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For our final lesson about Adobe InDesign, I've opened backup the basic InDesign file that we've been working with here. You'll find that again in your work files folder. And now I talked before about links - about how this image is not really stored in the InDesign file. It is only a link that is stored in InDesign file. So you can imagine if you send this InDesign file over to your printer they won't have not only your image but any fonts that you used or logos or anything else. So you need to be very careful about this next segment that we're talking about here - about pre-flight and packaging, getting things ready for print. The way that we do that is by going to the file menu. We have two options here that are really key to using InDesign effectively for output. First of all, we have pre-flight. What pre-flight is, is this check that goes through and looks for potential problems throughout our InDesign document. You can see all these different categories of areas that are potential problems. If you have a missing font, for example. You will not be able to send that on to your printer and it won't print correctly. Notice over here that it says protected. Some font will not allow you to embed them or package them for print. They might be Copywrite protected. We talked in the Illustrator segment about the legality of font issues. It's huge. We also have links and images, colors and inks. If your going to print your going to want your image to be in the CMYK mode and not in RGB. You'll notice as we go to summary, one of our warnings is that one RGB image is here, and that's this image here. The photo that we are using is in the RGB or red, green and blue color space. And to print we typically want to use the CMYK, especially for a professional print work flow. If we are going to make color separations and other advanced concepts, we want that to be in CMYK mode or Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. If we get a bunch of errors we could even generate a report here. I'm going to cancel that and go to the file menu again. And this time I'm going to select package. And what I'm going to do is ignore this dialogue box temporarily. So it's saying, "are you sure you want to do that. We have some problems with pre-flight." I'm just going to select continue just for a second. And I want to explain what this dialogue box is going to do. You see, what we can do with our InDesign document is package this up so that it makes a zip file that bundles our fonts, images, everything that the printer is going to need to print this file correctly is going to be bundled in one handy dandy zip file. And when you go ahead and do that by hitting file package, it performs a pre-flight function automatically. So you don't necessarily have to do it in two steps. You can just select package and it will automatically pre-flight for you. Likewise if you go to file pre-flight, it will also do your pre-flight stuff. But once you get everything approved, and everything looks like it's going to print ok and there's no more warnings or problems, you can go ahead and hit package from this dialogue box as well. So phonetically, pre-flight, package, they both start with the letter P. You might confuse them at some point. But it's ok. You can get both from either. So you can get package from pre-flight and pre-flight from package. So that is how to get your package of InDesign stuff out to your printer and have that print work our correctly.