
As with every previous generation of Adobe InDesign, Adobe InDesign CS2 incorporates requests from print professionals worldwide. This close and continuing collaboration with the print publishing community makes possible great advances in output efficiency and quality. Adobe InDesign CS2 includes substantial output workflow refinements based on service provider feedback, as well as support for new and emerging output workflows and standards.
Table of Contents
1 ADOBE INDESIGN CS2 PRINTING GUIDE FOR
PREPRESS SERVICE PROVIDERS
1 Introduction
3 ADVANCING PRODUCTIVITY, CONSISTENCY,
AND COMPATIBILITY
4 Manage and inspect entire projects with Adobe
Bridge
6 Maintain visual consistency using object styles
7 Control visibility settings of imported layers
8 Place multiple pages from a PDF file
9 Include Adobe Stock Photos in documents
10 See more consistent color throughout
Adobe Creative Suite 2
12 Share PDF job options
12 Impose publications with the ALAP InBooklet SE plug-in
12 Save documents backwards to
Adobe InDesign CS
12 Output smoother drop shadows and feathered edges
13 Enjoy improved PDF compatibility with older RIPs
13 Manage and edit dictionaries more easily
14 Reuse page content using snippets
15 MAINTAINING CONSISTENT COLOR
15 Achieving consistent color
16 Synchronizing color settings across
Adobe Creative Suite 2 components
17 Using a safe CMYK workflow
19 Customizing a color settings file
20 Customizing black appearance for monitor display or printed comps
22 HELPING CUSTOMERS PREPARE INDESIGN FILES
22 Preparing customers for consistent color
22 Preparing transparency
23 Preparing documents that use Adobe Stock
Photos
23 Preparing documents that apply layer overrides to imported files
24 Preparing book files
24 Using presets and settings files to further streamline customer handoffs
25 Preflighting
25 Packaging files for handoff
27 Handing off Adobe PDF files
28 OPENING INDESIGN FILES
28 About InDesign icons and program versions
28 Managing customer dictionaries
31 Managing missing fonts
33 Managing links and relinking imported files
36 Handling alerts about missing or mismatched color profiles
39 PREPARING INDESIGN DOCUMENTS FOR
OUTPUT
39 Working with a book file
41 Previewing the output area and printable items
41 Checking layer visibility overrides
44 Checking for differences if the file was converted from earlier versions of Adobe InDesign
44 Checking for differences if the file was converted from QuarkXPress or Adobe PageMaker
46 Merging raster-based Photoshop DCS and EPS files
47 Preflighting the document
50 Trapping documents
54 Previewing separations, transparency, and overprints
56 Overprint Preview
57 Flattening transparency for high-resolution output
58 How flattening changes the document
58 Finding out how a document uses transparency
61 Flattening DCS workflows
61 Flattening OPI workflows
61 Understanding transparency flattener presets
64 Previewing transparency flattener presets
67 Applying transparency flattener presets
68 PRINT DIALOG BOX REFERENCE
69 Common areas
69 Printer Preset, Printer, and PPD menus
72 Setting up PostScript output paths
76 General panel
78 Setup panel
82 Marks and Bleed panel
84 Output panel
87 Ink Manager
91 Graphics panel
93 Color Management panel
95 Advanced panel
96 Summary panel
97 STREAMLINING OUTPUT WITH PRINT PRESETS
97 Setting up print presets
99 Distributing print presets throughout your shop
100 Applying your print presets to customer files
101 EXPORTING ADOBE PDF FILES
101 Common areas
103 General panel
105 Compression panel
106 Marks And Bleed panel
107 Output panel
109 Advanced panel
110 Security panel
111 Summary panel
112 STREAMLINING OUTPUT WITH PDF PRESETS
112 About the predefined PDF export presets
113 Setting up PDF export presets
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Advancing productivity, consistency, and compatibility
The modern printing architecture in Adobe InDesign CS2 is in its fourth generation, incorporating half a decade of refinement and optimization for optimum performance on the latest prepress output devices and operating systems. Specifically addressing the needs of prepress service providers, Adobe made sure that previous versions of InDesign included essential features such as preflight and package capability, and also introduced key service provider tools such as Separations Preview, Flattener Preview, the Ink Manager, and direct Adobe PDF output for high-end printing. These enhancements to high-end output all result from input from print professionals worldwide. With those existing capabilities now tried and tested in production environments, Adobe InDesign CS2 moves ahead to more advanced enhancements that can reduce costs and increase productivity in prepress environments. For example, the output workflow of a prepress service provider can now be significantly streamlined by the new safe CMYK workflow. This workflow enables CMYK images to move through the entire production process without any color changes, while at the same time enabling RGB images to be converted properly to CMYK. Safe CMYK is just one example of increased attention to color consistency across
Adobe Creative Suite 2.
Adobe InDesign CS2 is a primary component of Adobe Creative Suite 2, which includes
Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop®, Adobe Illustrator®, Adobe GoLive®, and Adobe Acrobat®.
Even before the existence of the Adobe Creative Suite, designers routinely combined elements from Illustrator and Photoshop into their InDesign, GoLive, and Acrobat projects.
Adobe Creative Suite 2 further integrates these Adobe Creative Suite components, and both designers and service providers benefit from this effort. More skills and features learned in one Creative Suite component can be applied directly to the rest of the Adobe Creative Suite, and more key production-related files can be shared. For example, prepress service providers can now more easily standardize the production and output settings for their shop and their customers by distributing PDF presets and color consistency settings files that work with all
Adobe Creative Suite 2 applications and are stored in a single location. In addition, the new
Adobe Bridge component enables quick interchange, inspection, and management of project files created by Adobe Creative Suite 2 components and other applications.
Adobe remains committed to giving prepress service providers production and output capabilities that are an even match for the sophisticated layouts that designers can create in Adobe InDesign CS2. Similarly, Adobe InDesign CS2 is designed to successfully output advanced features used in files placed from Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat software.
For example, designers can now use Adobe InDesign 2 to control the visibility of layers for some file formats; this feature is balanced on the production side by a new preflight feature that indicates when layer overrides are present, in order to minimize unexpected output at the service provider. A new ability to place multiple pages from a PDF file can accelerate PDF ad placement and manual imposition of PDF pages in Adobe InDesign CS2.
The following sections provide an overview of the improvements in Adobe InDesign CS2.
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