Adobe InDesign is a specialty application,
requested by one or more faculty members for the purpose of being
taught and
used in class. Primary support for this application is provided by
the instructor(s) who requested it. Support by Systems Labs consultants
is limited to opening, saving, printing, and the information on this
page. Questions should be directed to your instructor. Additional
support is provided through use of the electronic manual accessible
through the application's Help menu.
You are welcome to ask the consultant on duty for
assistance, but please recognize that s/he has not been trained on
this application and may not be able to adequately answer your question
or solve your problem.
Printing Graphics:
Recent upgrades allow the lab printers to handle
most print jobs and encoding methods without a problem. This means
that fewer print settings need to be checked or changed before sending
jobs from Adobe Applications.
However, some problems may still come up when using
binary-encoded EPS graphics. If you are using binary-encoded EPS
graphics and you are having a printing problem, we recommend you
switch your graphic format to JPEGs, GIFs, TIFFs, or ASCII or JPEG-encoded
EPS graphics.
To translate graphics from EPS, open
them in Photoshop, use the Save As option from the File menu to save
them in a recommended format, and then re-import them
into the
InDesign
document. Because the files will have different file type extensions,
this process will create a new file and will not affect the original
EPS graphic.
If you prefer to use binary-encoded graphics, you can still print
by exporting your InDesign file as a PDF and printing it with Adobe
Reader. In InDesign, select Export from the File menu and export
a copy of the file in the Adobe PDF format.
Open the PDF file in Adobe Acrobat and select Print. In the print
window, click the "Advanced..." button and check the box
labeled "Print
as Image." Click OK and print the file. Be
advised that although this method should work, it may take significantly
longer for the pages to spool to the printer.
Printing Special Characters:
InDesign occasionally does not properly print special
characters, such as curved apostrophes. If you notice this problem
in your document, choose the Graphics options from the Print options
box and check the Download PPD Fonts box.
If you experience a software issue that is not reflected
on this page, please report
it to the consultant at the helpdesk.
