Tuesday, 19 October 2010

InDesign Workshop 2

FILE > Adobe PDF Presets
(Quality PDF if sending to printers, small scale for just viewing on screen)

Once a PDF has been sent to the printers, they can view it with all colour separations etc through Adobe Acrobat.



FILE > PACKAGE
(saves everything in a file ready to send to print)

- Use links tab to ge information on the images within the document. To prevent going back to correct any images, make sure they are scaled in Photoshop before placing into InDesign. The small pencil icon on the links palette lets you edit the original image in Photoshop if you have it saved.

- Image is only 72dpi instead of 300dpi.

- Missing link to one of the images is flagged.

- Two unused Pantone spot colours haven't been deleted.

- Front cover design isn't stretched to bleed.

- 'Back Cover' text is in registration black.

- The blue background colour is an RGB colour.

For this second InDesign workshop we were given the task of finding the 8 intentional faults with this document. The ones we found are as follows:

- 2 Pantone spot colours on the separations palette are not used.
- The image on the first page isn't stretched to bleed.
- A link to one of the images in the document is missing.
- One of the images is only 72dpi and it should be 300dpi.
- Text on the back cover is in registration black.
- Blue background colour is an RGB colour.
- One of the images is in RGB mode.
- One of the images has been scaled up and become pixelated.

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