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Graphics (page 91). Options for downloading fonts and graphics, and the PostScript
language data format.
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Color Management (page 94). Options when using a color-managed workflow.
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Advanced (page 96). Options such as OPI image replacement and transparency flattener
presets.
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Summary (page 98). Report of all output settings, which you can save to disk as a text file.
Print settings are independently maintained for each document. This is so each open docu-
ment can preserve its own settings.
Common areas
In the Print dialog box, the only area that changes is the section containing options specific
to each panel. All other sections of the Print dialog box are common areas which remain
visible regardless of which panel you are viewing. In the interest of consistency, options that
don't apply in a certain workflow are dimmed, not removed. If an option is dimmed but its
label is not dimmed, the option does apply but can't be changed.
P r i n t e r P r e s e t , P r i n t e r, a n d PPD m e n u s
The Printer Preset, Printer, and PPD menus are at the top of the Print dialog box because
they set the context for the controls in the rest of the Print dialog box. The three menus are
interdependent and should be set from the top down.
Printer Preset. Printer, and PPD menus set up the overall printing environment.
The Printer Preset menu at the very top of the dialog box can change any or all print options
by applying saved settings that you can customize.
The Printer and PPD menus set up how PostScript is written. InDesign CS can output
PostScript that is specific to or independent of PostScript drivers or devices. For more
information, see "Setting up PostScript output paths" on page 69.
The Printer menu lets you choose from PostScript File or any of the printers set up in the
operating system.
The PPD menu choices are determined by the current Printer menu setting. Specifically,
if you have a PostScript printer selected in the Printer menu, the PPD menu will display,
dimmed, the PPD that was set up with that printer by the printer driver (through the Add
Printer wizard in Windows or Print Center in Mac OS X). This guards against assigning a
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