Bleed Corrections and Font Transfer to FTP 1

[coppersnowboarder]

I finished doing lay-outs for a book using InDesign.
This is my first experience writing applying InDesign and tranferring a document to a print shop in Adobe PDF.

The print shop contacted me to inform me that neither my 1/8 inch bleeds nor my font commands were transferred to them when I copied my InDesign file into the high printer quality Adobe PDF file. Now, I am really confused and received no instructions from the print shop on how to correct the problems.

1] Since it is my first experience creating a Master, it is possible that I did not set the Bleed dimensions correctly. If that is the case, then I hope there is a way to change all of the masters with a universal stroke.

2] I did bleed each of my photograph lay-outs over the page frames by 1/8 inch. The overlaps appear in my InDesign project, but not in the PDF files.

3] I have no clue how to transfer the font information with my files.

Please give me instructions in English for dummies, since the offset printers have no clue about how to guide me.

Thank you ~

coppersnowboarder

 

[jmgalvin]

I'm assuming that you exported directly from INDD rather than distilling the thing in Acrobat. The setting for professional printing is Press quality.

The will embed all fonts in the pdf.

Under the marks and bleeds section of the pdf export window, check "use document bleed" in the bleed and slug area. I would suggest that you also check "All printer marks". That shows the bleed marks and more.

After you make the pdf, open it in Acrobat or Reader and go to File menu/Document properties. Under Fonts make sure that all you used are there and are noted as embedded.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[coppersnowboarder]

Apparently, I needed to pull down Preflight from the File Menu. Then, I saved all of my font files, which InDesign software should make an automatic process when it creates my lay-out file package. Instead, I had to send each of the font files separately to my printer company. Then, I had to perform all of the identical work to send my cover fonts. InDesign has wasted half-day of my life.

 

[coppersnowboarder]

The font files also gave me a headache. Font files are saved into my computer as .eps files. Who ever knew???
I searched quite a while to find the font files, since I expected them to appear as Adobe files because I am working with Adobe software. I am guessing that the answers to these and other mysteries will be found in Chapter 23, Printing and Other Output Techniques, in InDesign CS2 for Dummies or Chapter 16, Printing, in Adobe InDesign CS2 User Guide.

 

[jmgalvin]

Font files are not part of sending a press quality pdf. The font is embedded in the pdf as are any images.

You only package (File menu/Package)up an Indesign doc when you're sending that to the printer. Packaging copies all used fonts to a fonts folder in the ID package folder (whatever you name it) along with all images to a links folder. The fonts are not in eps format.

Preflighting is used to see if there are any goofs in the document so they can be corrected. That's considered a good thing.

All high grade page layout programs, like Quark, Framemeker or Pagemaker, work in the same general way - and they are not simple. They are far more involved than something like a word processor.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4