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December 10, 2016
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Export PDF dialog box

  • December 10, 2016
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According to one of the support pages (specifically, Use Adobe PDF options to export to PDF in InDesign), I'm supposed to be able to select a range of pages (from a long book) to be exported as a PDF using something called the Export Adobe PDF dialog box. However. the support page provides no information about where or how to access this particular dialog box -- and I can't find it.

I've found File > Adobe PDF Presets, but that's not the right box. That box doesn't provide an option for changing the page range of a PDF export.

All I want to do is do a temp export of pages 6 to 9 of a novel so I can look at the layout. How do I do that?

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    Correct answer MIDI Guru

    According to the online documentation for the Range value in that box: "This option is unavailable when you’re exporting books or creating presets."

    I'm baffled. What's the difference whether I'm exporting a book? Why should I have to export the whole project if it's a book? How does InDesign even _know_ that my project is a book? Anything could be a book! Or not.


    Okay, I've got it now. The steps are: When defining a section (in order to do custom page numbering) I need to give it a prefix (such as "txt"). Once I have done that, I can proceed _through_ the system file save dialog back to the InDesign dialog, which will now let me define a range to export using txt6-txt9 (or whatever range).

    Thanks for your patience.

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    barbara_a7746676
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    barbara_a7746676Community Expert
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    December 10, 2016

    Choose File > Export.

    Select Range.

    MIDI Guru
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    Inspiring
    December 10, 2016

    Sorry, but that doesn't work for me. In the File menu I have an Export... command, but it takes me directly to a file dialog box for my system. (I tried that already.) It doesn't show the big handsome box in your screen shot.

    I'm in Windows 7, which shouldn't make a difference, but might.

    Derek Cross
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    Derek CrossCommunity Expert
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    December 10, 2016

    Select one of the presets (such as HIgh Quailty Print, as illustrated in Barbara's excellent screen shot) in the Acrobat PDF Presets drop down menu and it should take you to this dialogue box.

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