Identifying Imported Images
Chapter 10: Importing and Modifying Graphics
Adding Graphics from Other Programs
Open 13_start.indd, but don't update the Links!
When you print an InDesign document or export a PDF, InDesign must access the original artwork that was placed in the
layout—Even though you can see the artwork in InDesign.
That's why the dialog is there, to keep you from messing up and sending of a project to the printer without the necessary bits to get it printed.
Choose Menu Window Output Preflight.
Make sure the darn thing is On
Expand Links (10) and
Missing link (1).
Select Tagline.ai and expand the
Info layer.
Notice the red circle with the question mark 
indicating the missing-ness of the graphic's source file
The story the book tells is that it's missing because each issue has a tag-line of a custom color for that issues, and it got lost in the works somehow. Truth is, that's a pretty good representation of acutal production circumstances...
Click on the Missing Link icon and set the link to Tageline-periwinkle.ai
in the project's Links folder...
Before the correction
After the correction
You might also notice the jaggedy look of the missing file. This is a sign that the source file is missing too. InDesign puts a placeholder graphic into the .indd doc so you know how a thing is supposed to look, even if files are missing.
Update the sea-oats-small.jpg
link either by clicking on the yellow ! icon on the image, or double-clicking on the icon in the
Links panel
After the update...
You can see the slight color difference
This is another real-world issue. The photographer gives you a color-corrected photo because she doesn't like the first one she sent, and you put it in the Links folder, but neglected to update the link.
Option/Control click on the Update button to update the whole doc.
Go to page 1 and open the Separations Preview panel under Menu Window Output Separations Preview.
In the panel choose Separations for the View, and turn off the CMYK previews by clicking on the Eyeball
What's left are the PMS/Pantone colors being used in the print job.
A spot color is a special premixed ink that is used instead of, or in addition to, process inks, and requires its own printing plate on a printing press. Use spot color when few colors are specified and color accuracy is critical. Spot color inks can accurately reproduce colors that are outside the gamut of process colors.
Keep the following guidelines in mind when specifying a spot color:
Note that there's two PANTONE colors with almost excactly the same identifier, 647 C and 647 U. These aren't two different cans of ink, just one, but the C and U identify the color in InDesign as being printed on Coated (C) paper stock and Uncoated (U) paper stock. Which might well be the case. The cover is often a Coated paper stock while the inside pages are Uncoated.
PANTONE 647 (C) on left,
PANTONE 647 (U) on right.
Menu Window Output Preflight
Something like 99 settable attributes/properties
The key useful one:
COLOR:
Color Spaces/Modes not allowed:
RGB
The Swatches panel can find colors that, while they may have been used in the doc at one time, are no longer used.
Unused colors deleted...
It can also find colors used that weren't saved to the Swatches panel. Handy to set up the next stop, Using the Ink Manager.
The most popular is PMS/Pantone. Note that many Spot colors (all custom cans of ink colors are Spot colors) cannot be reproduced with CMYK inks. That's why you pay more for them. There's also issues with large fields of solid color that tend to be hard to print with CMYK. Ask your printer about what they can print without a Spot color.
Unlike Illustrator, color swatch libraries are buried in InDesign in the Swatches panel under the popup menu item
New Color Swatch...
.
Which means you need to already know the number of the color you want to use. Typical of InDesign. It is not a creative tool, but a technical tool for creating pre-determined designs.
The Ink Manager serves two basic purposes. (1) It cleans up how inks will print without hafing to go back and change imported graphics. So if an imported graphic uses a Spot color, the Ink Manager profides the option of chaing the sspot color to the equivalent CMYK process color. (2) If a document contains two similar spot colors when only one is required, the Ink Manager lets you map the variations to a single spot color.
Open Ink Manager from the Separations Preview panel or from the Swatches panel popup menus.
Click on the Spot icon
to turn the spot color into a CMYK
equivolent.
Turning it into a CMYK color removes it Spot color from the Separations Preview panel.
Our text says If spot color graphics use transparency, the results from Ink Manager are not reliable (when converting from spot to CMYK)
. So don't do that.
