Adobe InDesign CS3 - Manual (Page 561)

INDESIGN CS3
User Guide
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Tile a document manually
While tiling a document automatically prints all the tiles at once, tiling a document manually requires you to print
each tile separately.
1 If necessary, choose View > Show Rulers to display the rulers.
2 Drag the intersection of the rulers to reset the zero point to the desired upper-left corner of the tile you want to
print. Remember to leave room for overlap and printer’s marks.
The size and shape of the area InDesign prints is determined by the current paper size and orientation.
3 Choose File > Print, and then click Setup on the left.
4 In the Setup area, select Tile, and then choose Manual in the Tile menu.
Scale documents
To fit an oversized document on a smaller piece of paper, you can scale the document’s width and height, either
symmetrically or asymmetrically. Asymmetric scaling is useful when, for example, you’re printing film for use on a
flexographic press: If you know in which direction the plate will be mounted on the press drum, scaling can
compensate for the 2% to 3% stretching of the plate that usually occurs. Scaling does not affect the size of the pages
in the document.
Note: When you print spreads, each spread is scaled separately.
Scale a document manually
1 Choose File > Print.
2 In the Setup area of the Print dialog box, select Width to activate the Width and Height boxes.
3 To maintain current document width to height proportions, select Constrain Proportions. Otherwise, make sure
that this option is unselected.
4 Type percentages from 1 to 1000 in the Width and Height boxes. If you selected Constrain Proportions, you need
to enter only one value; the other is updated automatically.
Scale a document automatically
1 In the Setup area of the Print dialog box, make sure that the Tile and Thumbnail options are unselected. (When
these options are selected, the Scale To Fit option is unavailable.)
2 Select Scale To Fit. The scaling percentage, which is determined by the imageable area defined by the selected
PPD, appears next to the Scale To Fit option.
Printing in color
Color output options for composites
In the Output area of the Print dialog box, you can determine how composite color in the document is sent to the
printer. When color management is enabled (the default), the Color setting defaults result in calibrated color output.
Spot color information is preserved during color conversion; only the process color equivalents convert to the desig-
nated color space. If you’re not sure which color choice to use, consult your prepress service provider.
Composite modes only affect rasterized images and objects created using InDesign; placed graphics (such as EPS
and Adobe PDF files) are not affected unless they overlap transparent objects.