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Alexandre Brandt
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Alexandre Brandt
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‎Dec 31, 2018
04:42 AM
Hello Derek, Thanks for your suggestions but there are a few things I don't understand. Before I go into the details, I'd like to say that the InDesign document I used, is from a pamphlet I designed earlier this year which I got printed at the same printing company in 300 copies. There was no issue regarding bleeds and folds. So when designing the 2019 version I started working from a copy of my previous Indesign project so start on good grounds. Regarding the guide at 148mm. I don't understand why I would align my pictures to the corner with a guide. Can't I trust the Indesign document set up to be correct regarding document size and center and place my images accordingly on the A5 page ?? Regarding crop marks. Before going into the details, I'd like to underline that what the printing company is asking to deliver as a PDF document is : two different PDF documents, one for one side of the A4 sheet (with page 4 and 1) and one PDF for the other side of the sheet with page 2 and 3. I believe that's a pretty standard way in the printing industry, hens the spread system in Indesign. I went back to your previous comments on my other posts, that's what you wrote: Just to add to Bob's suggestion – that's two A4 landscape pages (pages 4 and 1 for one side and pages 2 and 3 for the other) with 3mm bleed on each edge. Untick Facing pages, and increase the margins to suit the design you've shown. Place your images in RGB color mode and export your document to PDF, using the InDesign Preset PDF/X-4 (unless you've been given a different spec by your printer), tick Crop Marks and tick Use Document Bleed Settings, both found under the Marks and Bleeds tab in the Export Adobe PDF dialogue box" I currently got 5mm bleed on each edge. That's what the printing company is asking me. I did have the *Facing pages ticked" on and I just unticked that but I didn't see any changes in my Indesign document, neither on the page window or the artwork itself. But again, here I don't understand why I would untick that if the aim is to output two sheets with facing pages... as mentioned above and why I insist using spreads and not individual pages. For the margins. Are you saying margins to prevent the text from being to close to the edge? Or are you talking about other margins ? Then you say that I place my images in RGB color. Again, here it doesn't make any senses to work in RGB color if I'm designing for CMYK printing. My images are an illustrator document that has been set up in CMYK as well. In any case, RGB and CMYK color mode should not be impacting bleeds and crop marks, would it ?? When I exported I did tick "Crop Marks" and "Use Document Bleeds Settings". I just re-exported now with following your indications to check what results I would get. Below is the first page. There are two clear problems. 1. I'm only getting separate pages and not spreads which is what I need to deliver to the printing company. 2. As you can see on the left, page 1 is bleeding over page 4... It seems to me that my way of exporting was closer to an actual working PDF. I'm sorry to say but the crop marks overlapping in my previous export is less of an issue that the current what I get when following your guideline. I'm open to trying things out but I wanted to explain with all the above that what you are suggesting is just not working.
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‎Dec 30, 2018
10:09 AM
Hello all, So I've got a layout I made for a printed pamphlet. It's an A5 pamphlet, printed on A4 which is folded. Below is an export with the fold & crop marks. Things seem correct. I got the proof print to check things are good before production. I realize that when folding the sheet, the print is not exactly centered. The back page (on the left) creeps over the fold on the 1st page (right). When I check the rulers the InDesign document, I do notice something, however. On the left side I've got 15cm + 7mm On the right side, there is 15cm + 3mm You can see that with the black arrows. That means that the right and left page don't have the same width. I'm confused... Can someone shed some light?
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‎Dec 30, 2018
09:30 AM
Hey there, Thanks for the infos. I was indeed able to find a solution through another forum. Bellow the final picture after compositing and color grading.
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‎Dec 25, 2018
09:57 AM
Yep. That's what I did last time when I made that pamphlet for spring 2018 and it worked.
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‎Dec 25, 2018
09:54 AM
Ouai mais figurez-vous qu'en réglent le fond du "Inside" à 0.5cm bah le problème est partie 🙂 Bizard bizard quand même.
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‎Dec 25, 2018
09:52 AM
Hey all, OK I figured it out. As you can see in my document setup, I had bleed in the "Inside" set as 0. I did that because when exporting I had an issue of one page bleeding on the other where the fold is. You can see below. Well, I tried re-exporting after correcting my document set up at 0.5 bleed on all sides. The issue is solved as you can see below.
