Basics: To export any page or portion of a page created in Adobe InDesign or QuarkXPress as a PDF in QXP use the Export feature: Click "File," then "Export," then "Layout as PDF." Another QXP OPTION is to export the DOCUMENT as an EPS (encapsulated postscript) file. To do this, use Save Page as EPS: click "File," then "Save Page as EPS."

In InDesign, use Export: Click "File," then "Export," then SELECT "PDF" with the bottom "Format" button. Or use one of the PDF presets: click "File" then "Adobe PDF Presets" and choose a format. InDesign also allows other OPTIONS under Export, including EPS and JPEG formats.

Page Design: Do a basic page design in QXP or InDesign, the publish it as graphic for use elsewhere. Since most people create graphics in Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator and then import them into QXP or InDesign, you can integrate these graphics into a page with multiple graphical elements. Both of these desktop publishing programs are easier for page design than Photoshop; take advantage this, yet still produce a FINISHED graphic to publish.

If you then embed the entire document---graphics, text and design---in a PDF or EPS file, you can print or upload it to the Web, because neither InDesign nor QXP actually imports graphics. They import images of the graphics with links to the original files. When you print from either of them, all the graphics must still be linked. In other words, if you have a QXP or InDesign document with 10 graphic elements, you need to send the QXP or InDesign file along with the 10 original graphics files in order for the person to print it in full resolution. This makes it difficult to send a QXP or InDesign page to anyone to print and impossible to upload to the Web.

Exporting: By exporting a QXP or InDesign page, you are embedding all the graphics in one document, thus making it possible to print without connections to the originals. This means you can upload an entire desktop publishing (DTP) page---with graphics, text and design elements---to the Web without having to configure the linkages. It also means you can send a page originally made in either program to someone who doesn't have the original graphics, and he still can print the document.

Basics: To export any page or portion of a page created in Adobe InDesign or QuarkXPress as a PDF in QXP use the Export feature: Click "File," then "Export," then "Layout as PDF." Another QXP option is to export the document as an EPS (encapsulated postscript) file. To do this, use Save Page as EPS: click "File," then "Save Page as EPS."

In InDesign, use Export: Click "File," then "Export," then select "PDF" with the bottom "Format" button. Or use one of the PDF presets: click "File" then "Adobe PDF Presets" and choose a format. InDesign also allows other options under Export, including EPS and JPEG formats.

Page Design: Do a basic page design in QXP or InDesign, the publish it as graphic for use elsewhere. Since most people create graphics in Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator and then import them into QXP or InDesign, you can integrate these graphics into a page with multiple graphical elements. Both of these desktop publishing programs are easier for page design than Photoshop; take advantage this, yet still produce a finished graphic to publish.

If you then embed the entire document---graphics, text and design---in a PDF or EPS file, you can print or upload it to the Web, because neither InDesign nor QXP actually imports graphics. They import images of the graphics with links to the original files. When you print from either of them, all the graphics must still be linked. In other words, if you have a QXP or InDesign document with 10 graphic elements, you need to send the QXP or InDesign file along with the 10 original graphics files in order for the person to print it in full resolution. This makes it difficult to send a QXP or InDesign page to anyone to print and impossible to upload to the Web.

Exporting: By exporting a QXP or InDesign page, you are embedding all the graphics in one document, thus making it possible to print without connections to the originals. This means you can upload an entire desktop publishing (DTP) page---with graphics, text and design elements---to the Web without having to configure the linkages. It also means you can send a page originally made in either program to someone who doesn't have the original graphics, and he still can print the document.