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.

InDesign Workshop

Placing images from other programmes into InDesign -

Photoshop | Illustrator :

CMYK/Grayscale | CMYK

Actual Size | Illustrator Infinite Size

300dpi | Copy & Paste into InDesign

Tiff/PSD | Ai

Any images used in your design once copied into InDesign must be 'packaged'. Its best to make a folder containing your design as well as all the separate images saved independently in it.

Select all unused colours and delete them from your swatches when your design is finished. Use drop down menu (top right) and select - 'remove unused swatches'.

Overprinting - When two colours are overlaid and merge.

Knocking Out - When the colour on top knocks our/eats into the background colour.

*Black always overprints.

WINDOW > OUTPUT > ATTRIBUTES

Check the box 'overprint fill to print on top'

VIEW > OVERPRINT PREVIEW

Shows what will be printed.

Trapping - Adding stroke to text for example that is the same colour as the background. Helps to prevent misregistration. Good for producing screen printing negatives.

WINDOW > OUTPUT > ATTRIBUTES > OVERPRINT STROKE

Using separations to print individual pages of separate colour. e.g Cyan layer.

WINDOW > OUTPUT > SEPARATIONS

Spot Colour:

(on swatch palette) > top right drop down menu > new colour swatch

Placing a duotone image will instantly add the spot colours to the swatch palette.

The text frame tool is similar to the rectangular frame tool but is used to frame text instead of images.

Rectangular frame tool which can be used on which to import/place images into the InDesign document. It has been filled with a colour and a heavy stroke added to it.

InDesign page with standard bleed of 3mm. 3 columns have also been set up.