Non-printing layers printing

If you're exporting to PDF from InDesign, make sure you don't select "Export Layers: All" under the options section as this will show non printing layers in your PDF.

Got it, thanks.

Oh sorry, I realised my original post is slightly confusing. It should say 'I'm having trouble with layers set to non-printing when printing from InDesign or making a PDF'

No that's not what I said. PDF is recommended for printing.  Never create a PDF file from InDesign by printing to the Adobe PDF printer.

Ah... So you want this to be a design-time thing rather than a thing that remains in the PDF... I'll leave that to others who know InDesign better then. But I notice a reference to printing to PDF. The consensus is, for InDesign ... NEVER do that.

The layers palette doesn't show the original layers I created because I didn't ask it to create individual layers? I don't see how this would help the situation though? Annoyingly I can't try it again because the error isn't happening now.

Don't open in those other programs! No guarantee they know anything about layers. Please tell us what you see in the layers palette in Acrobat. If you don't know how to show it, just let us know.

Also I'm not sure it is necessarily about Acrobat, I've tried opening the file in other programmes, Illustrator, Photoshop etc, and the type isn't there.

Does the Acrobat layers palette show the original layers you created, and does making them invisible inside Acrobat show the result you expect?

Ah yes sorry, it is indeed 'Adobe Acrobat'.