Minion Pro and Myriad Pro are Adobe's default fonts for serif or sanserif fonts that are either missing or unavailable. As such, they have a "special status" and Adobe is unlikely to make changes to Find Font to accomodate your desire to have different default fonts. ... View more

Barb, Your picture made me laugh out loud. Thankfully I had already finished my morning coffee. ... View more

It was only a matter of time before D Fosse showed up with the definitive answer. The problem is light reflections. ... View more

Those .5 inch margins on the business card are way too big for a normal business card. Take a regular business card and measure how far the text is from the edge of the card. Since you are just learning, try .25 inch margins.  You could have slightly smaller margins, but play it safe for your class assignment. It seems that the instructor hasn't mentioned bleeds yet. If you are just creating a plain BC with no backgrounds or other elements that go to the edge of the card then your 3.5 x 2 inch card with .25 inch margins is OK. However, sooner or later you will need to create BC with backgrounds, etc. For these you will need Bleeds of approximately .125 inch on ALL 4 sides of the BC. Don't worry, you will still specify the final trim size of the card as 3.5 x 2 inches. The .25 inch margins will still specify the SAFE area in which to place text and other elements. But the Bleed size will be 3.75 x2.25 inches. This is set up in the Bleed section of the setup dialog, the same place you specified the margins. Bleeds are necessary any time a background or other element goes to the edge of the card. The background needs to extend into the bleed area. This is because every piece of paper that goes through a press or digital printer will have slight variations of where the ink or toner hits the paper. If you have the background just touching the Trim edge of the card, when cutting/trimming the cards you will have a white area of any of the 4 sides, and this may vary from card to card. When you extend the background to the bleed guide, you will be trimming into the background and the problem to white edges go away. Specs: Document size 3.5 x 2 inches (the final size of the BC) This is the BLACK outline you see in InDesign. Internal Margins: .25 inches - all 4 sides (the SAFE area for text and other important elements - 3 x 1.5"). This is the MAGENTA outline. Bleeds: .125 on all 4 sides. This is the RED outline (3.72 x2.25) outside the final trim area. All backgrounds need to touch the Red outline. If all this seems too much. Google for a US business card template (a good template will show the Bleeds) ... View more

I think you are missing the point of having a bleed. You need to extend/clone/etc the image into the bleed area. As you have it now, the bleed area is blank (except for a small part at the bottom, which however still do not extend to the edge of the bleed. An image that is exactly 5x7 and the same image with an empty bleed are not what is needed to print & trim this correctly. In fact, for the cutter/trimmer they are exactly the same! Every press or digital printer will shift the image/paper in a slightly different position on each sheet as it runs through the press/printer. That is why the bleed was developed. When extending the image into the bleed, the bleed will cover up this slight shifting because when cutting/trimming you are cutting on the trim size of the paper 5x7. This means that the cutter will cut slightly into the image that has been extending into the bleed. Without this, you will have white slivers showing on different sides of the image when they are trimmed to 5x7 ... View more

In your Photoshop Print Settings you clearly have a Canon 4320-4350 selected. This is an Canon monochrome laser printer. It makes no sense how or why you have dialog boxes for a HP OfficeJet 3830 on the left side of the screenshot. These are unrelated to the Canon B&W laser. Why don't you try selecting the HP OfficeJet 3830 from the Printer pull down menu? ... View more

Mike, I had the same issue using Chrome. I realized that even though the original path had the : after the https in Chrome, when it attempted to open it gave an error message and the colon : had disappeared from the address path. I carefully inserted the : again and then it was able to access DropBox. However, after downloading the file, it still gives the "not a valid Photoshop doc" error. Tried several different things but no go. ... View more

This is going out on a limb a bit. Have you accidentally changed your measurements to Points or Picas? In your InDesign preferences, check the Units and Increments section. If you don't normally use Picas/points, change it to another measurements like Inches or mm, etc. ... View more

Have you downloaded the templates? There are templates for PDF, doc. ppt. There are also separate template for front & back and they are already set up as 2up. Don't place these in InDesign because you won't be able to access the text fields in the template. If you have the PDF templates, just open it in Acrobat and the text fields are available for typing. Also note these will only work with a laser printer. They won't work with an inkjet. The names says it all "Rite in the Rain"  (weatherproof) . An inkjet print would smear with the first drop of water. ... View more

