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• • June 13, 2011 at 2:49 am #59843
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    Hello everyone,

    I'd like to print out a book created in Indesign and exported into PDF document. Could you advise me how I could print just the text without the background images which are tiff formats??? I see the option OPI in the export PDF window and if I turn on Bitmap images options all the pages goes solid black in the PDF doc (because each page contains tiff background mage).

    How can I solve that issue???

    Thank you in advance.

    Best,

  • June 14, 2011 at 10:54 am #59853
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    hi again… It seems no one knows how to deal with that!?!? Strange…

    I hope someone could help me.

    All the Best,

  • June 14, 2011 at 12:44 pm #59854
    jdwires

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    I think you'll have to export the book from indesign using the OPI settings to remove the background images and then print the PDF.

    If you have all of you background images on a separate layer, you can export your PDF to Acrobat version 6 or newer and check the box that says “creat acrobat layers”. Then you can hide the layer in Acrobat and print. :)

    Hope that helps!

    Joel

  • June 14, 2011 at 1:15 pm #59855
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    jdwires said:

    I think you'll have to export the book from indesign using the OPI settings to remove the background images and then print the PDF.

    If you have all of you background images on a separate layer, you can export your PDF to Acrobat version 6 or newer and check the box that says “creat acrobat layers”. Then you can hide the layer in Acrobat and print. :)

    Hope that helps!

    Joel

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    hi Joel,

    It's very kind of you that you gave me your advice! Thank you very much!

    When I export the book from Indesign I check the box for omit the bitmap image in the OPI settings. What I get is solid black pages in the PDF document and if I print them out that black background is on the printouts. So using OPI settings doesn't work on that way!?

    My background images are placed into the master pages. Is that mean they are on a seperate layers?! I guess no…

    Please help me… : )

    Best,

    M.

  • June 15, 2011 at 9:35 am #59858
    jdwires

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    Just because they are on the master pages does not mean that they are on separate layers. It will be a bit easier to put them on a background layer because they are on the master pages. Give this a try.

    1. Open the layers panel.
    2. Create a new layer named Background and drag it under the existing layer or layers.
    3. for each master page, select the background image and in the layers panel drag the little colored box next to the layer name down to the background layer. This should move the selected image to the background layer.
    4. after you've moved all your background image to a new layer you can show or hide the background layer. So, from indesign, you can either export two PDFs, one with the layer hidden, one with it visible in, or just export one file with acrobat layers (see my first response).

    Hope it's not too much extra work for you. Enjoy!

    Joel

  • June 15, 2011 at 2:10 pm #59862
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    Hey Joel,

    Thanks a LOT for your help!

    I will give it a try and let you know the result. :)

    What I have to do to hide layers in Acrobat?

    Warm regards,

    M.

  • June 16, 2011 at 4:17 am #59863
    Hopsa Rijnen

    Member

    A fun thing to use is the FREE Layerlifter plug-in from Rorohiko:

    https://www.rorohiko.com/wordpr…..yerlifter/

    have fun ;-) and good luck

  • June 17, 2011 at 12:41 pm #59876
    jdwires

    Member

    Just look at the tools on the left (in the navigation pane) for the layers button (looks like two overlapping diamonds).

    Enjoy!

    Joel

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