From the course: InDesign 2024 Essential Training
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Packaging and preflight for output - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2024 Essential Training
Packaging and preflight for output
- [Instructor] In an earlier chapter, I discussed how InDesign documents don't embed all of your placed images. Rather, they just link to the original files on disk. Well, that means if you're going to archive your document or you want to send it to someone else to edit or print, then you need to collect all of your linked files too. Fortunately, you don't have to go and find and copy all of those files manually. Instead, all you need to do is go to the file menu and choose Package. Oh, but wait. Before I do that, I just noticed something. Look down here at the bottom of the document window. See that red dot? That's a stop sign. That means there might be something wrong with this document. To see what it's alerting us about, let's click the little pop-up menu next to it and choose Preflight panel. Here inside this panel, you can see there is a text error, and if you click that little twirly triangle next to it, you can…
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