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Printing and exporting a PDF - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2025 Essential Training
Printing and exporting a PDF
- [Instructor] An InDesign document by itself is fun to look at, but ultimately, you're going to want to print it, or export it out as a PDF so that other people can view it or print it. But before we print or export this file, let's see how it's going to look by jumping into preview mode. You can do that by pressing the W key on your keyboard, as long as you don't have your text cursor in a text frame, of course. And this is great because preview mode hides all the non-printing objects, like guides, and any objects that are hanging off the side of the page onto the paste board get clipped at the page edge. So, this is what the final page is going to look like when you print or export to PDF. Now, you can actually select objects and even work on the document while in preview mode, or you can just press the W key again to jump out of preview mode. Now we're in the normal screen mode. Okay, now everyone knows that to print, you go to the file menu, and then choose print. But this…
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