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Troubleshooting Errors and Exporting Files in InDesign: A Step-by-Step Guide

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This InDesign tutorial walks through troubleshooting errors and exporting files in indesign, covering essential tools and techniques for your projects.

In this video, we're going to be exporting our file. Before doing so, however, we're going to want to go to the bottom and right here where we see the red dot or green dot, we'll see that we have two errors.

If we double click the two errors, we'll see that we have preflight come up. For our preflight, this is going to show us errors that we may not want to export or may want to resolve before exporting. In this case, we have two occurrences of overset text and depending on your file, you may have other issues to work through.

So let's click page nine to see where we have the overset text. In this case, it brings us right to the text frame. And if we drag it below, we can see what's going on.

And right here we have Montgomery College and we simply miss the second line. This is relatively common that we'll miss something, which is why preflight exists. In this case, I'm simply going to extend it out and then right clicking and selecting select.

I'll select the next object below and drag this out as well, holding shift. And we've now fixed that issue. Next, let's go to page 12.

Here, we also have overset text. So let's extend the text frame to see what's going on. And it looks like we're simply missing an empty row.

This is a relatively easy fix. We'll select the row, right click and select delete row. Here, we've now fixed everything on preflight and we're ready to export.

So, from here, we're going to go to file, export, and we're going to save this as an adobe pdf print. Let's save. And from here, we have a couple different options, including press quality, which will be high quality and give you the best printing quality.

In this case, however, we're simply going to select high quality printing. We'll make sure that we have all pages and let's click export. We'll see that InDesign is working to export it.

And it's now finished. We've now completed our InDesign project and our proposal. Well done.

And with this pdf file, please submit this as your InDesign final project. It isn't necessary to submit your InDesign project. Simply upload the pdf that we've just exported.

Let's save our work, hitting control s on the keyboard. And I hope you've enjoyed this course and are excited about the opportunities that InDesign will bring to you in your career. Thank you for taking this course and I look forward to the potential of seeing you in another Adobe course.