CONVERTING AN INDESIGN SPREAD TO A PDF

There are times when working on an Indesign project, that when you switch from one Mac computer to another that the second computer does not recognize the fonts. In past versions of the Mac, all you had to do was highlight and paste the font from your packaged folder into the fonts folder on the computer.

To the best of my knowledge this is no longer possible to do. In order to preserve the fonts you have chosen to work with, the best thing to do is create a PDF as postscript for print, saving the spreads as pages in your file.

Here is how you do that:

1. Go to File/Print Booklet
2. Under Set up: Check All
3. On left side of Window choose "Preview". Check to be sure your paper is aligned correctly. (If the it is misaligned then click the "Print Settings" button on the bottom of the window and then choose "Set up" on the left of the print window and change your orientation. click OK.)
4. Click "Print Settings" and Change "Print devices" to Postscript and choose your "Printer" then
5. Click Print (This will automatically save the document as a PDF. and will not print it.
6. Open your PDF and check to make sure the spreads were saved as pages.