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Hi, there in this tutorial, you're going to learn about pre flighting, what is pre flighting is the

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process of evaluating a document for potential output issues in InDesign, so let's learn how to deal

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with it.

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While working on end design, if the software detects an error, you should be able to see it here on

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the status bar.

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If you click it, you'll see the pre-flight panel option that will get to in a minute.

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Let's find ourselves some errors for a proper understanding.

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So let's go to file and then place and locate a document that I'd like to place.

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It's a text documenting MS where doc format and when we try to place this, we get this error.

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It's a missing font error, meaning that I do not have this font installed on my computer and it gives

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me these three options.

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I like can replace the font with some other similar font that's installed on my computer, or I can

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enable this font on Adobe fonts, in which case the font will be installed on my computer.

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And lastly, I can just skip this error and see for myself what happens.

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So let's just skip this error and you'll find that my cursor is loaded with whatever text that document

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holds.

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Let's click once to have the text placed here, and immediately you'll find that the pre flight is showing

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me two errors.

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Now I can even open the pre-flight panel from window.

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So let's go to window and then output and you'll find the pre-flight option under eight, so click it

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to reveal the panel.

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Here, you can see that there are two errors listed as we saw earlier on the status bar.

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If I click the first one that says over set text, it shows a subtext.

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So let's double click on it and you'll find the text frame get selected.

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What is the problem?

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Well, you see there Red Plus button here.

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It's a way of InDesign telling us that there is more text that could not be accommodated into this text

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frame, hence this error.

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The moment we click the Red Plus button to lower the cursor with the rest of the text, the error vanishes.

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And if I click the pasteboard to drop the text, you'll find that it still shows only one error.

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That's because whatever is on the pasteboard doesn't get printed.

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So, yes, the additional text has been taken away from the frame on the document.

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Now, as long as you don't pasted back onto a proper document, InDesign does not concern itself with

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what happens to the text.

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So let's delete the text frame on the pasteboard and the error shall return.

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We'll come back to this problem in a minute.

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Meanwhile, let's check error number two.

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We know the second error is the missing font, and that's the reason why the text has a pink highlighter

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all around.

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Let's do a command a on a Mac or control a on a p c to select all.

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Now, go to fonts and pick a font of your choice.

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I'll pick a real narrow.

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And there you go.

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At least one error is solved permanently.

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And you shall also find that the moment you change the font, the pink highlighter will also vanish

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instantly.

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Let's open the pages panel and let's add a few pages to our document.

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Now let's go to the first page and click their red button to load our case with the rest of the text.

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Now, double click the page to thumbnail.

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If I straightaway click the corner of Page two, you'll find my text will not flow into other pages,

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but will stop at Page two and the error will also persist.

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And that's not what I want.

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So let's do a Command Z on a Mac or Control Z on a PC to undo the last action.

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This time, let's hold shift and then click the corner of Page two and see what happens.

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And you see how the text flows all the way to Page four.

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And the best part is that now my document does not have any errors.

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Now, if I go to Page four from the page's thumbnail and click the text frame on Page four and hit Delete,

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you'll find that the error returns.

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It's like a security mechanism of InDesign that assumes you must have deleted it accidentally, and

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so it tries to save you from a sorry situation that might occur.

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So what it does is the moment you delete the text frame of Page four, it pushes all the text back to

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the previous page and triggers the error.

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But what if you really wanted to delete the last portion of the text?

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Let's have it back.

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First, let's click the red button and then click the corner of Page four to get the text.

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Now, double click the frame on Page four so that you're able to type in or highlight the text with

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the text highlighted.

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Hit the delete key or the backspace key.

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And this time this text will be gone for good and there won't be any error as well.

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You can confirm this from the pre-flight panel that it is not showing any error of any kind now.

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So basically, pre flighting helps you monitor your documents as you're working to prevent problems

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from occurring and helps you in the long run.

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So do keep an eye on these errors and ensure to remove them before sending your work to the client.

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All right, guys, that is all for now.

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I hope you've enjoyed the session so you can take a coffee break and I shall see you in the next one.

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Goodbye.