Recently my studio changed printer, and this new firm wants us to convert all text to outlines when sending PDFs to them. While for flyers it’s fairly straight forward, when dealing with magazines, i.e. long multipage documents, using the Convert to Outlines option from InDesign can be quite daunting.
Luckily I came across a handy article about how to convert text to outlines in InDesign on InDesign Secrets. As David Blatner says:
Here’s the whole tip in a nutshell: Don’t use Convert to Outlines at all. Instead, use InDesign’s transparency flattener to convert the text automatically for you when you export a PDF.
I encourage you to read the rest of the article to see how to go about that. It’s a very nice tip that will make you save a lot of time!
