PDF for print?? help please!

I have an indesign document that i was to have as a pdf to send to the print house for print ....





im designing it as a 2 color document (im not even sure if i did that righjt)


anyway - they told be that i need to give them a color seperated PDF How do i do this?





ALSO - how do i set it for full bleed?








PLEASE HELP ME :(

[D-Zine]

Humm...I am not sure about InDesign but when you do it in Quark, you set your job options for Distiller to seperate the file (I can't remember exactly what it says in the options but you can set the options for 1 file or 4 I think..you want 4), leave distiller running in the background and after it makes the PS file, distiller (with whatever job options you specify) will make the PDF. Did that make any sense to you? Ugh...I could explain better if I had Distiller at home but its at the office....and not on this computer. Sorry! I hope that helped some.

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[Gavin Joule]

Welcome Justin,

Firstly what version of ID are you using. I have just migrated from Quark to InDesign CS which is ver3.



This is what I would do in 3, maybe different for you, if you are using Distiller etc.



Firstly bleed, When you set up a new document it asks you what bleed you want, in Europe its normal to use 3mm. If in doubt ask your printer.

(the other measurement is 'slug' which I would set to 30mm, it's basically an area outside the bleed, but again check with your printer)



InDesign has many pdf settings, the best would be 'Press' as this is a high resolution setting, however my understanding is that it creates a CMYK file, but it should retain your spot colours.



I am assuming that your printer wants pdf's because he doesn't have ID? I normally send a test file to all new suppliers before I start a job, that way the responsibility is shared, and time often saved.



Saying that though I recently submitted a job to a clients printer after checking they could use Illustrator files and found out they had Ver7... nice!



Ask some more questions if I didn't hit the nail on the head...

[dbneeley]

In case others need the answer to this...InDesign allows the creation of additional layers for the spot colors. You export to a Print-style pdf with each layer as a color. The program will do the CMYK layers, which if you're using two spot colors will be blank.

You can then delete the blank CMYK pages from the pdf using Acrobat, leaving the separated spot colors.

Or, you can do each spot color as one of the CMYK values, and identify to the printer which one is *really* your chosen spot color. This can get confusing at the design stage, however...

David