Adobe InDesign CC 2015 - Manual (Page 545)

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Exporting and publishing
Last updated 6/6/2015
When you select the Adobe PDF (Print) option, you cannot include interactive elements in the PDF. To export an
interactive document to PDF, see
Create interactive documents for PDF .
4 Do one of the following:
• To use a predefined set of job options, choose a preset from the Adobe PDF Preset menu.
• To create a PDF/X file, either choose a PDF/X preset from the Adobe PDF Preset menu, or choose a predefined
PDF/X format from the Standard menu.
• To customize options, select a category from the list on the left and then set the options.
5 For Compatibility, choose the lowest PDF version necessary to open the files you create.
6 Click Export (Windows) or Save (Mac OS).
To reset options to the default, in the Export Adobe PDF dialog box, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS)
and click Reset. (The Cancel button changes to Reset.)
Prepare layers before exporting a book to PDF
When you export a book to PDF, you can show and hide InDesign layers in the PDF document. To avoid duplication
of layer names in the PDF, you can merge the layers on export.
If the Merge Identically Named Layers On Export option is selected, layer names appear under the same book name in
Acrobat or Reader. If this option is not selected, layer names appear separately under each document name.
1 If you don’t want certain layers to be merged, give them unique names in each book document.
Layer names are case-sensitive, so “Art” and “art” layers are not merged.
2 In the Book panel menu, select Merge Identically Named Layers On Export.
Note: When you export the book to PDF, make sure that Create Acrobat Layers is selected. To select this option, you
must use Acrobat 6 (PDF 1.5) or later compatibility.
Export a book to PDF
1 Do one of the following:
• To create a PDF of the entire book, click in a blank area of the Book panel to deselect any selected documents,
and choose Export Book To PDF in the Book panel menu.
• To create a PDF of documents within a book, select the document or documents in the Book panel, and choose
Export Selected Documents To PDF in the Book panel menu.
2 Specify a name and location for the PDF file, and then click Save.
3 Either choose a preset from the Adobe PDF Preset menu, or select a category from the list on the left of the Export
Adobe PDF dialog box, and then customize the options.
4 Click Export (Windows) or Save (Mac OS).
Reducing the size of PDFs
For PDF files that are intended to be distributed for viewing purposes only, you may want to reduce the size of PDF files
when you export from InDesign. Here are some of the size reduction techniques you can use in the Export Adobe PDF
dialog box:
• Choose [Smallest File Size] from the Adobe PDF Preset menu.