InDesign workshop

InDesign CS5 workshop

Open new document

Bleed No white lines etc when cutting out

Standard bleed amount 3mm

Facing pages- DPS (double page spread)

will it be bound as a book?

Always apply colour in a frame or something contained in a frame

Swatches palette similar to illustrator

You can add swatch colours created in illustrator and photoshop

Swatches palette

Can change the tint- Just change the percentage

New tint swatch

Can't change the percentage of CMYK just the percentage of the tint

As soon as you enter colour value it will change from process colour to spot colour

Click over something and hold the alt key and drag to duplicate

Windows- output- Separations preview

5 printing plates

Printed on acetate to see how it will print- like screen printing

Print options

Set up- page position- Centred

Marks and bleed- Crop marks

Registration marks(again like screen printing)

Page information- Need to know which one will print Cyan, Magenta etc

To print colour separations

Output-Colour composite CMYK change to separations

Click on the small colour box to chose which colours to print

Will print a 5 page document Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key and the spot colour

Can now be used for printing plates or screen printing

Swatch Palette- select all unused

Reference number and colour will be printed at the bottom of the page

Halft tone screen, image tiny dots

Window- output- Attributes- overprint fill

Trapping

Look for the lightest colour apply stroke to type same colour as background

Attributes palette- Overprint