Proper Work Flow for creating and printing to Tabloid Printer

Students using InDesign and other Adobe products should be careful when selecting the Tabloid Printer for printing a PDF. *The tabloid PAPER SIZE must be specified in Page Setup of Adobe Professional. (Step 4 & 5 below)

Proper Work Flow when using TABLOID paper size. (This example was created using Adobe InDesign)

1. Create a document for the tabloid paper size.

2. Save document as *.indd for later editing. Remember to save to your M:\ drive.

3. Export to PDF for printing. From the InDesign main menu, select File, Export...

4. Open PDF in Adobe Acrobat Professional. Make the following changes in Page Setup:

Select File, Page Setup.
Format for: Tabloid Printer
Paper Size: Tabloid
Click OK.

5. Select File, Print... (Command-P). Select the Tabloid Printer and then click on Print.