Please, do keep a bit of money to illuminate / set the lightning of the working space properly (in a reasonable way). Many people tend to forget this simple step.   Best regards ... View more

@chelsiefcj  ha escrito: I work for a newspaper. I make the ads in photoshop, and the printer likes us to use indesign. They request not to use registration black. I'm struggling to figure out how to do ads in CMYK for the color parts of the ad, and then how to switch the black to just black, so 0, 0, 0, 100% for the black is what's needed. I have tried everything. I need help!    Hi,   To get help you've got to give a bit more of information:   Sorry, what software are you using to create the final ad files: Photoshop or InDesign? It's not very clear. Which kind of files do you send to your printer? (format: PDF? PDF/X...? TIFF? JPEG?) then... Which kind of colour does it have? (RGB, CMYK, if so... with or without a colour profile?).  Your printer asking you to use InDesign is, in a general sense, right. It is a more flexible tool to make "ads" than Photoshop.  "Registration black": If you are using InDesign (I hope so), it's quite easy: Never ever use the swatch called [All], use [Black]. Not "Black", black or any other variation that you may have build. Use the default [Black]. Build your file with InDesign, place there your pictures (that you have made with Photoshop, I guess), place your texts ([Black]) and export the ad as a PDF/X-4 with the proper ICC color profile for a newspaper in your neck of the woods (the printer can tell you about which one to use). The web is full of tutorials about exporting a PDF/X-4 for press. It's not rocket science. Send them a trial to see if you are in the right track if you can.   Best regards   PS, Next time, I'd use the proper forum. If it is a doubt about InDesign or Photoshop, this is not it. If it is about the quality of colour or someting related to it, then this is the forum (and your question is not related to that, I am afraid).     ... View more

Hi,   If you work a lot with Spanish and French, my piece of advice is: Get a Spanish keyboard. Why? Because it's basically just an English-speaking keyboard with some keys changed and you'll have all the accented characters for Spanish AND French at hand.   Why not the French keyboard? Because it's not a QWERTY keyboard but an AZERTY one.   If you work with English, French and Spanish, this is the best option.   One caveat: If you plan to work with Portuguese as well, then you might prefer a Portuguese keyboard, not a Spanish or French ones.   Best whishes and happy New Year (typed with an Spanish keyboard) ... View more

Sometimes this could happen if you are working in a corporate computer and network where the IT folks have restricted user acces (what they call "privileges") way too much or in an unproper way (I've seen it). If that is the case, you have to talk to them to fine tune your account so that this not happens. ... View more

If you feel more at ease sketching with Illustrator, it's your take (not that InDesign is sooo different to do that, anyway), You could even sketch by hand in paper (not joking).   Afterwards you can place those sketches in a layer at the bottom, make them 50% oppacity and block the layer. So you can redraw and make the good (native) InDesign elements above and discard the layer. I have done that many times with pieces of PDF from our archives. It's a fast way to preview where you want to get at in complex designs.   One tiny detail worth mentioning is that choosing a difficult (uncommon) way of working implies not only extra effort while doing the work but a severe reduction of viable solutions when you have to redo something; a change in the project, a detail that does not work as desired, whatever... it will happen. And when it happens the selection of a suboptimal tool for the job will bite you.   That said, learning the basis of InDesign and how to feel at ease with the day to day workflow is priceless. You'll save yourself hours of work. Really. Illustrator is a beautiful programme, but when it comes to assemble different pieces, InDesign is the mothership that runs in circles around Illustrator and Photoshop. Because it was designed precisely for this.   Has it been mentioned that the way InDesign deals with color and inks is better (much easier) as well?   ... View more

Hi,   It's not really a question of what each programme "can / cannot do". It's a "could do if there were no other way (but I'd rather not ) / usual workflow for thousands of professionals in the industry". Some of us could be absolutelly clueless, but almost all of us? I think the explanation must be somewhere else.   The main issue is text-related, dealing with pages and flow of texts. InDesign is way better and easier to work with in this.   As long as you give PDF files to the printer , you can design a magazine even with Photoshop, if you feel like it, but it'd be some kind of an achademic exercise or show-off operation just for the sake of it.   A real magazine (for instance a weekly thing of one hundred pages or more) with Illustrator? Please, kill me. I am sufferings just by thinking about it.   Best regards ... View more

Sorry, my Turkish is not up to date. If you try English and you try explaining your problem with a bit more of detail (parameters), you might find help from someone.   Best regards   Ps. My own language is not English. ... View more