Open the Ink Manager again, change PANTONE 647C back into a Spot color, choose Pantone 647U, then set its Ink Alias to Pantone 647C
Result with Aliased ink icon
Colors removed from preview...
...but still in Swatches.
This might explain why they call all Effects (Drop Shadow, Opacity, Blending modes, etc.), Transparency Effects. Because they can give unpredictable results when mixed with spot colors.
They also were historically unsupported by PostScript printers. A file needed to be
flattened
before digital printers could print them. This section of the book is outdated since most printers now can handle transparency (although not with spot colors).
Most important thing is use w
to preview...
Normal
Preview
Bleed
Slug
Presentation (escape to exit)
There's two main kinds of pdfs that InDesign outputs: One for client proofing and approval, and one for sending to the printer. The main difference is that the client proof pdf doesn't show the bleed (which can be confusing to the uninitiated), and the printer version shows the bleed. The client version might also have lower-resolution images to save file size, but that's probably not a good idea anymore in the era of hi-speed network connections.
Choose File Export...
Pick
Adobe PDF Preset: [High Quality Print]
View PDF after Exporting
Export Layers: Visible& Printable Layers
Result
InDesign files are submitted to commercial printers either as native files (.indd, links, fonts, etc, after Packaging), or as a Press-Ready PDF. Press-Ready PDFs are high resolution and include a bleed area.
Choose Menu File Adobe PDF Presets Define
Select [Press Quality] , then click on
Preset Name:
Press Quality with Bleed
Marks and Bleeds tab:
Marks: Crop Marks
Offset: 0p9
Bleed: Top/Bottom/Left/Inside/Outside: 0p9
Choose
Menu File
Adobe PDF Presets
Press Quality With Bleed...
Result. Note crop marks in PDF
Most important settings for commercial printing PDF:
We're going to create a preset for proofing our indd doc. Not just a simple print execution, but one that optimizes the time it takes to print and includes the bleed (which can be important to check in a proof).
Proof, but the way, is an important printing and legal concept in printing. Proofs are made before all the work is done setting up printing plates and commercial printing presses. A proof like this one is only for content and to make sure there are no glaring errors like missing fonts, missordered pages, and so on. A Pre-Press proof is one that is done on an expensive high-end color printer (like this one) that becomes part of a legal contract to print whats shown in the proof the way it's actually shown in the proof. Especially color!
Choose Menu Print...
Category: Setup
Orientation: 
Portrait
Options: Scale to Fit (91.18)
Category: Marks and Bleed
Marks: Crop Marks
Offset: 0p9
Bleed and Slug: Use Document Bleed Settings
This will cause the bleed and crop marks to print. Important in this kind of proof.
Category: Output
Output: Composite CMYK (if available, otherwise Composite Gray)
Will force RGB images to print like they would with CMYK inks. Not a good thing, remember.
Category: Graphics
Images: Send Data: Optimized Subsampling
Fonts: Download: Subset
Will speed up printing time on large documents by sending images to the printer at the max resolution of the printer. So if you had a 1200dpi image and were printing on a 600dpi printer, InDesign would send a reduced dpi image to the printer. Font's is kind of silly, unless you've got hundreds of fonts. This comes from the early days of Desktop Publishing, when bandwidth and printer speed were orders of magnitude less than they are today.
Category:Color Management
Use Defaults, but not degree of control. Color Management is a whole complex thing...
Click the button
Call it Proof Fit To Page
.
Handy, because pagination can be confusing...
Open 13_SixteenPager.indd
for this demo. Choose Menu File Print Booklet...
Use defaults, but click on the button.
In Print Settings, set the Orientation to
Portrait
Check out the Preview. This kind of thing is nearly impossible to do without InDesign.
Should print on a two-sided printer in the correct order to trim and fold and staple together.
One of two standard ways of delivering print-ready files to a commercial printer. The other being a Press-Ready PDF
Choose Menu File Package...
The
warning icon shows 12 RGB color-spaced images in the project. Sometimes you want to convert them yourselves, and other times you want to let the
commercial printer do the converting, because they may have a better setup for get the best match on their printing equipment.
Click the button.
Fill in the instructions with useful information...
Save the file's folder name somewhere where you can find it...
Ignore the lawyer-speak...
It takes a bit...
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