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‎Dec 25, 2018
09:34 AM
Bonjour, Merci pour votre réponse. 1. La taille du document m'est indiquée par l'imprimeur. Comme vous voyez dans l'image ci-dessus (encadré en bas à gauche) c'est du 21x14,85 qui est demandé. Votre deuxième question est bonne aussi. J'ai mis 0 cm de fond perdu sur l'intérieur, car j'avais eu un problème de chevauchement des images. Vous voyer dans l'export ci-dessous qu’une partie de l'image de la page 1 se retrouve sur la page 4 du côté "intérieur" (dans le plie). C'est pour ça que j'avais supprimé le fond perdu. Mais j'ai re- essayé de faire un export et ça marche. Voici ci-dessous. Donc merci pour votre aide
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‎Dec 25, 2018
09:15 AM
Hey Willi, I see your reasoning. I tried that, this is what I get. So I seperate the pages Then I export as PDF with spreads. I end up with a PDF in 4 A5 pages... And the bleed issue is still there as you can see in this first page.
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‎Dec 25, 2018
09:06 AM
Hello Derek, Thank you for the suggestions. What you wrote is basically what I did, except for the RGB images and the PDF/X-4. Here is my PDF export settings: My front & back page design is made in Illustrator, CMYK color mode, as I knew, it was for print. The printer asks me to use PDF /X-1a:2001... I just thought of a possibility of where the issue is coming from. I'm making my front and back page in Illustrator. My illustrator is set up with a 5mm bleed on 4 sides (see screenshot below) But perhaps, when placing the illustrator file in Indesign its bleeds get disregarded ?
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‎Dec 25, 2018
08:54 AM
Hello Bob, I don't really do that because I also have to export a PDF interactive version for the web site / newsletter. It's not convenient for people on the computer to get two A4 landscapes with page 4 & 1 and then 2 & 3 on the other side…
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‎Dec 24, 2018
07:13 AM
Hey all, So I'm exporting a CMYK PDF for print. It's a A5 pamphlet when folded, A4 when opened. Bellow a picture to show the format. I'm having an issue with bleeds. This is my document setup. You can see, I have it at 0.5 cm for the top, bottom and outside. I don't have bleed in the inside on purpose, as the A5 pages are facing and will be printed on an A4 sheet. Below is an extract of the first spread. The left bleed is different than the right bleed. In the left the background image only extends up to the 5mm bleed mark. So there is no actual bleed on the left but on the right I've got the 5mm bleed as setup above. The other thing I'm wondering is, when I look at my spreads and compare them, I see that the crop marks are not aligned equally on both spreads. Below is a screen shot is the two-spread corners one of top of each other. Is that some sort of error or this is due because the sheet will be printed two-sided and so by when the bottom spread is placed on the back the marks re-align ? Any help & advice is very welcomed. Thank you !
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‎Nov 05, 2018
08:54 AM
Hello all, I'm pretty new to Photoshop, have been learning the last few weeks with a Udemy course. I am very familiar with other Adobe software - have been using Premier Pro for years and Illustrator as well. Anyways, I've got a picture I took of a car. I'm trying to remove some of the ugly background from it; mainly the hose roller on the left of the car, probably the blue tent as well. I made a mask of the upper left area of the picture, not including the car to allow me to work with the healing brush tool without affecting the car area but only the background. The issue I'm running into is that that black hose roller is large. When I try to sample areas at the left of it with the healing brush, I quickly find myself limited in the scope of material I can sample from. For example, I get a straight border of the left part of the image if I chose "Aligned" or eventually the wheel of the car start appearing. How can I solve this ?
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‎Jul 25, 2018
12:55 AM
Hey Twinbrush, Thanks for this tip. Yep, it seemed to work when I was doing it this way. It's a bummer really because it means the color square below the hex color value is actually useless if you can't use a color picker on it...
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‎Jul 04, 2018
04:38 AM
Hey Jacob Thank you for the tip. It worked perfectly !
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‎Jul 04, 2018
04:11 AM
Hello all, I'm trying to create a PNG with no background of my signature so I can place that in digital files I send to clients. I have a scan of my signature written in black on white paper. I could vectorize or not but the import thing is to remove the white background and have a clean black line. How would I be able to do that in AI ? Thanks !
