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Check your document

before export / print

• Set Bleed How to....

• Make sure the image resolution is p.2 Set Bleeds
high enough (as close as possible p.4 Check Links
to 300 dpi) —
• For printed books binded with p.6 Create a Book Cover
saddle stitched / perfect boud etc p.8 Export Pdf for Print
total pages must be multiples of 4 —
(8, 16, or 32, etc) p.10 Export Pdf for Digital version
• Check your inner margins ! p.11 Pakage
• Respecr your margin Convert RGB to CMYK p.18
• Don't forget
— align your elements! Print Goodies
— Type matters ! p.24 Printer's address
p.25 Binding guides
p.26 Ask a quotation (devis)
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Bleed

To set up bleed ppen dialog box:

1. Choose File > Document Setup.
Click Bleed and Slug to expand it.
2. Enter the bleed 5mm in one of the fields
3. click the Make all settings the same icon to
extend the bleed evenly on all sides.
4. Click OK.

Tip: If you enter “5mm” InDesign will translate it

into default units for you.
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Bleed

Pull images and colored blocs out

to the edges of the bleed guides.

Bleed guides
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Check Links

Make sure there are

no missing images
missing
link icon

click relink button

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Check Links

Make sure there are

no modified images Modified
link icon

click the update

link button
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Indesign porfolio
exemple format A4 Create Book Cover
for printing
If you are going to print your cover on a different
paper or different thikness than inner paper you
have to create another file.

In this fille you will put

— Front Cover ( first page)
— Inside Front Cover (second page)
— Inside Back Cover (penultimate page)
— Back Cover (last page / ex.p 8)

Back Cover Front Cover

Inside Front Cover Inside Back Cover

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Cover porfolio
Format document A3
Cover format

If your closed porfolio is A4 (w : 210 mm x h : 297

mm), for the cover you have to create a document
that will have the same height and twice the width
Cover size (NO FACING PAGES)
width 210mm
height 420 mm

If your closed porfolio is a square (210mm x 210

mm) , for cover you have to create a document
that will have the same height and twice the width
Cover size (NO FACING PAGES)
Back Cover Front Cover
width 210mm
height 420 mm
bleed 5mm

Once create the document your will put your

Inside Front Cover Inside Back Cover content ( see diagram) and you will export (p.8)
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Export pdf
for print

Ask to you printer if he/she can print

in RGB (rvb) or if he/she perfers CMYK (cmjn):

• If in RGB > go to p. 7 (export pdf)

• If in CMYK > go to p. 11 ( pakage)
pakege / convert images and colors
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Export PDF print

To export an open document to PDF for printing

open dialog box:
1. Choose File > Export.
2. Specify a name and location for the file.
And choose Adobe PDF (Print),

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Export PDF print

1

1. From the Adobe PDF Preset menu

Choose : PDF /X-4:2008
2. Pages : Select all / Pages
3. After select Marks and bleed
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Export PDF print

1
1. From Marks check
Crop marks
2. From Bleed and Slug check
Use Document Bleed Settings

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Export PDF
1 Digital Porfolio

To export a document to PDF for presentations

open dialog box:
• Choose File > Export.
2 • Specify a name and location for the file.
And choose Adobe PDF (Print),

1. From the Adobe PDF Preset menu

Choose : Hih Quality
2. In Pages Select :
All
Spreads
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Package files

Package gathers copies of all images

and fonts used in the document along
with a copy of the InDesign document
itself into a single folder.

You will found a folder called LINK

where you can find all your images
to convert in CMYK

You can even use this option to ar-

chive completed jobs, to make sure
that all necessary elements are stored
together.
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Pakage

Package gathers copies of all images

and fonts used in the document along
with a copy of the InDesign docu-
ment itself into a single folder . You
can even use this option to archive
completed jobs, to make sure that all
necessary elements are stored toge-
ther.

Open the Package dialog box:

1. Choose File > Package
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Pakage

Package gathers copies of all images

and fonts used in the document along
with a copy of the InDesign docu-
ment itself into a single folder . You
can even use this option to archive
completed jobs, to make sure that all
necessary elements are stored toge-
ther.

Open the Package dialog box:

1. Choose File > Package
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Pakage
In the dialogue box that opens
make sure there are no missing
images (if there are missing
images see p. 5) or fonts and
click the package button.

CHECK FOR ERRORS

In the Package dialog box, an alert icon

indicates problem areas.

Navigate down through the options and check the

box that says Show Problems Only for each option.

1. Click the problem area and then correct

the problem.
2. Click Package to begin packaging.
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Pakage

SAVE YOUR FOLDER

Give your packaged folder a descriptive name

and choose a location to save it.

Make sure to select the following :

1. Copy Fonts Copies all necessary font files, not the entire typeface.
2. Copy Linked Graphics
3. Update Graphic Links In Package
4. Include IDML

Click pakage
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Pakage

YOUR INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE PRINTER

You can skip !

Click Continue
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Pakage

VIEW REPOR / A NOTE ON FONT FILES

A Warning message then flashes up on screen.

Click ok
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Converting
RGB to CMYK

Once the folder pakage is created,

go to the link folder and here you can
find all your images to convent
in CMYK.

To convert RGB files to CMJK

1. Open your image rgb in Photoshop
2. Choose Image > Mode
3. Then Mode > CMYK
4. Save in the link folder ( in JPG)
whith the same name
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link

update image
CMYK

Open your INDESIGN file in the

pakage folder and update all
your images!
Modified
link icon Make sure in the color swatches pan-
nel there are not RVB or pantone co-
lors

click the update

link button
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converting Rgb / Pantone

to CMYK

Open color swatchespannel

check if you have
RGB or
Pantone colors

RGB color (no)

Pantone color (no)

CMYK color (ok)

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2
converting Rgb / Pantone
to CMYK

3 Converting RGB / PANTONE to CMYK

1. Double-clicking on the swatch (rgb or Pantone)
in the swatches panel to display the Swatch
Options dialog box.
2. click > MODE Navigate down through the op-
tions and click on > CMYK then > OK

See p. 7 to export pdf print

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Printer's address

IMPRESSION NUMÉRIQUE IMPRESSION NUMÉRIQUE

Paris Out Paris

• Parnascopy • E-center
Tour Maine Montparnasse, 6 rue Avaulée
33 Avenue du Maine, 75015 Paris 92240 Malakoff
01 45 38 73 21 01 41 48 48 00
http://www.e-center.fr
• Magenta Colors
55 Boulevard de Magenta, • isiprint
75010 Paris 15 rue Francis de Pressensé,
01 55 26 90 20 93210 La Plaine Saint-Denis
www.magentacolor.com/ +33 (0)1 55 87 45 80
[email protected]
• Opéra Print http://www.isiprint.net
28 Rue Notre Dame des Victoires,
75002 Paris
01 42 97 49 15
www.operaprint.com/

• Imprimerie Launay
45 Rue Linné,
75005 Paris
01 43 54 16 60
www.imprimerie-launay.fr/
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Choosing
Binding Type

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Ask a quotation for your book

Impression Recto/Verso

open size format ouvert :

closed size format fermé :
n° of pages n° pages :
paper papier (gr) :
binding reliure :
n° copy n° exemplaires :