WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:0 00:00:06.830 --> 00:00:09.000 Hi, there. In this video, 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:11.430 we're going to look at creating a PDF from InDesign. 00:00:11.430 --> 00:00:15.375 We're going to make this super complicated one for the printers. It's not that hard. 00:00:15.375 --> 00:00:17.880 This one here, just a pretty little version that we 00:00:17.880 --> 00:00:20.775 can e-mail out or send to our local printer, 00:00:20.775 --> 00:00:26.340 and share and do all that awesome PDF stuff. Let's go and do that now. 00:00:26.340 --> 00:00:30.030 First thing to do is save you document File, Save. 00:00:30.030 --> 00:00:32.175 Next thing to do is if it's grayed out, 00:00:32.175 --> 00:00:33.860 just means you've already saved. 00:00:33.860 --> 00:00:37.405 Doesn't mean you can't save. It means you've already done that. Don't do it again. 00:00:37.405 --> 00:00:40.695 The next thing we want to do is we want to go down to Export, 00:00:40.695 --> 00:00:44.340 or Command E on a Mac or Ctrl E on a PC. 00:00:44.340 --> 00:00:46.325 Super easy down the bottom here, 00:00:46.325 --> 00:00:49.820 it should probably default to Adobe PDF. 00:00:49.820 --> 00:00:51.365 We're going to use this one called Print. 00:00:51.365 --> 00:00:54.185 You use that one if you going out to obviously print, 00:00:54.185 --> 00:00:57.380 and make sure it's set to that. Give it a name. 00:00:57.380 --> 00:00:59.390 I'm going to call minor name and put it into 00:00:59.390 --> 00:01:02.525 our folder on my desktop InDesign class files. 00:01:02.525 --> 00:01:06.350 This one's going to be called my Green at 00:01:06.350 --> 00:01:13.235 Heart Flyer and my V1, and let's Save. 00:01:13.235 --> 00:01:16.220 Now, the cool thing about this is this can look quite 00:01:16.220 --> 00:01:19.010 complicated and you can make it complicated if you want. 00:01:19.010 --> 00:01:21.650 But let's just do the basics now and we'll go through some more 00:01:21.650 --> 00:01:25.190 advanced exporting later on in the course case that you've got that video. 00:01:25.190 --> 00:01:27.115 But for the moment, go up here, 00:01:27.115 --> 00:01:29.025 put it on High Quality Print, 00:01:29.025 --> 00:01:32.655 and then just hit "Export". That's it. 00:01:32.655 --> 00:01:38.210 This will give you a PDF that will go to a printer and print perfectly. 00:01:38.210 --> 00:01:39.470 It'll print from your office, 00:01:39.470 --> 00:01:42.169 it'll be downloadable and look good quality. 00:01:42.169 --> 00:01:44.630 It'll do all of those things. 00:01:44.630 --> 00:01:48.635 Let's just do a tiny little bit more with the PDF. 00:01:48.635 --> 00:01:52.070 I'm going to jump back mines or medically opened up in Acrobat. 00:01:52.070 --> 00:01:54.685 Yours might not see mine, I have to go and find it. 00:01:54.685 --> 00:01:57.080 Once on my desktop in the folder we 00:01:57.080 --> 00:01:59.855 made and there it is there. Again, you might double click it. 00:01:59.855 --> 00:02:02.735 Yours is going to open up in some program. 00:02:02.735 --> 00:02:05.660 What I'd like to do is a couple of other things. 00:02:05.660 --> 00:02:09.080 Let's have a little look and InDesign is a little bit more detail. 00:02:09.080 --> 00:02:10.910 So File, Export again. 00:02:10.910 --> 00:02:13.550 I'm going to give it the same name and override it. 00:02:13.550 --> 00:02:16.760 It won't let me save it over the top because I've got to open in this program, 00:02:16.760 --> 00:02:18.995 so you have to close it down in Acrobat. 00:02:18.995 --> 00:02:20.960 I'm going to give it the same name. 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:22.340 It's going to say, "Would you like to replace?" 