- [Voiceover] In this movie I'll show you
how to package your document,
complete with all linked images and all fonts.
So, that you can hand it off to a commercial printer
knowing that you have every single file
that the printer will need.
And, so here we are looking at that version
of the phototype with a linked image,
as opposed to an embedded one.
So, there's a chance I could give this document
to a printer without the image,
and that would create a big problem.
Basically, the link would be missing.
And, so it's generally a good idea to go ahead
and package the document by going up to the File menu,
and choosing the Package command,
and then, here inside the Package dialogue box
I'll just go ahead and rename the sub-folder
into which all of the files will be copied.
And then, you have a handful of check boxes to choose from.
First, you definitely wanna copy your linked images,
so leave that check box on.
You probably wanna collect 'em in a separate folder.
This is just gonna make things
as straight forward as possible for your commercial printer.
You definitely wanna re-link the linked files
to this new document and then next,
do you wanna copy the fonts?
That's totally up to you, but notice this note right there:
Except CJK, which stands for Chinese, Japanese, Korean;
as well as any Typekit fonts you may have installed,
and then, you probably wanna go ahead
and create a report as well, so that you can see
that everything worked.
So, 99 times out of 100, I'm guessing you're
just gonna wanna leave all the check boxes turned on,
and then, click on the Package button.
Next, you're gonna see some legal language
about what your options are when copying font files.
But unless you feel like reading it just go ahead
and click OK in order to ignore that message.
And then, with any luck you'll see that
the package was created successfully.
To view the package just click on the Show Package button,
and that will show you the contents of this sub-folder.
Now, for those of you who have access to my exercise files,
I'm not going to be including this sub-folder.
The reason being that I'm not allowed to give you
these two fonts: CaslonPro and MyriadPro.
So, just know that,
but we do have the fonts in their own folder.
This Links folder contains the one linked image,
and then, finally, we've got
the Illustrator file right here, along with
a text-only version of this report.
And so, if you wanna check things out,
you can go ahead and double-click on the Text file,
and confirm that there are no missing fonts,
that none of the fonts were protected from packaging.
It'll list what those fonts were.
It'll tell you whether you have any missing links,
and it'll tell you what that linked image is.
And, of course, assuming that you're satisfied
with what you see, you can go ahead
and close that Text file.
And that, very simply, is how you package a document
along with all linked images and all fonts,
so that you can successfully hand off the document
to a commercial print house with all files intact.