Printing Hidden Characters

[Forrest Anderson]

I find the hidden characters very useful when reviewing a document. I use them extensively when indexing personal names in a book, because InDesign places a coloured indexing character at every name which has been indexed. I can therefore easily see if a word has been indexed or not.

Everything is fine so far, but I want to print a draft of the document to give to someone else, so that they can check that all the names have been indexed. I therefore would like to print out the document as it appears on the screen - with the hidden characters - so that my colleague can scan a paper copy of the document and easily see which words have been indexed, and which words haven't.

Is there a way of printing a document complete with hidden characters, or are they only visible on the screen?

I'd be very grateful for any input on this.

Forrest

[Carl B. Johnson]

Unfortunately I don't think their is a way to print the "non-printing
characters", hence their name. They will not even output to PDF.

The only (admittedly very poor) work-around that I can think of would be
to do a Print Screen of each page, open Photoshop, CTREL N to open a new
page at the proper size of the document, CTRL V to paste, and then save
as a high quality TIFF... but you will have HUGE files with still pretty
poor text since all text will have been rasterized in this process.

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Carl B. Johnson
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[Mike Witherell]

Forrest,

I played around with your question and couldn't make it print non-printing characters, altho in the print dialog box you can print non-printing guides. Maybe you will have to modify your approach to your workflow.

Mike Witherell

[Guy Smiley]

In line with Mike's suggestion, could you put all of the characters you want to be able to sometimes print and sometimes not onto their own layer? That way you could just hide and un-hide the layer at will.

[Forrest Anderson]

Thanks for the suggestions - they're much appreciated! Apologies for not replying earlier, but I headed off for a long weekend.

I think I'll have to modify my workflow as Mike suggests, and either check for un-indexed entries myself on the screen, or let my colleague check them on-screen, rather than on a paper copy.

Thanks again everyone for taking the trouble to reply.

Forrest