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Contents
Introduction ............................................................................................................. 1
Advancing the state of the art .................................................................................. 2
Separations Preview palette ........................................................................................................................... 3
Flattener Preview palette ................................................................................................................................ 4
Bleeds, slugs, and pasteboard enhancements .............................................................................................. 5
Mixed ink s .......................................................................................................................................................... 6
Mixed ink groups .............................................................................................................................................. 6
PDF/ X-1a, PDF/ X- 3, and PDF 1.5 (Acrobat 6 - compatible) suppor t ............................................................ 7
Enhanced Photoshop color suppor t ............................................................................................................... 8
Merging raster- based Photoshop DCS and EPS f iles ................................................................................... 8
Info palette ........................................................................................................................................................ 9
Stroke enhancements ....................................................................................................................................... 9
Display and work spaces ................................................................................................................................. 10
Stor y editor ...................................................................................................................................................... 10
Subset control for large character sets during output ............................................................................... 11
Helping customers prepare InDesign files ...............................................................12
Preparing transparenc y ..................................................................................................................................12
Preparing book f iles ........................................................................................................................................13
Using presets and settings f iles to fur ther streamline customer handof fs ............................................ 14
Pref lighting ..................................................................................................................................................... 14
Packaging f iles for handof f ............................................................................................................................15
Handing of f Adobe PDF f iles ......................................................................................................................... 18
Opening InDesign files ............................................................................................19
About InDesign icons and program versions .............................................................................................. 19
Handling dictionar y dif ferences ................................................................................................................... 19
Managing missing fonts ................................................................................................................................. 19
Managing link s and relinking impor ted f iles .............................................................................................. 22
Handling aler ts about missing or mismatched color prof iles .................................................................. 26
Preparing InDesign documents for output ............................................................. 30
Working with a book f ile................................................................................................................................ 30
Previewing the output area and printable items ....................................................................................... 33
Checking for dif ferences if the f ile was conver ted from earlier versions of Adobe InDesign ............. 33
Checking for dif ferences if the f ile was conver ted from Quark XPress or Adobe PageMaker ............... 34
Pref lighting the document ............................................................................................................................ 36
Trapping documents ...................................................................................................................................... 41
Previewing separations, transparenc y, and overprints ............................................................................. 46
Flattening transparenc y for high - resolution output ................................................................................. 50
Print dialog box reference ...................................................................................... 63
Common areas ................................................................................................................................................. 64
Setting up PostScript output paths.............................................................................................................. 69
General panel .................................................................................................................................................. 73
Setup panel...................................................................................................................................................... 75
Mark s and Bleed panel ................................................................................................................................... 80
Output panel ................................................................................................................................................... 83
Graphics panel ................................................................................................................................................ 91
Color Management panel .............................................................................................................................. 94
Advanced panel .............................................................................................................................................. 96
Summar y panel ............................................................................................................................................... 98
