InDesign for QuarkXPress Users [Electronic resources] نسخه متنی

General Options

There are two panels of options to control how InDesign saves your EPS file. The General panel provides many of the same selections as on XPress's Save Page as EPS tab (see Figure 98-1).

An EPS file can only contain one page. However, while QuarkXPress will only let you export one page at a time, InDesign lets you specify a range of pages. For example, if you choose to name your EPS file, "Lightness of Beans.EPS," and there are ten pages in your document, InDesign creates ten EPS documents, appending the page number to each name. If you have created multipage spread, you can check Spreads, and a single EPS file will be created for each spread.

There is no Scaling option as there is in QuarkXPress. Of course, any EPS file can be scaled when you place it, or when being rasterized in Photoshop.

Format Settings

An EPS file contains both the high-resolution data for the printer and a screen preview. The high-resolution information can be written either for a PostScript Level 2 or Level 3 printer. For Color, there are four choices: CMYK is usually the best choice for print. You can also select RGB (though it's rare you'd need it), Gray to turn color to gray values, or Device Independent if you have enabled color management.

The ability to embed fonts in an EPS file is something many XPress users have requested for years. You can set InDesign's Embed Fonts popup menu to Complete (entirely embedded), Subset (to get only the font characters you actually used), or not included. For Data Format, you can write the EPS as Binary (more compact and faster) or ASCII (slower, but required by some older networks and printers).

The preview of an EPS file can be TIFF (best for cross-platform use), PICT (only available on a Macintosh), or None. The latter choice might be useful if you're rasterizing the EPS in Photoshop or re-importing the EPS file back into an InDesign document.

Note that InDesign does not let you export in the DCS or DCS 2.0 formats, but these formats don't support composite workflows or transparency. All EPS files open in Photoshop with a transparent background so there is no need for QuarkXPress's Transparent Page option.

Bleed

The Bleed section of the General panel specifies whether the EPS is cut off at the page boundaries or includes objects within a bleed area. You can enter a Bleed amount for each side of the page of up to 6 inches.