Hi, there. In this video,
we're going to look at creating a PDF from InDesign.
We're going to make this super complicated one for the printers. It's not that hard.
This one here, just a pretty little version that we
can e-mail out or send to our local printer,
and share and do all that awesome PDF stuff. Let's go and do that now.
First thing to do is save you document File, Save.
Next thing to do is if it's grayed out,
just means you've already saved.
Doesn't mean you can't save. It means you've already done that. Don't do it again.
The next thing we want to do is we want to go down to Export,
or Command E on a Mac or Ctrl E on a PC.
Super easy down the bottom here,
it should probably default to Adobe PDF.
We're going to use this one called Print.
You use that one if you going out to obviously print,
and make sure it's set to that. Give it a name.
I'm going to call minor name and put it into
our folder on my desktop InDesign class files.
This one's going to be called my Green at
Heart Flyer and my V1, and let's Save.
Now, the cool thing about this is this can look quite
complicated and you can make it complicated if you want.
But let's just do the basics now and we'll go through some more
advanced exporting later on in the course case that you've got that video.
But for the moment, go up here,
put it on High Quality Print,
and then just hit "Export". That's it.
This will give you a PDF that will go to a printer and print perfectly.
It'll print from your office,
it'll be downloadable and look good quality.
It'll do all of those things.
Let's just do a tiny little bit more with the PDF.
I'm going to jump back mines or medically opened up in Acrobat.
Yours might not see mine, I have to go and find it.
Once on my desktop in the folder we
made and there it is there. Again, you might double click it.
Yours is going to open up in some program.
What I'd like to do is a couple of other things.
Let's have a little look and InDesign is a little bit more detail.
So File, Export again.
I'm going to give it the same name and override it.
It won't let me save it over the top because I've got to open in this program,
so you have to close it down in Acrobat.
I'm going to give it the same name.
It's going to say, "Would you like to replace?"
If it says you can't replace because it's open somewhere, go and close it.
So I'm going to replace it. High Quality Print, say to that's fine.
The other thing you might do is go to smallest file size.
It's going to make it a lot smaller in terms of file size.
This might be better if it's a really long document.
Say it is an 80 page perspectives with lots of images,
you might go to a small file size because you're sending it out
to know colleagues to do a check,
not the final prints, so it's not so big and you can e-mail it.
That's why we need to do for that. Let's say we want to get High Quality Print,
but we're sending it to a commercial printer.
There's two little things we're going to do is this one under Marks and Bleeds.
If we've added bleed to [inaudible] ,
it was three millimeters or a quarter of an inch,
I can't remember, 0.125.
In here, we're going to turn on Crop Marks.
Crop marks is the only thing you'll need,
and down here where it says, I said two things,
Crop Marks and you turn on the bleeds.
It's picked, it's remembered our bleed.
You can manually type it in here.
But if I say use the bleeds from the document,
you can see it in their very faded out about 0.125.
I'm going to click "Export" and the only difference is,
can you see around the outside here?
These little crop marks here are used by the printer to slice.
They lie in a guillotine up but that one and that side,
and they just trim it off and that chunk in this little gap goes in the bin.
If you're sending it to a commercial printer to print,
you've got bleed and you want to add the bleed.
All you do is you turn on the Crop Marks and
the export and you turn on your bleed settings.
If you just sending it out to be printed internally,
or if we downloaded from a website,
you don't have to turn those crop and bleed marks on.
Now before we finish up,
let's just have a quick look at our export settings as one of the things.
I just want to show you this one.
I'm going to close down this guy.
I'm going to give it the same name, replace.
I'm going to say "Yes, please".
We're going to look at these.
We're going to turn all of these on.
Why would we turn them all on?
You'd never turn them all on.
We do it to impress people.
Look at that, look how impressive and designery we look with,
all these extra marks, these color bars,
these registration marks, it all looks very good.
The time is actually something you might turn on,
and it has the document name.
If I was sending this to a commercial printer,
they would only want the crop marks.
They would add their own color bars.
These are just here to help the printer on this side of things.
They've got a master Calcutta and they'll print yours out,
they'll put the master shot next to these colors and just to see that they all merge.
That will mean that their printer is working well,
but they wouldn't expect you to put them on.
You wouldn't add registration marks either.
These are used by the printer.
What they do is that registration color is actually printed in,
it looks black, but has actually cyan,
magenta, yellow, and black altogether.
What happens is if it goes to the printer and the paper jiggles a little bit.
What happens is if they see a yellow target sticking out the side here,
they'll know that the plates aren't lined up
or at least the printing ink is not laying over the top,
and it might be the image might be a little fuzzy because
these things aren't printing exactly on top of each other,
but that only happens when you get to offset printing.
We turn it on mainly to impress people,
save your designer, and you're saving off to the client.
This stuff is like,
I'm a proper design with the least things.
But if you're sending it to the printer, pull them off.
I've got away on a bit of a tangent there.
Just to recap, if you don't have bleed and you don't need it,
so it's going to be just e-mail to somebody or download from website, File,
Export, click, give it a name, replace,
yes, please, and just pick High Quality Prints and then hit "Export".
If you need the bleed, all you need to do extra external marks,
got a Crop Marks,
and turn on the document bleed,
and then hit "Export."
What you'll notice is see modified on top page,
just means that if I pick High Quality Print, that's all basic.
But if I turn this on, you see it becomes a modified,
you've changed a little bit.
Doesn't matter if it says modified because you've added these.
We know what we're doing, we are professionals.
That long-winded explanation of PDFs is now over.
We'll go into some super advanced nerdy stuff in
the advanced course of InDesign if you ever need to get into.
But really what we've got here will work for 99 percent
of the jobs you'll go into work on. See you in the next video.