Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide
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Cross-references:
Simplify the writing, production, and management of long
documents with flexible and powerful cross-references that dynamically update as
content is changed or moved within a document.
As cross-media publishing grows, your customers may wish to repurpose their print content for
online use. InDesign CS4 builds on the HTML export features of CS3 and adds new features
to enable designers and print production operators to create interactive online content without
learning an extensive new set of skills:
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Interactive document design with SWF file export:
Transform page layouts into
dynamic SWF files without working in the Adobe Flash® authoring environment.
Create digital documents with interactive buttons, hyperlinks, and unique page
transitions for playback in the Adobe Flash Player runtime.
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Page transitions in SWF and PDF files:
Apply page transitions such as wipe,
dissolve, fade, and more to individual pages or all spreads, and output to SWF or
PDF. Preview a page transition before it is applied, and experiment with speed and
direction for greater design control. You can even add a page curl effect during SWF
export.
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Export to Adobe Flash CS4 Professional (XFL):
Export InDesign documents to
the XFL format and open them in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional with the visual
fidelity of your original InDesign layout maintained. Use Flash to add sophisticated
interactivity, animation, and navigation to complex layouts for an engaging reading
experience.
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Kuler panel:
Easy access to the Adobe Kuler online community, so you can experi-
ment with color harmony rules, and create, save, and download color themes, auto-
matically adding them to the Swatches panel. Note that Kuler-generated swatches
are RGB.
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Collaboration tools:
Use the Share My Screen function via ConnectNow (File >
Share My Screen) to collaborate and communicate with customer. Corrections and
revisions are much easier when you and your customer are looking at the same file
simultaneously.
Preparing InDesign Documents for Output
Your particular workflow will dictate some of the operations you perform on incoming InDesign
files; for example, you may wish to substitute a four-color rich black formula in large areas of
black that the customer built as 100%-process black. You may need to re-separate customer
images to accommodate the total ink limit of the press running the job, and so on. But there are
some general operations that you should consider performing on every job, as part of preparing
it for imaging.
Cleaning up extraneous content in files
While extra content such as non-printing objects, hidden objects, and objects outside the page
limits won’t actually image, such content can add to file size and file complexity, or even produce
unnecessary alerts.
Cleaning up the Pasteboard
Objects in the pasteboard area do not image, nor do they appear in exported PDF files, unless
they fall within the designated bleed or slug area. But the proxy representations of graphics
used in those objects are still present in the file, and they contribute to file size. When a file is
packaged, InDesign does not include the links for objects in the pasteboard that are fully outside
the printable area of the document. However, when the file is opened on another computer, it
produces a Missing Link alert triggered by that absent content, that at first appears to be a prob-
lem. However, links in the pasteboard area are marked by the page designation “PB” in the Links
panel, which will help you narrow down the issue. To prevent future confusion, delete unused
content in the pasteboard area.
Unused layers
Empty layers don’t cause any problems in imaging, but deleting them from a complex document
may facilitate troubleshooting or other file operations. In the Layers panel menu, choose Delete
Unused Layers. There’s no confirmation or intermediate alert; the layers are instantly deleted.
