Chapter 44. Exporting EPS and PDF

Sometimes you need to use one or more InDesign pages in another application and you want to save the pages as a graphic. To do this in QuarkXPress or PageMaker, you would save the page as an Encapsulated PostScript file (EPS). InDesign lets you save pages as EPS, but it also lets you save in the more robust PDF format. We cover exporting to these file formats in this chapter.

Export as EPS

Exporting to EPS is quite simple. You can choose Export from the File menu, and then select EPS from the Formats popup menu, give the file a name, and let InDesign do the work. But, like most other things, there are options you can select.

There are two panels of options to control how InDesign saves your EPS file. The General ...

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