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• Do some housecleaning before submitting the job: prune extraneous elements, empty frames, and unused styles and swatches • Communicate any special circumstances, including custom-finishing such as embossing, foil-stamping, spot varnishes, complicated folding, or custom binding. Preparing files containing transparency For a detailed resource on imaging files containing transparency, see "Transparency in Adobe Applications: A Print Production Guide" (http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_transparency_print_en). The transparency guide is useful for you as a print service provider, and can also serve as a very helpful reference for your customers as they prepare their files. Here are some general guidelines: • Don't flatten transparency unnecessarily or prematurely. Keeping transparency live means that you can take advantage of more modern workflows such as those using the Adobe PDF Print Engine. Thus, don't flatten Photoshop files-keep layers intact. Save Illustrator files as native Illustrator (.ai) rather than as EPS files. • Don't use transparency unnecessarily: for example, to create a 20% black tint, don't apply 20% opacity to a solid black frame; instead, create and apply a swatch that's a 20% tint of black. • If possible, place text at the top of stacking order, or on a top layer, to eliminate any possibility that type will be converted to outlines during transparency flattening. For more on handling transparency in customer files, see "Common Resources" chapter in this document. Packaging a Job In previous versions of InDesign, activating the Package function would automatically perform a preflight. Now that Preflight is dynamic, the Package function does not perform preflight as a separate operation; it just displays the current results of preflighting in the Package dialog. This series of screens will look familiar to users of earlier versions: they are the same screens as seen in Preflight in previous versions of InDesign. To use the Package function, choose File > Package. InDesign displays a summary overview describing the state of the document, incorporating any problems that have been found by Preflight. Any problems are highlighted with yellow alert triangles. To see more detail for each topic, select from the list in the left column of the Package dialog box. The Summary screen provides a quick overview of potential issues you might wish to resolve before packaging the job. Summary Screen The Summary screen displays an overview of the file's attributes, highlighting problem areas with yellow alert triangles. Click a topic name to see more detail on that topic. The Fonts screen lists fonts used in the document (including fonts needed by placed artwork), and identifies font formats used (such as OpenType, TrueType, or Type 1) and their status (OK, Missing, or Protected). Select a font name from the list, and the Current Font area displays the directory path to the font file itself, and indicates the page on which the font is first used. Adobe Creative Suite 4 Printing Guide 51