It appears you want the covers to have a bleed. Do you also have any content pages that will have any elements that extend into the bleed? For your covers you have 2 A4 pages side by side. This is exactly the size of an A5 page. If you want the covers to have a bleed, the printer will need to print this on a sheet that is larger than an A5 page. You simply cannot have an A5 page with bleeds printed on an A5 page. The bleeds extend beyond the edges of the A5. You mentioned: The printer is a staple finish printer,  This seems to indicate that will be produced at a local copy/print center. For this to work, the people producing this will need to print the covers on a sheet that is larger than an A5 (to accommodate the bleeds) cut the covers down to A5, place in an inserter or separate tray/drawer of the printer and run your inside pages duplexed (double sided) and have it print your content pages on A5 paper, insert the cover and automatically fold and staple the booklet/catalog. This assumes that your content pages do NOT have any elements that bleed off the page. If so, then you do not have to include a bleed on the content pages. If you add a bleed to pages that simply do not need it, they will have to crop your PDF to an A5 size. Don't assume that if you give them a PDF with unnecessary bleeds with crop marks that they will look at every single page in the document to see if it actually needs bleeds. They probably will just print the pages on the oversize paper and cut them down. This will increase your price and turnaround time. This could be more expensive and more complicated than you realize. You need to talk to the printer and explain exactly what you need, i.e. content pages with nothing beyond the edge of the page (no bleeds) and covers with a bleed all assembled into the final product, a catalog/booklet that is an A4 size after folding and stapleing. Test Screen Name gave very good advice in posts 1 & 5: Don't assume anything and don't make something that cannot be modified within a few minutes. Always ask!  Also, the covers, paper or card/cover stock? This will change the price. Good Luck! ... View more

Bob, I've gotten away from photography for several years. When I use to go out I would often go to cemeteries. When people would ask why I went to cemeteries, I would answer "the subjects don't move and they never complain when I want to take just one more shot" After reading your article I was surprised to see that you are from Pittsburgh too. Allegheny Cemetery is a rich source of statuary and monuments. ... View more

I agree that most of the issues are from jpg artifacts, but I also think that the image is being down sampled when resaving as a PDF See davescm's screenshot in answer 11. Down sampling, compression and image quality settings can all affect the final product. You mentioned that this was a high resolution scan. Do you know the resolution? Also, on large blueprint scanners there are some settings that can affect the scan quality. Digital printers that can also scan have a much more limited set of controls than stand alone scanners. But it is what it is. You mentioned spending hours with the eraser tool (it shows in some of your screenshots). You likely could have saved all that time by using a Levels adjustment layer. I know that some people say you should use a Curves adjustment, but the Levels adjustment layer is easier to understand, and since you spent hours with the eraser, easier is better. After all, its not the Mona Lisa, but just a bluepriint. In less than a minute you could have eliminated most of the "schmutz" that you spent hours erasing. Even if it doesn't eliminate it all, what is left over is greatly reduced in the final product. But again, pay attention to: Down Sampling, Compression and Image Quality.  Also some PDF settings will convert your RGB scan into a CMYK image. 4 channels vs 3 channels will mean a bigger file size. PS: Blueprints are normally scanned as a Multipage PDFs since it is rarely just 1 page being scanned. Architects, Contractors, etc will be upset if they receive 8 separate files of their scanned 8 page blueprint set. They want it all in 1 file. ... View more

This was also posted in the InDesign forum around the same time as this Photoshop forum posting. People in the InDesign forum assumed that this had been created in InDesign, and were recommending that she use Photoshop to create the image and sent her here. The trouble with cross postings is that we aren't sure which application was used to create the image. ... View more

I'm assuming you are talking about the image in Photoshop and not in ACR. There is a grainy problem that shows up if you have your Cache Levels set to less than 4. ... View more

This is what Bob is talking about. You have live text in Myriad Pro Regular and also an outlined version of the text. I moved the "provide you with common sense" text down from the outlined version. This is thinner that the original but the original had the outline that made it appear fuzzy. The "compensation claim? We will" is moved down and I changed it from Myriad Pro Regular to Myriad Pro SemiBold. Ignore the thin blue line under the text, it is just the selection indicator that shows when I selected it to move it and then change the font. There is also some outlined text in the bottom box, but I didn't check anything else in your PDF. ... View more