Hi,   If the document containing the data was created with InDesign and you want to upload it to a website already existing, the answer is to export the page or document to HTML and upload that ("File - Export - HTML).   Aside from that, whatever after processing the data might need, that would be HTML (website) related, so outside of InDesign realm.   Best regards ... View more

His   As everybody has said before, "[paper]" is a swatch color that representes the colour of the paper. Changing its default value is basically a shorcut to display only on screen the supposed value of your paper in that work.   However, this feature has issues. The first one is that it is just a proxy for the screen for a flat colour. That is: It only works in the screen (no printing), it's a proxy (I doubt it has a real colour management) and I am sure you are choosing by eyeball (say goodbay to any colour managament if so).   If you were to be 'precise', you would use a measuring device to create an ICC colour profile for that paper/ink/printer. No big sweat nowadays, but you'd need an spectrophotometre. What's more: Even so, that would work if your paper colour is flat (no marble, no speckles, no laid paper, etc.).   But, as we work with what we have to solve the problems we face, a good solution is measuring /  eyeballing as best as you can the colour of the paper, make in InDesign a flat rectangle the size of the page and place it in a layer of itself  above the rest and set it in 'Darken' blend mode. Once you are done with your design, hide the layer and print it in the proper paper.   I have been sometimes the unhappy user of similar solution while preparing the layout of a salmon-coloures newspaper. Ugh...   ... View more

Sent.   Hope it helps   Gustavo ... View more

Hi,   Yep,  know. I am using a Spanish keyboard (posting and working from Madrid, Spain).    I have exported this set from my InDesign (Spanish 17.01, the latest version). See if using it changes or mends anything. However the forum system won't allow me to post it here.   contact me at imagen.digital.master in the google mail thing if you want it ... View more

Hola,   The keyboard shortcuts are basically the same in all latin-based keyboards, as far as I know. Any difference you find must be between versions or, perhaps, you are using a customised shortcuts set (not very difficult to make anyway).   https://helpx.adobe.com/es/indesign/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html  https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html   Best regards ... View more

" I cannot draw anything by hand or without tracing"   I have been working in the layout trade (magazine design) for 34 years (just retired two days ago). Never draw. Most of my colleagues? Same thing. Lots of designers I know? Same thing. But wait, there's more. Are the illustrators I have met much better than those not-drawing designers when making a lay out? In general terms, nope.   The thing is that layout, design and illustration (drawing) are not the same. They are like some Benn sets: the overlap but they are not the same. If you draw, so much the better for you, you'll make better and neater sketches. If you draw, that knowledge will come handy when you need to draw. But it won't help you to judge, select, buy or order photographies or illustrations. So, don't worry too much about that. ... View more

"PDF/X-4 doesn’t allow conversions into an RGB space."   It does. But its uncommon.  You only need as an output intent a "prtr" (output) kind of ICC colour profile. As the majority of RGB profiles in use are the "mntr" (display) type, they do not appear as usable and, if you force a PDF to accept one, it does not validate as a PDF/X. But it is because of the kind of profile, not because of the colour space. If you install a RGB ICC profile of prtr kind (digital printing, I guess), you'll see this.   It's a pedantic sidenote, I know, but it may be of interest in some cases. ... View more

In any case, he can make it workable for the printer, that's the good news.     ... View more

 @rob day I think that having print marks (crop and registration) just in one plate in a CMYK would defeat their purpose, wouldn't it? Just my guess. But they might be asking for them just out of tradition and then it would be no trouble even not having them. ... View more

Hi,   The trouble you are having seems simple but it has no simple solution inside Adobe Suite. As it has been pointed, print marks are created as "Separation All" color, that is more like a command ("Print every plate") than a real color.   You might try what Uwe points to by making two different PDF: One grayscale and the other CMYK and then tell the printer which set of pages is grayscale and which one is CMYK.   But, if you have to assemble both in one PDF, you revert to the initial trouble as the whole PDF will be considered CMYK and so the print marks will print in every plate.   What rudo123 points to would be an excellent solution (the easiest one, you can even change a whole page to grayscale if you tweak it a bit) . However, the trouble is that Acrobat fixes, at least up to now, do not work for page ranges (see this thread). So, back to the start if you have to send one PDF with all the pages assembled.   So, couldn't you just tell the printer which pages print as grayscale and which ones print as CMYK and send them the two sets, (applying the Acrobat fix to the grayscale PDF)?   Just my two cents   PS. Well. I correct myself. You might apply the grayscale fix in acrobat to the grayscale pages and then (afterwards), merge both PDF to expor the whole set as a PDF/X.   That should do the trick if you have to send one PDF.   ... View more

