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When working in Indesign, often you will want an image to be cut out from the original background. InDesign automatically places a solid white background around an objects edge, even when you have selected out the background in Photoshop. To elimanate the background you will need to create a clipping path in Photoshop.
Here is how you do that:
- Make your desired selection.
- Go to: Path Pallete/Library/Make a Working Path-tolerance (2px)
- Go to: Path Pallete/Library/Save/Name it.
- Go to: Path Pallete/Library/Choose Path/Flatness(2px)
- File/Saveas/Tiff or Jpeg.
When you place the image, Indesign should recognize the clipping path.
Note: Refer to help menu for more information on using this tool: Photoshop: Convert Selection to a Path
The pages that you view in InDesign will not print in a book form, unless you tell InDesign to create a booklet. Below are the instruction for printing your ID document:
Opening the Print Booklet Window
With the ID file open Go to: File/PrintBooklet
1) A window will appear giving you several options to adjust your final output:
2) For a standard half letter document that you plan to fold and staple or stitch, under Setup (Fig A) choose Style pop menu 2-up Saddle Stitch (Fig B). (See Indesign Help: Printing/Printing Booklets, for help with page configuration.)
3) Under Margins (Fig C) Choose a 0 inch margin if you want to have your design end at the edge of the trim section. (See InDesign Help for a detailed explanation of the Margins, Gap, Bleed…etc.)
Pre-viewing Spreads before printing
(A spread is all the pages that will print on one side of a piece of paper.)
a) To pre-view a spread, highlight Preview (FIG A). The preview window will appear.
b) Click the left and right arrow keys (FIG B) to scroll through the spreads. (The page number will appear and so will a sketch of the context of each page.
c) If the spreads are not properly aligned with the pages, then click PrintSettings (Fig C-above)
View and Adjusting the Print Settings
a) With the Print window open, highlight Set up (FIG A) and choose the correct Orientation (FIG B)
e) Under the print window you can make other adjustments, as well, to custom fit you booklet. (Remember it is usaully better to do this to the original document.)
f) When finished Click OK (This will bring you back to the PrintBooklet Window)
Printing your spreads
If you are printing on a printer, which will NOT let you print double sided, you will need to manually flip over each Spread and reinsert it into the printer.
a) Remove all, but one piece, of paper from the manual feed tray, on the left hand side of the printer.
b) From the PrintBooklet window click "Print". Page 1 and 8 will print on one side of the paper.
c)Flip and reverse the paper in the manual feed tray. 2 and 7 will print.
d) Repeat the process for all of your pages.
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.
