General panel
The General panel contains basic printing options like those available in the Print dialog box (see the Print Dialog Box General panel description on page 76). It also lets you specify which PDF attributes are exported.
The General panel controls which pages, objects, and features export to a PDF file.
Pages area
The Pages area is similar to the Pages area in the Print dialog box, but it doesn’t have Sequence and Print Master Pages options. See “Pages area” on page 76.
Note: You may want to advise customers to leave the Spreads option off because it may interfere with imposition workflows.
Options area
The following options are available in the Options area:
Embed Page Thumbnails: Creates a thumbnail image for each page being exported, or one thumbnail for each spread, if the Spreads option is selected in the General panel. Acrobat 5 and
6 automatically generate page thumbnails, so this option is most useful for Acrobat 4, where deselecting this option can reduce the file size.
Optimize for Fast Web View: Optimizes an Adobe PDF file to reduce file size. InDesign restructures the file to prepare for page-at-a-time downloading (byte serving) from web servers. This option compresses text and line art regardless of what you have selected in the Compression settings. This option enables faster access and viewing when downloading the file from the Web or over a network.
View PDF After Exporting: Opens the Adobe PDF file in Acrobat. For best results, use
Acrobat 5, Acrobat 6 Professional, or Acrobat 7 Professional. Transparency can be viewed in
Acrobat 5, Acrobat 6 Professional, or Acrobat 7 Professional using this format. The Overprint
Preview command shows on-screen how overprinting will appear; you can preview overprints in the free Adobe Reader® as well as in Acrobat Standard or Professional.
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Create Acrobat Layers: Translates InDesign layers to PDF layers. This option is available only if you selected Acrobat 6 (PDF 1.5) or Acrobat 7 (PDF 1.6) from the Compatibility pop-up menu.
When selected, printer marks are placed on a new layer called Printer Marks. Note that PDF layers are generally intended to control display of multiple content sets, not simply to organize objects. You may not want to select this option unless you’re using InDesign to create content that takes advantage of PDF layer capabilities.
Include area
This area lets you specify which Acrobat features are included in the PDF file.
Bookmarks: Creates bookmarks for InDesign table of contents entries, preserving the TOC levels. This option also creates Adobe PDF bookmarks for hyperlinks within the InDesign document, which can be navigated in Acrobat or Adobe Reader.
Hyperlinks: Creates Adobe PDF hyperlinks for InDesign hyperlinks, table of contents entries, and index entries. The hyperlinks are fully supported in Acrobat or Adobe Reader.
Nonprinting Objects: Exports all objects, including those for which Nonprinting is turned on in the Attributes palette.
Visible Guides and Baseline Grids: Exports margin guides, ruler guides, column guides, and baseline grids currently visible in the document. Grids and guides export in the same color as used in the document.
eBook Tags: Generates an Adobe PDF file that automatically tags elements in the story based on a subset of the Acrobat 5 and Acrobat 6 Professional tags that InDesign supports.
Interactive Elements: Exports movies, sounds, and all enabled buttons states. While not directly relevant to prepress projects, this option enables the multimedia authoring support in
InDesign CS2 to translate directly into the corresponding capabilities in Acrobat.
Multimedia: Specifies whether movies and sounds are linked to or embedded in the PDF. This is only available when Interactive Elements is selected and doesn’t affect buttons. If Link All is selected, store the linked movies and sounds in the same folder as the PDF. The Use Object
Settings option lets linking and embedding be determined by settings applied to individual objects. Embed All embeds media regardless of object settings.
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