Get true black out of InDesign exported PDF's

I get a lot of hits on my site about how to export true black from Adobe InDesign. The first thing to do is to look at your preferences.

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Toggle Between Preview and Normal View In InDesign

Say you're editing text and you wanted to momentarily switch from normal to preview mode (to hide bleeds etc) well if you hit the defalt "w" you end up typing a "w" which sucks especially if you forget you do it and it goes to press :(...so what I did was go into the Keyboard shortcuts dialog and assigned shift + command + F1 to toggle the views while I'm in text mode and now life is all peaches and cream.

Make single page PDF or PostScript files

These handy AppleScripts for Adobe InDesign CS will let you make individual PostScript or PDF files.

Thanks to my buddy John Dunn of Microsoft for sharing the scripts.

Matt Beals

InDesign_Scripts.zip

Avoid Screened Text in InDesign

This one is pretty basic. If you notice that you are getting screened type when you output jobs from InDesign to a compoiste printers such as a black and white copier or color printer, make sure to check "Composite Leave unchanged" in the Output section of InDesign's print dialogs. If you choose Composite (Gray, RBG, CMYK) InDesign trys to mimic how the text will look if it was printed on an offset press which tends to have a little lighter black than tonor machines.

Copy Links in InDesign

We have a lot of repeat jobs at the shop, business cards and the like. I found a quick way to copy over all the needed links into a new job folder. 1. Open the file that needs to be updated 2. Save the updated file to a new job folder 3. Open the Links pallet (WINDOW>LINKS) 4. In the Links pallet click on the small side menu (its the tiny arrow on the side of the pallet) 5. Select "Copy Links to.." from that side menu and then navigate to the new folder you created and InDesign will copy all the needed links into that folder.) Sweet!