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Designing the Adobe InDesign Way

Designing the Adobe InDesign Way

By : Andy Gardiner
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Designing the Adobe InDesign Way

Designing the Adobe InDesign Way

4.6 (10)
By: Andy Gardiner

Overview of this book

Adobe InDesign is the leading desktop publishing and layout software for producing brochures, magazines, flyers, books, posters, and a wide range of digital documents. It allows you to rapidly draft your documents with precise control over typography, images, positioning, alignment, color, and other interactive features. However, InDesign’s interface, tools, and workflows can be a bit challenging to get to grips with. This cookbook will assist you in building unparalleled InDesign workflows with tried and tested recipes. With Designing the Adobe InDesign Way, you’ll learn how to add and edit content, create color swatches, and use features such as tables, all while applying software best practices and techniques to ensure that your work is fast, efficient, and easily maintained. Additionally, you’ll explore advanced InDesign features such as text styles, parent pages, tables of contents, and pre-flighting. Finally, you’ll take a closer look at the many export options in InDesign and ways to truly maximize its capabilities. By the end of this book, you’ll be well equipped to draft and design your own projects while ensuring your work is compatible with industry standards for print and digital documents.
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Appendix: InDesign Tools Panel at a Glance

Exporting and importing preflight profiles

When using preflight profiles, it can be useful to be able to import and export the profiles. Maybe you want to export a copy of a preflight profile to give it to a colleague for them to preflight their own documents, or you might want to import a copy of a preflight profile provided by your printer. In either case, the ability to export and import profiles can come in useful and potentially save you quite a bit of time.

In this recipe, we will look at how to export a preflight profile from the Preflight panel as well as how to import a profile back into the panel.

Getting ready

If you are intending to export a preflight profile, then you should be comfortable creating a preflight profile as shown in the previous recipe, Creating a custom preflight profile. If you are looking to import a preflight profile that you have been provided with, you can skip straight to step 3.

How to do it…

In order to import and export preflight...

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