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The final option for printing we're going to look at is exporting your own high resolution PDF file. Now, some people like to send their files out like we did in the last movie and have the printer check everything. If you're doing your own PDF file, it really does put the onus on you to get it right. I like to do it this way because I just feel there's too much room for error, somebody clicking the wrong button if they open your source file. However, when you do your own high resolution PDF, any mistakes are yours, so check your document carefully. As we did in the previous movie, go through your pre-flight. Pre-flight the document. Look for RGB color images and then change them. As we did in the last movie, I'm going to ignore them. The other thing that's important is make sure that all your links are in order. You can go from the window menu, choose links. If there's a problem here, here's one that hasn't been updated. We can choose like that. Automatically updates it and check that everything is in order. I'll close that out. We've got that good. Another important thing, make sure you've got bleeds. If we go into the document set-up here, you can see that I have set up bleed for 1/8" here. If I go down and choose, instead of choosing preview mode, choose bleed mode, it shows that extra bleed area. Now, I've got to look for areas that I need to bleed and that's where the image comes off the edge of the page and when it gets printed, when they trim it, what way it'll look as if it is. You can't just go exactly to the edge of the page like this and have it printed because no printer can trim it exactly. This is a bad example, as this side backs onto the back page, but if I come down to the bottom, I need to bleed off the bottom, like this. I've got a bleed over here. Let's go to our other documents here. This one here, it needs to bleed down to the bottom, so I'll correct it. Now, there is no image there, so I'm going to have to create it. I'll hold down the Ctrl or command key and that stretches my image a little bit. It changes it. It's not too important in this particular image. Scroll over there. Anything that goes off the edge, make sure you have that bleed there. This one here doesn't go off the edge, but the nature of it is not going to make too much of a difference if it gets trimmed or not, so I'm going to let that one go. Again, it's experience and what needs a bleed and what doesn't. Here we've got this one. Definitely needs the bleed. If I drag it off like that, I can see there's no image, so that's not going to work. I'll have to hold down the control or the command key and stretch it a little bit. Now, I'm actually distorting the shape of the image, but because it's a background image like this, it doesn't really matter. I can get away with it. If it were a logo, I wouldn't risk anything like that because the distortion wouldn't look good. So I've pre-flighted my document. I've made sure my fonts and images are correct. All my links are updated, ready to go. I've got bleeds in every page, so now I'm ready to create a high resolution PDF file. [00:03:25