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3. Click on the advanced button: This will open this dialog box. As
you can see, in the Output page, all the colors of ink used are
listed. However, in this case, we definitely do not want to print the
cyan, magenta, yellow, or black plates. So, we click on the print
This way only the PMS268 & PMS 138 colors will print. They will
each become a separate greyscale page of the PDF.
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4. Choose the Marks page: Turn on all marks. If you are
printing this yourself, you may need to turn off the marks
depending on the sheet sizes available on your digital
printer.
5. Close the advanced dialog
6. Now chose the Printer Features page of the
print dialog box: This is the confusing part.
As soon as you choose this (the first time you choose for a given
PDF), you will be given the Save As dialog. You want this and
should choose the location and name that you want to use when
you finally print this document. That is what is going to happen
when you finally click the Print button in the original Print
dialog. But the print you make will be the new separated PDF.
7. As soon as you choose the location a resolution popup will
appear: This is the final choice of this page. You need to choose
the resolution of the final output device you are going to be using.
This is important! The resolution needs to be
that of the imagesetter, or platesetter at your
printing company: For a Quickprint operation, this will
normally be 1200 dpi. for a commercial printer, this might be 2400 dpi. You
need to ask you printer what they want. Sadly, In this case they will usually
ask for 600 dpi. That is really too low for the type you have set. I would just
make it at 1200 dpi in that case. It will make the PDF larger, but it should not
affect the output. If it does, apologize and send in the 600 dpi requested.
This is one of the sometimes painful aspects of picking a printing company
because of price.
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8. Execute the Print dialog: The separated PDF will be
produced. WARNING! Because of the high resolution
this may take quite a while. Be patient.
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To export a separated PDF
directly from InDesign CS4
You can do this, but it is a little confusing.
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Then set up your separations
Notice you can pick your resolution here — although I would rather
have a 150-line, 2400 dpi option.
Now you can click the Print button: If you open the Acrobat PDF
Printer app when it launches you will see that Distiller is automatically
launched and a separated PDF is generated. In my case it was dropped
onto the desktop. If you have your default download folder elsewhere it is
possible that it might end up somewhere else — but it will be generated and
dropped into your computer somewhere. Search for it if necessary. (Lord
knows where it will go on a PC!)
Strangely enough it will have a .indd.pdf extension
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