Chapter 11& 12

When you place and image in InD, you can choose and image by using command + d on the keyboard or selecting place from the options menu.  When you place an image, you are putting it in your InD file at its original size, but using the tools in InD, you can scale the image to the size that works in your design.  When you drag and drop an image or file into an InD, you can pull a file from the desktop, internet or even a USB or other outside device.  By dragging and dropping a file, it is placed directly into InD and is just a quicker way to place a file.  When there is a missing or modified link in a file, a picture, font or other some other part of the file is missing.  You can avoid this situation by packaging a file so that all the parts of the design are included.  When you transform an image in InD, you are scaling the size of an image.  This is not always a good thing because when you scale an image, you risk loosing or distorting pixels in the image.  When you use a drop shadow in a design, you are adding a shadow being an image, font or other part of your layout.  Drop shadows add emphasis on something in the design and help the viewers attention switch to whatever element has the drop shadow.  You should always produce your own swatches in your designs so that you know you are getting the exact color you want.  Swatches are in the directory panel of InD and a design can hold as many swatches as necessary for the design.  The main purpose of ink manager is to correct spot colors so that the desired color is reached.  When you get a PDF from a InD file, you export the file.  By exporting the file, you make it to where nothing in your design can be change and generally the PDF can be opened on all computers.  Any computer that holds a seat on Adobe software can open a PDF file.  When you choose the features of the settings you decide what kind of PDF file you are creating.  For example, you can develop a High Quality PDF or a Print Quality PDF depending on what you intend to do with the file.  A PDFX - 1a is the best file type if you are not completely sure of what you plan on doing with your file.  It is the easiest file to manipulate and can be opened by most computers.  When you use Acrobat Distiller you are generating a PostScript file to an PDF file.  You are required to use distiller on a file if you have a file that can  not be exported.  Once a PDF file is exported, you can not edit it.  You can place the PDF file in Illustrator and pull parts out of the file that can be incorporated into a new design, but, once a file is saved as a PDF, changes can not be made to that particular file.  The changes have to be made through the InD file.