00:02:22.340 --> 00:02:25.940 If it says you can't replace because it's open somewhere, go and close it. 00:02:25.940 --> 00:02:28.925 So I'm going to replace it. High Quality Print, say to that's fine. 00:02:28.925 --> 00:02:31.550 The other thing you might do is go to smallest file size. 00:02:31.550 --> 00:02:34.310 It's going to make it a lot smaller in terms of file size. 00:02:34.310 --> 00:02:36.980 This might be better if it's a really long document. 00:02:36.980 --> 00:02:41.480 Say it is an 80 page perspectives with lots of images, 00:02:41.480 --> 00:02:43.805 you might go to a small file size because you're sending it out 00:02:43.805 --> 00:02:46.940 to know colleagues to do a check, 00:02:46.940 --> 00:02:51.570 not the final prints, so it's not so big and you can e-mail it. 00:02:51.730 --> 00:02:55.295 That's why we need to do for that. Let's say we want to get High Quality Print, 00:02:55.295 --> 00:02:57.530 but we're sending it to a commercial printer. 00:02:57.530 --> 00:03:02.925 There's two little things we're going to do is this one under Marks and Bleeds. 00:03:02.925 --> 00:03:05.340 If we've added bleed to [inaudible] , 00:03:05.340 --> 00:03:09.900 it was three millimeters or a quarter of an inch, 00:03:09.900 --> 00:03:13.075 I can't remember, 0.125. 00:03:13.075 --> 00:03:15.620 In here, we're going to turn on Crop Marks. 00:03:15.620 --> 00:03:17.915 Crop marks is the only thing you'll need, 00:03:17.915 --> 00:03:19.880 and down here where it says, I said two things, 00:03:19.880 --> 00:03:22.430 Crop Marks and you turn on the bleeds. 00:03:22.430 --> 00:03:25.015 It's picked, it's remembered our bleed. 00:03:25.015 --> 00:03:26.730 You can manually type it in here. 00:03:26.730 --> 00:03:29.225 But if I say use the bleeds from the document, 00:03:29.225 --> 00:03:33.725 you can see it in their very faded out about 0.125. 00:03:33.725 --> 00:03:36.770 I'm going to click "Export" and the only difference is, 00:03:36.770 --> 00:03:38.405 can you see around the outside here? 00:03:38.405 --> 00:03:42.380 These little crop marks here are used by the printer to slice. 00:03:42.380 --> 00:03:45.590 They lie in a guillotine up but that one and that side, 00:03:45.590 --> 00:03:49.710 and they just trim it off and that chunk in this little gap goes in the bin. 00:03:49.710 --> 00:03:51.830 If you're sending it to a commercial printer to print, 00:03:51.830 --> 00:03:56.330 you've got bleed and you want to add the bleed. 00:03:56.330 --> 00:03:58.490 All you do is you turn on the Crop Marks and 00:03:58.490 --> 00:04:00.580 the export and you turn on your bleed settings. 00:04:00.580 --> 00:04:04.415 If you just sending it out to be printed internally, 00:04:04.415 --> 00:04:06.575 or if we downloaded from a website, 00:04:06.575 --> 00:04:09.190 you don't have to turn those crop and bleed marks on. 00:04:09.190 --> 00:04:10.520 Now before we finish up, 00:04:10.520 --> 00:04:13.955 let's just have a quick look at our export settings as one of the things. 00:04:13.955 --> 00:04:15.665 I just want to show you this one. 00:04:15.665 --> 00:04:18.020 I'm going to close down this guy. 00:04:18.020 --> 00:04:20.300 I'm going to give it the same name, replace. 00:04:20.300 --> 00:04:21.830 I'm going to say "Yes, please". 00:04:21.830 --> 00:04:24.020 We're going to look at these. 00:04:24.020 --> 00:04:26.485 We're going to turn all of these on. 00:04:26.485 --> 00:04:28.650 Why would we turn them all on? 00:04:28.650 --> 00:04:30.000 You'd never turn them all on. 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:31.460 We do it to impress people. 00:04:31.460 --> 00:04:34.685 Look at that, look how impressive and designery we look with, 00:04:34.685 --> 00:04:36.860 all these extra marks, these color bars, 00:04:36.860 --> 00:04:39.380 these registration marks, it all looks very good. 00:04:39.380 --> 00:04:41.480 The time is actually something you might turn on, 00:04:41.480 --> 00:04:42.920 and it has the document name. 