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When you open the Separations panel
and choose View > Overprint
Preview, InDesign displays a real-time
ink reading of the area beneath your
cursor. Click the visibility icons in the
le column to hide or show individual
color plates.
InDesign oers an array of options
for outpuing your projects,
whether you plan to print your
InDesign le or distribute it on the
web, consumer electronic devices,
or phones. However, before you
export or print your document, use
the InDesign preight and proong
tools to help ensure the nal result
will appear as you expect.
To see an accurate view of what
document pages will look like
when printed or exported as ,
choose View > Screen Mode >
Preview (or press W when not edit-
ing text). is hides nonprinting
page elements such as guides, the
pasteboard, and frame edges.
You can hide the InDesign user
interface entirely, including menus
and panels, by choosing View >
Screen Mode > Presentation (or
pressing Shi+W). is is a helpful
display mode when showing a
client or colleague your work.
If you choose View > Over-
print Preview, InDesign displays
an onscreen “ink preview” that
approximates how gradients, trans-
parency, and overprinting will
appear in color-separated output.
e Separations Preview panel
(Window > Output > Separations
Preview) lets you visually check
individual or multiple plates, pre-
view overprinting objects, and view
ink-limit warnings onscreen before
printing.
e Preight panel (Window >
Output > Preight) can warn you of
problems that may prevent a docu-
ment or book from printing cor-
rectly. Preighting is “live”—that is,
when it is enabled, InDesign checks
your document while you work,
and displays a green or red dot in
both the lower le corner of the
panel and the document window.
You can control what the Preight
panel considers an error by choos-
ing Dene Proles from the Pre-
ight panel menu. Options include
minimum image resolution, color
model limitations, document size,
and more. Aer creating a new
preight prole, you can choose it
from the Prole menu in the Pre-
ight panel.
Note that when you select an error,
the Info area at the boom of the
panel provides more details.
If you are including interactive ele-
ments in your document, such as
animations, you can see them in
action inside the Preview panel
(Window > Interactive > Preview).
Preight and proong
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