Uwe, Regarding Adobe Sans MM and Adobe Serif MM there was this discussion from a few years ago. I want to use adobe sans mm in editing a document 2. Re: I want to use adobe sans mm in editing a document Bo LeBeau Correct AnswerAug 30, 2015 12:21 AM (in response to davidp24555264) Adobe Sans MM and Adobe Serif MM are fallback fonts that Acrobat uses whenever a font is not embedded in a pdf. These fonts are Multiple Master fonts that only exist within Acrobat and are not available at the system level. According to Dov Isaacs at Adobe, you must have a font actually installed in your system to be able to use it to edit a PDF. Think of these as virtual fonts that don't actually exist on your computer, so therefore they can't be used to edit a PDF. You can see them and you can print them, but you cannot access them. The only exist within Acrobat and only come into play as a default font that Acrobat utilizes whenever the actual font that was used was not embedded. --------------------------------------------------- 4. Re: I want to use adobe sans mm in editing a document Dov Isaacs Aug 30, 2015 1:02 AM (in response to Bo LeBeau) To augment Bo's correct response ... (1)   A document could absolutely not have originally been created using Adobe Sans or Adobe Serif. They are not installed or otherwise available for normal application use. As Bo indicates, they are special substitution fonts used by Acrobat and some other Adobe applications. It you open a PDF file and look at the Fonts panel of Document Properties (Ctrl-D), for a particular font entry, the only place you would see Adobe Sans or Adobe Serif would be as the font listed asActual Font. This is the case in which the creator of the PDF file didn't embed the font and Acrobat has to try to find the font installed on the user's system or use a substitution font. For fonts such as Helvetica, Times, and Courier, Acrobat has the “smarts” to use system fonts Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New respectively since they generally have identical set widths to the original fonts. Missing ITC Zapf Dingbats are replaces with Adobe Pi, and for anything else using a Western Latin character set, Adobe Sans or Adobe Serif is used depending on whether the original font was a san serif or serif style. These two Multiple Master technology fonts have the capability of matching the set widths of any other Western Latin font. (2)  There are some very limited situations in which Adobe Sans and/or Adobe Serif can end up showing as the font of the text and possibly even embedded in a PDF file. That is the situation in which a PDF with non-embedded fonts and for which the fonts are not installed on the user's system is printed from Acrobat to the Adobe PDF PostScript printer driver instance, a process known as “refrying a PDF file” which is strongly discouraged by Adobe for some fairly obvious reasons. Since the original font cannot be found, Acrobat outputs PostScript using Adobe Sans and/or Adobe Serif in the PostScript stream and feeds that to the Distiller which them embeds those fonts in the refried PDF file. (3)  If you are trying to get the look of Adobe Sans, whether or not you are trying to edit existing text in a PDF file or add text or even create text in a new document, use Myriad Pro. Adobe Sans was based on an early Multiple Master Type 1 version of Myriad. Myriad Pro is the closest font in terms of design and metrics to Adobe Sans. In terms of Adobe Serif, use Minion Pro. Adobe Serif was likewise based on an early Multiple Master version of Minion. Minion Pro is the closest font in terms of design and metrics to Adobe Serif.           - Dov ... View more

I first heard this album, waking up on a Saturday morning in my college dorm room, my mind still foggy from sleep, experiencing this wonderful, magical sound . It was coming from another room down the hall, and I went down to find out what it was, and then went out to buy a copy. I will never forget that moment, and Dark Side of the Moon has been my favorite album of all time. That it stayed on Billboards top albums list for 15 years straight after it was released is a testament to its popularity. ... View more

You can even set the text wrap to a minus value (less than zero)  something like -0p4 ... View more

Do they want a CDR file because they are expecting a vector image? Almost all mentions of CDR are usually because they can contain vector elements. Not having CorelDraw i can't say for sure, but it must also support raster (pixel) images. I can't believe that they would require a raster (pixels only) image be placed in a CDR file before they will accept the file. Something would be seriously wrong & inflexible if they won't accept jpgs, tifs, etc for pixel images. After reading your original post, you mentioned the artwork was originally created in InDesign. Was the artwork text and InDesign drawn elements only? if so, they would remain vector if you saved it as a PDF. Sending a .jpg would not be recommended in this case since all the vectors would be rasterized. I would ask they why the need a CDR file. Is it because they are expecting an all vector only image in CDR format? A mix of vectors & pixels in the CDR format? A raster image only image? If so, why won't they accept native raster file format files like .jpd. tif, etc? ... View more