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:44.795 If I was sending this to a commercial printer, 00:04:44.795 --> 00:04:46.325 they would only want the crop marks. 00:04:46.325 --> 00:04:48.945 They would add their own color bars. 00:04:48.945 --> 00:04:51.945 These are just here to help the printer on this side of things. 00:04:51.945 --> 00:04:54.740 They've got a master Calcutta and they'll print yours out, 00:04:54.740 --> 00:04:59.845 they'll put the master shot next to these colors and just to see that they all merge. 00:04:59.845 --> 00:05:02.525 That will mean that their printer is working well, 00:05:02.525 --> 00:05:04.520 but they wouldn't expect you to put them on. 00:05:04.520 --> 00:05:06.485 You wouldn't add registration marks either. 00:05:06.485 --> 00:05:07.810 These are used by the printer. 00:05:07.810 --> 00:05:11.360 What they do is that registration color is actually printed in, 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:12.920 it looks black, but has actually cyan, 00:05:12.920 --> 00:05:15.185 magenta, yellow, and black altogether. 00:05:15.185 --> 00:05:18.750 What happens is if it goes to the printer and the paper jiggles a little bit. 00:05:18.750 --> 00:05:22.865 What happens is if they see a yellow target sticking out the side here, 00:05:22.865 --> 00:05:25.220 they'll know that the plates aren't lined up 00:05:25.220 --> 00:05:27.980 or at least the printing ink is not laying over the top, 00:05:27.980 --> 00:05:30.860 and it might be the image might be a little fuzzy because 00:05:30.860 --> 00:05:33.830 these things aren't printing exactly on top of each other, 00:05:33.830 --> 00:05:36.130 but that only happens when you get to offset printing. 00:05:36.130 --> 00:05:38.480 We turn it on mainly to impress people, 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:40.790 save your designer, and you're saving off to the client. 00:05:40.790 --> 00:05:42.635 This stuff is like, 00:05:42.635 --> 00:05:44.980 I'm a proper design with the least things. 00:05:44.980 --> 00:05:47.850 But if you're sending it to the printer, pull them off. 00:05:47.850 --> 00:05:50.195 I've got away on a bit of a tangent there. 00:05:50.195 --> 00:05:52.820 Just to recap, if you don't have bleed and you don't need it, 00:05:52.820 --> 00:05:56.330 so it's going to be just e-mail to somebody or download from website, File, 00:05:56.330 --> 00:05:59.820 Export, click, give it a name, replace, 00:05:59.820 --> 00:06:03.750 yes, please, and just pick High Quality Prints and then hit "Export". 00:06:03.750 --> 00:06:07.535 If you need the bleed, all you need to do extra external marks, 00:06:07.535 --> 00:06:08.720 got a Crop Marks, 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:10.190 and turn on the document bleed, 00:06:10.190 --> 00:06:11.480 and then hit "Export." 00:06:11.480 --> 00:06:13.610 What you'll notice is see modified on top page, 00:06:13.610 --> 00:06:17.450 just means that if I pick High Quality Print, that's all basic. 00:06:17.450 --> 00:06:19.730 But if I turn this on, you see it becomes a modified, 00:06:19.730 --> 00:06:21.180 you've changed a little bit. 00:06:21.180 --> 00:06:23.540 Doesn't matter if it says modified because you've added these. 00:06:23.540 --> 00:06:26.680 We know what we're doing, we are professionals. 00:06:26.680 --> 00:06:31.055 That long-winded explanation of PDFs is now over. 00:06:31.055 --> 00:06:33.440 We'll go into some super advanced nerdy stuff in 00:06:33.440 --> 00:06:36.950 the advanced course of InDesign if you ever need to get into. 00:06:36.950 --> 00:06:39.980 But really what we've got here will work for 99 percent 00:06:39.980 --> 00:06:44.070 of the jobs you'll go into work on. See you in the next video.