Hola,   Como es la imprenta la que tiene el CS6 y tú no puedes controlar su forma de trabajar, te sugiero lo más fácil: Adjunta siempre un PDF de baja en pliegos donde se vea lo que tiene que salir y dónde. Ante cualquier discrepancia, debe predominar como se ve en el PDF, que es la referencia   Lo único que tienen que hacer es actualizar los vínculos en la paleta de "Vínculos" en su CS6.   Por aquí trabajamos bastante combinando versiones modernas con CS6 y no tienen mayor problema siempre que el receptor sepa de alguna manera lo que es lo correcto.   Saludos ... View more

Hi, Uwe   I thought that could be the case but the thread is long and I was in between tasks at my workplace. So sorry 🙂 Gustavo ... View more

That workflow seems to be imagined by somebody that does not have to deal with it and wants to reinvent the wheel for some unspecified reason but...   What if instead of placing a multipage PDF, you break it first in individual pages (Acrobat can do that very easily if your version of InDesign is too old to generate individual PDF by itself)? So, you could place the batch of PDF and all of them would be just the first page.   Best regards ... View more

De nada.   Done.   Gustavo   ... View more

Hi,   I have a CS6 now at my workplace. If you send it to me at imagen.digital.master at the gmail.com thing, I can make the transformation and send it back to you (Europe, Madrid time zone).   No charge, no questions, no compromise. "As is"   Gustavo ... View more

In some network/storage environments that message could be triggered by different reasons. Some as absurd as the file name having non ASCII characters. If that's the case, just change the name.   Besides, those files might be password protected or damaged.   Best regards ... View more

Hola,   Parece que tu problema es que moviste (o eliminaste) los archivos vinculados a tu trabajo de InDesign. La solución es volver a localizarlos y vincularlos para que InDesign sepa acceder a ellos.     Abre el documento de InDesign. Abre la paleta llamada "Vínculos". Todos los vínculos que falten tendrán al lado un icono redondo rojo con una interrogación. En la paleta, selecciona el vínculo problemático y, con el botón derecho del ratón, elige la opción "Volver a vincular". Aparecerá una ventana del explorador. Localiza dónde dejaste el vínculo (imagen) desaparecida.   Haz eso con todos los vínculos que te den como desaparecidos.   Buena suerte ... View more

Before exporting the book to PDF, I'd run a preflight on it ("Preflight Book", menú in the upper right hand of the book palette).   It seems as if InDesign is using the "Typical display" for vectors and not the files themselves and the first reason for that is the the link is either missing or changed.   Best regards ... View more

Hi,   More or less in the line that Uwe pointed:   1. Assemble the book with all the items. 2. Export that book to a PDF as ONE file but with single pages (not spreads). 3. Make a new document in InDesign, 1 empty page. Settings: "facing pages", "page size": same size the original pages of your book. 4. Place the PDF in that empty document with a script called "PlaceMultipagePDF" (it comes as a sample with your InDesign. Just go to "Window - Utilities - Scripts" Menu, "Samples - JavaScript" and click it. Choose the document you are in (the new one). The script will create as many pages as needed. 5. Export the resulting InDesign as a new PDF but with "spreads".   There you are. This is called "refrying a PDF", by the way.   Hope it helps ... View more

It is an RGB picture. That's what InDesign it's telling you (Google translator is magic!). Somehow you think it's CMYK, but it is not.   Anyway, if you are going to send the file to print as a PDF and you use the PDF/X-4 preset properly, you do not need to convert the image to CMYK in Photoshop.The Colour Engine (called Adobe CMS) of InDesign will do the conversion to CMYK properly as well.   Best regards ... View more

Hi, The generally recommended set-up for InDesign files that have to travel "a lot" is to have them in a folder which has inside another folder with the linked assets in it. So, when the work changes its place, the relationships with its linked files does not change (because they are in a subfolder of its own folder). That's the structure that all "go to print" packages use. If anyway you need to relink files many times for any reason, you might use a "relink" script like this one: https://creativepro.com/a-script-for-relinking-images/ As you are newbie in a Windows environment, just one thing: Windows "maps" servers or disks to letters and some users may have one disk assigned a letter and some others may have that same disk assigned (mapped) another letter. That would mean for InDesign that they are linked to different units (and they are not). So, InDesign might mark some linked files as "missing". No worries. You can assign (map) different letters to the same server, folder or unit. That is, if some people use R and some othe use Y for "MyServer/Myfolder", you can map "MyServer/Myfolder" twice, one as R and another as Y at the same time. Knowing this tiny detail has saved me a lot of time and hair-pulling   Best regards ... View more