Adobe InDesign: Prepress Techniques
Adobe InDesign, first released in 1999, has revolutionised for-print design across the world. The quality of type, integration with Photoshop, ease of output and advanced prepress features have given publishers a very powerful tool. With power comes responsibility.
My personal journey with InDesign as a Prepress tool started with beta testing InDesign 2.0 as ACP in late 2001 InDesign 2.0: Spot Colors, Transparency
Transparency, once the bastion of Photoshop, is now unleashed at a late stage in the layout tool. Transparency can be freely be used by designers to highlight objects, reclaim image space for text and easily blending elements together in a natural way.
Many of the questions asked by customers via email, at roadshows and those who have visited this web site have been condensed into these techniques. Some of these techniques were pioneered here in Australia, and are in daily production use. Feedback and comments are welcome. nhodge@adobe.com
If you are a Prepress operator, I strongly suggest you start here: InDesign, Acrobat and Adobe Print Technical Documentation, and ensure you read InDesign CS2 Print and Prepress Guide
InDesign Prepress Articles
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InDesign CS2 Print and Prepress Guide
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InDesign CS2: Printing and Prepress guide
InDesign CS2 Print and Prepress Guide
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InDesign CS2: Printing and Prepress guide
InDesign CS: Prepress Overview
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An overview of the Prepress specific features in InDesign CS
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Print Service Provider documentation is divided into three topic areas: Printing Guides, PDF and Printing and Color and Transparency
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Explaining how Text and Transparency Flattener interact in InDesign CS
InDesign Prepress: Transparency Flattener Magic
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How to use the Flattener to get greater colour control at output time
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Using Duotones in InDesign CS, including duotones from Photoshop
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How to successfully generate quality print results from a PDF 1.4 or 1.5 from InDesign CS
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Using InDesign CS to generate Composite Trapped PDFs
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The best way of taking Photoshop files into InDesign 2.0/CS
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Should you Export PDFs or Distill PDFs from InDesign 2.0/CS?
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What is new in Acrobat 6.0 for Prepress
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How to take Photoshop with Spots, Transparency and Vector into InDesign 2.0 for composite PDF
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