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Hi, there. In this video,

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we're going to look at creating a PDF from InDesign.

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We're going to make this super complicated one for the printers. It's not that hard.

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This one here, just a pretty little version that we

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can e-mail out or send to our local printer,

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and share and do all that awesome PDF stuff. Let's go and do that now.

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First thing to do is save you document File, Save.

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Next thing to do is if it's grayed out,

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just means you've already saved.

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Doesn't mean you can't save. It means you've already done that. Don't do it again.

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The next thing we want to do is we want to go down to Export,

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or Command E on a Mac or Ctrl E on a PC.

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Super easy down the bottom here,

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it should probably default to Adobe PDF.

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We're going to use this one called Print.

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You use that one if you going out to obviously print,

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and make sure it's set to that. Give it a name.

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I'm going to call minor name and put it into

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our folder on my desktop InDesign class files.

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This one's going to be called my Green at

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Heart Flyer and my V1, and let's Save.

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Now, the cool thing about this is this can look quite

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complicated and you can make it complicated if you want.

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But let's just do the basics now and we'll go through some more

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advanced exporting later on in the course case that you've got that video.

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But for the moment, go up here,

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put it on High Quality Print,

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and then just hit "Export". That's it.

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This will give you a PDF that will go to a printer and print perfectly.

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It'll print from your office,

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it'll be downloadable and look good quality.

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It'll do all of those things.

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Let's just do a tiny little bit more with the PDF.

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I'm going to jump back mines or medically opened up in Acrobat.

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Yours might not see mine, I have to go and find it.

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Once on my desktop in the folder we

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made and there it is there. Again, you might double click it.

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Yours is going to open up in some program.

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What I'd like to do is a couple of other things.

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Let's have a little look and InDesign is a little bit more detail.

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So File, Export again.

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I'm going to give it the same name and override it.

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It won't let me save it over the top because I've got to open in this program,

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so you have to close it down in Acrobat.

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I'm going to give it the same name.

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It's going to say, "Would you like to replace?"

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If it says you can't replace because it's open somewhere, go and close it.

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So I'm going to replace it. High Quality Print, say to that's fine.

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The other thing you might do is go to smallest file size.

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It's going to make it a lot smaller in terms of file size.

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This might be better if it's a really long document.

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Say it is an 80 page perspectives with lots of images,

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you might go to a small file size because you're sending it out

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to know colleagues to do a check,

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not the final prints, so it's not so big and you can e-mail it.

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That's why we need to do for that. Let's say we want to get High Quality Print,

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but we're sending it to a commercial printer.

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There's two little things we're going to do is this one under Marks and Bleeds.

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If we've added bleed to [inaudible] ,

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it was three millimeters or a quarter of an inch,

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I can't remember, 0.125.

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In here, we're going to turn on Crop Marks.

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Crop marks is the only thing you'll need,

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and down here where it says, I said two things,

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Crop Marks and you turn on the bleeds.

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It's picked, it's remembered our bleed.

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You can manually type it in here.

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But if I say use the bleeds from the document,

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you can see it in their very faded out about 0.125.

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I'm going to click "Export" and the only difference is,

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can you see around the outside here?

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These little crop marks here are used by the printer to slice.

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They lie in a guillotine up but that one and that side,

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and they just trim it off and that chunk in this little gap goes in the bin.

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If you're sending it to a commercial printer to print,

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you've got bleed and you want to add the bleed.

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All you do is you turn on the Crop Marks and

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the export and you turn on your bleed settings.

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If you just sending it out to be printed internally,

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or if we downloaded from a website,

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you don't have to turn those crop and bleed marks on.

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Now before we finish up,

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let's just have a quick look at our export settings as one of the things.

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I just want to show you this one.

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I'm going to close down this guy.

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I'm going to give it the same name, replace.

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I'm going to say "Yes, please".

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We're going to look at these.

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We're going to turn all of these on.

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Why would we turn them all on?

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You'd never turn them all on.

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We do it to impress people.

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Look at that, look how impressive and designery we look with,

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all these extra marks, these color bars,

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these registration marks, it all looks very good.

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The time is actually something you might turn on,

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and it has the document name.

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If I was sending this to a commercial printer,

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they would only want the crop marks.

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They would add their own color bars.

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These are just here to help the printer on this side of things.

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They've got a master Calcutta and they'll print yours out,

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they'll put the master shot next to these colors and just to see that they all merge.

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That will mean that their printer is working well,

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but they wouldn't expect you to put them on.

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You wouldn't add registration marks either.

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These are used by the printer.

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What they do is that registration color is actually printed in,

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it looks black, but has actually cyan,

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magenta, yellow, and black altogether.

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What happens is if it goes to the printer and the paper jiggles a little bit.

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What happens is if they see a yellow target sticking out the side here,

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they'll know that the plates aren't lined up

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or at least the printing ink is not laying over the top,

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and it might be the image might be a little fuzzy because

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these things aren't printing exactly on top of each other,

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but that only happens when you get to offset printing.

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We turn it on mainly to impress people,

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save your designer, and you're saving off to the client.

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This stuff is like,

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I'm a proper design with the least things.

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But if you're sending it to the printer, pull them off.

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I've got away on a bit of a tangent there.

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Just to recap, if you don't have bleed and you don't need it,

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so it's going to be just e-mail to somebody or download from website, File,

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Export, click, give it a name, replace,

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yes, please, and just pick High Quality Prints and then hit "Export".

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If you need the bleed, all you need to do extra external marks,

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got a Crop Marks,

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and turn on the document bleed,

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and then hit "Export."

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What you'll notice is see modified on top page,

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just means that if I pick High Quality Print, that's all basic.

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But if I turn this on, you see it becomes a modified,

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you've changed a little bit.

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Doesn't matter if it says modified because you've added these.

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We know what we're doing, we are professionals.

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That long-winded explanation of PDFs is now over.

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We'll go into some super advanced nerdy stuff in

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the advanced course of InDesign if you ever need to get into.

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But really what we've got here will work for 99 percent

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of the jobs you'll go into work on. See you in the next video.