Choose which layers are printed or exported to pdf, Printing to non-postscript language printers, Print as bitmap – Adobe InDesign CS4 User Manual
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USING INDESIGN CS4
Printing
Choose which layers are printed or exported to PDF
1 To review or change the Show Layer and Print Layer settings for your document, select a layer in the Layers panel,
and then choose Layer Options from the panel menu. Specify layer options, and click OK.
2 Do one of the following:
•
Choose File
> Print, and click General on the left side of the Print dialog box.
•
Choose File
> Export, specify Adobe PDF, and then click Save. On the left side of the Export Adobe PDF dialog box,
select General.
3 From the Print Layers or Export Layers menu, choose which layers you want to print or include in the PDF:
All Layers
Prints or outputs all layers in your document, even if they are hidden or set as nonprinting.
Visible Layers
Prints or outputs all visible layers, even if they are set as nonprinting in Layer Options.
Visible & Printable Layers
Prints or outputs only those layers that are set as both visible and printable.
See also
Printing to non-PostScript language printers
You can print a document on a non-PostScript language printer. However, because PostScript is the standard page-
description language for professional publishing, many high-end color and graphics features, such as screen
frequencies or color separations, cannot be reproduced on non-PostScript printers. Most imported graphics file
formats print acceptably. In general, a document printed to a non-PostScript printer should look the way it appears
on-screen when you view the document using Preview Mode.
Some vendors sell software programs that add PostScript-language capability to a non-PostScript language printer.
Check with your software reseller for availability and compatibility.
Print as bitmap
When you print to a non-PostScript printer, you can choose to rasterize all artwork during printing. This option is
useful when printing documents that contain complex objects (such
as objects with smooth shading or gradients)
because it reduces the possibility of errors.
1 Choose File
> Print.
2 Select Advanced on the left side of the Print dialog box.
3 Select Print As Bitmap.
This option is available only if the printer driver identifies the printer as non-PostScript. If this option is selected for
non-PostScript printers in Mac
OS
10.3 or later, InDesign prints PostScript, which is then used by Mac
OS and the
driver to render the page images. In Windows, the high-end color and graphics features may not be converted
appropriately if this option is not selected.
4 Specify a resolution for bitmap printing.
The output resolution may be limited by the printer driver’s resolution. To get the best quality output, set the non-
PostScript printer driver resolution to be equal or greater than the output resolution specified in the InDesign Print
dialog box.
Updated 18 June 2009