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Contents
Introduc tion ............................................................................................................. 1
Advancing the state of the ar t .................................................................................. 2
Separations Preview palette ........................................................................................................................... 3
Flat tener Preview palet te ................................................................................................................................ 4
Bleeds, slugs, and pasteboard enhancements .............................................................................................. 5
Mixed ink s .......................................................................................................................................................... 6
Mixed ink groups .............................................................................................................................................. 6
PDF/ X -1a, PDF/ X- 3, and PDF 1.5 (Acrobat 6 - compatible ) supp or t ............................................................ 7
Enhanced Photoshop color support ............................................................................................................... 8
Merging raster- b ased Photoshop DCS and EPS f iles ................................................................................... 8
Info palette ........................................................................................................................................................ 9
Stroke enhancements ....................................................................................................................................... 9
Display and workspaces ................................................................................................................................. 10
Stor y e ditor ...................................................................................................................................................... 10
Subset control for large charac ter sets during o utput ...............................................................................11
He lping customers prepare InDesign f iles ............................................................... 12
Prep aring transparency ..................................................................................................................................12
Prep aring book f iles ........................................................................................................................................13
Using presets and set tings f iles to fur ther streamline customer handoffs ............................................ 14
Preflighting ..................................................................................................................................................... 14
Pack aging files for handof f ............................................................................................................................15
Handing of f Ado be PDF f iles ......................................................................................................................... 18
Opening InDesign files ............................................................................................19
About InDesign icons and program versions .............................................................................................. 19
Handling dic tionary dif ferences ................................................................................................................... 19
Managing missing fonts ................................................................................................................................. 19
Managing link s and relinking imp or te d f iles .............................................................................................. 22
Handling alerts about missing or mismatched color profiles .................................................................. 26
Preparing InDesign documents for output ............................................................. 30
Work ing with a book f ile................................................................................................................................ 30
Previewing the output area and p rintable items ....................................................................................... 33
Checking for dif ferences if the f ile was conver ted from earlier versions of Adobe InDesign ............. 33
Checking for dif ferences if the f ile was conver ted from QuarkXPress or Adobe PageMaker ............... 34
Preflighting the document ............................................................................................................................ 36
Trapping documents ...................................................................................................................................... 41
Previewing sep arations, transparenc y, and overprints ............................................................................. 46
Flat tening transparenc y for high - resolution output................................................................................. 50
Print dialog box reference ...................................................................................... 63
Common areas ................................................................................................................................................. 6 4
Setting up PostScript output paths.............................................................................................................. 69
General panel .................................................................................................................................................. 73
Setup pane l...................................................................................................................................................... 75
Marks and Bleed panel ................................................................................................................................... 80
Output panel ................................................................................................................................................... 83
Graphics panel ................................................................................................................................................ 91
Color Management panel .............................................................................................................................. 94
Advance d panel .............................................................................................................................................. 96
Summar y p anel ............................................................................................................................................... 98