From the course: Learning Print Production: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
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Using Overprint Preview in InDesign
From the course: Learning Print Production: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign
Using Overprint Preview in InDesign
- [Instructor] When you open this file, if you see this announcement that you're missing a font, don't worry, it's available through Creative Cloud. All you have to do is click activate. Now, if you don't see this dialogue, it means you already have the font active on your system. Give it a couple of seconds and it'll wake up. And you can if you want enable auto activate. I haven't yet so I'm just going to skip that dialogue. Well, this is kind of an interesting looking bunch of stuff but InDesign is lying to us about how it's really going to print. If you go up to view and choose over print preview, as you look at that I want you to memorize that keyboard shortcut on Windows Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Y, on the Mac Cmd+Opt+Shift+Y, 'cause it's easier to use the keyboard shortcut. So I'm going to use that Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Y, Cmd+Opt+Shift+Y. Here's my normal view. I just want you to look at the words blending modes made out of little…
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Setting InDesign preferences3m 52s
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Create a three-panel brochure, folded size4m 8s
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Create a three-panel brochure, flat size3m 19s
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Working with color swatches6m 29s
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Understanding "rich black"2m 53s
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Creating correct color-plus-black gradients2m 15s
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Managing graphics9m 23s
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Using Overprint Preview in InDesign4m 12s
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Transparency issues across applications3m 17s
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Preflighting in InDesign4m 48s
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Packaging a print job4m 55s
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Generating PDFs6m 24s
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