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‎Jun 04, 2018
09:14 AM
Hello all, So I've got an artboard with an icon. I'd like to fill the inside (currently white areas; like the hare shape) with a color. How do I go about doing that ? Thank you
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‎Apr 28, 2018
11:33 AM
1 Upvote
Hey there, In the end, I sent it to a pro to get fixed... Thanks for the help.
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‎Mar 12, 2018
05:39 AM
Thank you.
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‎Mar 12, 2018
02:33 AM
Nice, I didn't realize that gear icon would open up a menu with options. Indeed, the PDF was set to smallest file size Thanks.
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‎Mar 12, 2018
02:30 AM
Hey Monika. Ok, I see now. I was actually trying to save as PDF but by doing, Export As. There is no PDF in the drop-down menu of the format: But apparently it's possible in Save as. Thanks
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‎Mar 12, 2018
02:18 AM
Ahhh ! Thank you ! I see now When I'm in the Develop module in the Before/After view, my mouse is the magnify tool. How can I change that, so it becomes the hand tool to allow me to easily drag the image or the line ?
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‎Mar 11, 2018
11:07 AM
7 Upvotes
Hello, I've got an artboard in A4 format with two images at the top. The images, a JPEG of high resolution 3000 x 1500 for one a TIFF more than 4000px for the other, placed on the artboard. When I export for screens, as PDF, the resulting PDF has the images pixelated / compressed / look really bad. The text is perfectly sharp, everything is sharp but the images are terrible. This is a link to my screenshot for a better resolution as to see what I'm saying. Screen Shot 2018-03-11 at 18.52.10.jpg I've tried changing the scale in the formats, but when PDF is selected the scale drop down and suffix columns are grayed out. If I export for Screens as JPEG2000 and select 300ppi for the scale there is no issue. Here is a screenshot of the result Non pixelated image.jpg I could definitely export at Jpeg and then convert to PDF in other application, but is there a way to export a PDF from illustrator without affecting the picture qualities. ?
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‎Mar 11, 2018
06:36 AM
Yeah, it is a solution to created duplicates and do the reordering this way. It worked. Thank you winterm. Why did I use the alternative layout ? Simple logic, I believe. I come from a film background. In promotional videos when we want to create alternative version the video with changes say in the titles or the scene orders and edits, we create a new sequence (and I use Premier Pro btw). What we absolutely don't do is copy the video once again and put in back-to-back with the 1st version on the same sequence. I've never seen that. And what Premier pro absolutely do not do is start moving shot on its own from one sequence to another, which is what InDesign seems to be doing with pages when the shuffle and move to a different layout. To me it seems totally illogical. So it's just my thinking, coming from a non-print background where alternative changes are made a proper new version of the work.
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‎Mar 11, 2018
06:14 AM
Hello, I'm having some issue using the before/after view. Indeed, this is what I see at the bottom of my picture window. I click the YX button, it shows me different images, and doe not compare the image I'm currently working on. The button used to be YY and there used to be a drop-down menu to select the view type, but it changed and I don't know how to change it back. Any help would be highly appreciated
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‎Mar 10, 2018
05:17 AM
Hey winterm, Thanks for the video. My problem is : when I try re-ordering the pages in my web layout, they shuffle and get put in my print layout.
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‎Mar 09, 2018
12:18 PM
I've got an Indesign document with two layouts of 4 pages each. For my print version I had to export a PDF a certain way, with page 4, next to page 1 on same sheet and then pages 2 and 3 on the other side. For the web, I want to export in the correct page order. So I made a new layout to re-order the pages. The problem I'm having is when I try to move pages around, they shuffle and some of them go to the other previous layout ! What the heck.
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‎Mar 09, 2018
09:06 AM
Ok, I managed. Thank you !
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‎Mar 09, 2018
07:43 AM
Is there a way to remove that or do I need to re-do the shape ? And I just didn't go under object -> Expand... and there is no keyboard shortcut for it it seems. It looks like it decided to expand itself.
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‎Mar 09, 2018
07:35 AM
OK, so I found the appearance panel, but the info I input there doesn't affect my shape, even though I've selected it and all.. And I don't know why I've got a double line for my shape.
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