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- [Instructor] Hello and welcome to this video tutorial
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In this tutorial, I will be demonstrating
how to export your document to PDF in Adobe InDesign.
So here I am in InDesign with the complete composition
and this is where I left off from the previous video
where I demonstrated how to prepare your finished document
ready for print.
So, how am I going to show this composition to the client
and how am I going to get this file
over the printers to print?
Well, it's not the InDesign file itself
that is sent over to the printers.
In InDesign, when I have completed my document,
and I'm ready for the client to see it
and I want to send it to the printers,
I'm going to export the document as a PDF.
PDF means portable document format
and once I have exported the document,
it will contain all the images and text
in a nice file that can be received and printed.
So I'm just going to show you a quick example
of what we are going to end up with.
So here is the high-res PDF exported
from my InDesign document and it is open
in the program Acrobat Reader.
If I look in the top left, I can see this PDF consists
of two pages: the inside and outside spread.
Now, if I look closely around the outside of my document,
I can see all the marks and guides.
When you export your document in InDesign,
these marks and guides are generated for you
and it's these marks that the printers use
in order to correctly trim and fold your document
and collaborate the printer to.
Now you can also export the PDF without these marks
and guides like so and here we can see the same PDF
but without the marks and guides.
Now it would be this type of PDF,
I would send to the client in order for them to view it
and give feedback.
So back in InDesign, I'm going to demonstrate
how to do this and first I'm going to export a PDF document
to send to the client.
Okay, so first I'm going to come to file,
scroll down to export, and upon click, a window will open.
And now it's asking me to name the file
and where would I like to place my new PDF.
So I'm going to call this Bike Leaflet Low
and navigate to my project folder and in this,
I'm going to choose the low resolution PDF folder
and click okay.
Now, another properties window will appear.
Right, so this PDF is for the client
and I'm going to send this over email
so I need this file to be ideally low in file size.
So starting from the top, I have the Adobe PDF preset.
These are a few presets which I can choose from.
I'm going to click this and choose smallest file size.
This means it will compress the artwork down slightly
in order to get the smallest file possible.
Next, I'm going to make sure all pages are selected
and I'm going to click on spreads.
Now I have a few options here.
I'm going to click on optimize for web
and view PDF after export.
Now, I'm going to leave everything else and click export.
Now InDesign will then render the PDF
and shortly it will pop up.
And we can see the PDF has opened up in Acrobat Reader
and I can see it's looking just fine.
Notice how this PDF has no marks and guides.
Now if I take a look in my project folder
and navigate to the low-res PDF folder,
I can see the file is sitting inside.
Now if I click on this file
and look at the file information,
I can see that this file is only 647 kilobytes.
Now, that will easily send over the email.
So that's how you can export a low file size PDF.
Next, I'm going to export the PDF for print.
So just like before, I'm going to come to file, export.
But this time I'm going to name it Bike Leaflet High.
And navigate to my high res PDF folder and click save.
This time, for the presets I'm going to choose high quality.
I need to make sure all pages is selected and spreads.
In the options, I can de-select optimize for web
and I leave view PDF after export.
This time, however, I need to come over to the left.
Here I can see some other tabs I can click on.
I'm going to click on the marks and bleeds tab.
Over to the right,
I'm going to click on the box all printer marks.
And that will check all the marks below.
I will come down to bleed and slug
and set each value to five millimeters and click export.
So just like earlier,
InDesign will then start to process the document into a PDF.
And when it has finished, the PDF will appear.
Now, I can see the PDF the same as before,
but now this document has all the marks
and guides the printer will need.
Now if I come to the project folder
and click into the high res PDF folder,
click on my new PDF and look at the file info,
I can see that this file is now 4.8 megabytes
and this is because the images contained
will be of much higher quality to be printed.
So quite a big difference from the low res.
So that's how you can export your document
as a PDF in Adobe InDesign.
And that completes the beginner's guide to Adobe InDesign.
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