It seems like people are over-thinking the OP's problem. Unless I am missing something, she only needs TWO (2) name cards and only has a day or two to do this. No printer that offers gold foiling is going to take a foiling order for a single sheet that only has 2 items on it. Most printers that offer this option don't actually produce this in-house, but sends orders to a vendor that specializes in this. So, order too small to bother, and the turnaround time of 1 or 2 days is unlikely to be met. Printing in a Spot color has similar issues of only single sheet, time, and the fact that metallic spot colors don't look that great compared to foiling. Semaphoric has a good idea about metallic transfer material, but the OP is worried about the size of the dots, how to do, etc. Since the OP admits to being "a complete newbie" in Photoshop (and I assume, also in Illustrator) trying to create the effect in either application, even with help from the forum members, is  not likely to be speedy or productive. She is also under a deadline of a day or two. Why not just print the 2 place cards and get some glitter, sequins or other shiny material and glue them to the cards? They won't an exact match to the other cards, but if done nicely, they are likely to have other guests wishing they had gotten one of the "special" cards. Even just printing regular cards shouldn't be an issue, since they did R.S.V.P. too late. The wedding is going to have a lot more pressing issues that these 2 name cards. Don't stress out. ... View more

I like the "Lies Your Printer Has Told You". Dov is a great debunker of all the bad advice that many printers try to tell people. On the forums, this happens almost every day. It would be nice, if after the presentation, that a PDF version could be made available for download. It could be sent to bull-headed printers and people who wonder why the printer is telling them to do certain things to their files before sending. Many times people just ask how to do what their printer requires, not understanding that most of the time is it unnecessary and is often destructive. ---------------------------------- Now, we also need a primer for document producers about the requirements to produce good PDFs for print providers. If you have ever working on the printing end of things, you know all the things that will never work with the PDF that people give you. This group is many times larger than the bad printer group. All in all, a little bit of knowledge (actually, a large bit of knowledge) goes a long way towards a successful output. ... View more

The vast majority of posters in these forums are just users like yourself. JJMack gives a good link to cancel. Be aware that the type of subscription has restrictions and that changes the amount of refund (if any) If you have the $10 month Photography Plan, you have committed to paying for 12 months and there is an early termination fee of approximately 50% of the remaining time left on the 12 month plan. If you have a Month by Month that is NOT the $10 month the policy is different. ... View more

Just a thought... All of the images appear with a ©JKost, which I assume is Julianne Kost of Adobe. Are these tutorial files? Not sure how much of the final file was created by you or Julianne. While there may some exceptions for personal use, or how much of the original image remains in a derivative work to change its status. But, the fact that the © shows in the title tab of all of these images in Photoshop is something to be aware of. ... View more

The Nik Collection has been acquired by DxO and they are planning to release a new version in mid 2018. Since they are creating a new version (which you don't need a crystal ball to predict that it will NOT be free like the Google download)  I'm not sure how much (if any) support they will offer when the new version is only a few months away . See: Homepage - Nik Collection by DxO -------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to DxO,
the new home of the Nik Collection We at DxO are very proud to add the Nik Collection to our renowned photo editing solutions. Our teams are actively working to release a new Collection in mid-2018. ... View more

I'm pretty sure that what the OP calls the "pipette" is the eyedropper tool. . . . I do a lot of formatting and find the pipette tool essential for my work. . . The eyedropper tool for picking up and copying styles seems to be what the OP is missing. ... View more

Gener7 You had a good idea with upgrading your MacBook Pro 2012. Its a shame that Apple has moved to soldering in the ram, which requires new buyers to buy the more expensive models with additional ram built in at the time of purchase. Off topic, but has anyone been able to desolder the ram and replace it with additional ram, or is it simply not doable? ... View more

Jocelyn, Roberto has not posted anything in this forum. Gener7 posted a link to Roberto's external website. If you want to post a comment or question to Roberto you need to go to his website, scroll down to access the "Leave a Reply"  and type your comments in there. Be aware that the article in question is over 2 years ago. ... View more

"Professional Designers" and "Perfect Typography"  don't really apply to this example since they have a glaring typo. They misspelled the word "constructed" ... View more