From the course: Learning Print Production: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign

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Packaging a print job

Packaging a print job

From the course: Learning Print Production: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign

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Packaging a print job

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- [Instructor] When you're finished with your project, you've checked it over carefully, and you've run Preflight on it, you're ready to submit it to the printer. Now, the printer may ask you to submit a print-ready PDF plus your application files, meaning your InDesign file and all of the necessary support art. If you had to gather up all the stuff that you'd found on your server, on your hard drive and all those little sub-folders, that wouldn't be any fun. What's nice is that InDesign will do it for you using the package feature. Go to File, and Package and it does a quick check and gives you a summary of what it's found out about your file. Now, this is nothing like what you can find out with Preflight, but it's a quick overview. Under Fonts, it says that all the fonts are active but it says that they're protected. What does that mean? That doesn't mean that they won't allow themselves to be embedded in PDFs.…

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