Ack. My Bad.. When I had looked at the specifications on the Brother site for your model it listed BR-Script Postscript Emulation, but now that I look at it again, the Specs page was for an entire Lxxxx family, but not ALL models had BR-Script, so yeah, your EXACT model did not have it. Boo! In reality, your best option is to create PDFs and print those despite the added steps in your workflow. ... View more

This looks like they've retraced the document from an image. Why, who knows.  What does it say in Document Properties in the PDF you got back? e.g. PDF Producer and Document Fonts. In Fonts, If it's something weird with numbers in it, like "Fontname-Bold-739", I have a theory. Please send the files before and after. You can send by DM if they are sensitive information. ... View more

If the AirPrint driver has no options to access the PS abiliies of your printer, you are out of luck. Adobe can't change that, that's an OS thing with the AirPrint Driver, and Brother has no interest in making drivers that work. You could try add anoher instance of you printer and assign the Generic Postscript Driver to it. You will lose device specific device settings, of course. ... View more

"Is there a way to do this directly from InDesign?" Totally. If you are printing this yourself***, then printing Postscript > Distiller is the way to go if you want to save your Booklet as a PDF, but you need to use a PPD that will properly define a page size. i.e. you must not select Device Independent as that writes the PS only for the objects in your file but does not include a page size, hence why it does not create a properly-oriented and aligned PDF. The best way is to install the ADPDF9.PPD (available here https://helpx.adobe.com/ca/indesign/kb/add-acrobat-ppd.html) into the PPDs folder inside your ID install. This PDF will alllow you to select the proper page size or create a custom one for your own purposes. If your own printer happens to be a Postscript printer, you could use its PPD (like, I could use my Xerox PPD seen below just as easily), but there are limitations to that so I don't recommend it.   Once you have that you should be able to select the right page size to contain your printer spreads. I recommend creating a Print Preset in InDesign for the size of paper you use regularly so you don't have to do it every time. For example, I print simple Letter-size booklets on 12"x18" paper (as I need bleed), so I have a Print Preset that ha sthat size, the settings for Crop Marks and Bleed, High Res Flattening, etc, etc, which looks like this: (adapt to your own needs, of course)  Then when you Print Booklet, you can select this Preset. Check the Preview to see if you are getting what you expect, then Save the PostScript file and then Distill it to a PDF.   *** If you are NOT printing this yourself, you really should be Exporting individual page PDFs directly from ID and having your vendor impose the booklets properly. The issue with the Postscript workflow is that it is limited to Level 3 code and will necessarily flatten any live transparency and color management that would otherwise exist in properly exported PDFs from Indesign. That being said, if you ARE printing this yourself, this "flattening" is happening anyway, so you should get what you expect in print. ... View more

I'm assuming they want a specific Pantone color for their QR code? Say the QR code image is a B&W/Greyscale TIF. Select that directly in InDesign and apply the Pantone to it; no transparency effect needed. Of course, if their image is something else, like an RGB Black, it would be worth their while to change it to a pure 100K greyscale, then any colour can be applied as above. ... View more

Ooops. Yes, you are correct. I had a custom keyboard shortcuts in place (maybe because of some conflict. Don't remember why 🙂 But, as it turns out, the shortcuts for Bold, Italic didn't exist prior to CC2024 so are a recent addition. If I switch back to Default they show up for me.   ... View more

Ah, sorry. I was looking at Mac Illustrator. It does not have those key shortcuts defined (at least by default, anyway) I guess illustrator is picking up the reference for Bold from a different part of the font info, and not the family name. I guess the question now is why InDesign and illustrator have different ways. ... View more

This is an error on the font designer's part. You might want to talk to paratype about this: In order for most programs to make a family association between font styles, the designer needs to base the family name on the same base font. This hasn't been done with the version of PT Serif Pro being served currently on Adobe fonts. In my sample here, you can see they erroneously labeled the family name of the Bold to PT Serif Pro Bold instead of the proper PT Serif Pro. Because of this, using the bold style key commands in InDesign can't find it. Below: The Adobe Fonts versions are at top left and right. Below that are the Regular and Bold of PT Serif that's included in the Mac OS for comparison, which is correctly defined. You can still use the fonts of course; you just have to manually asign the bold version to your text instead of relying on key commands (which have fallen out of favour in recent years anyway)   I'm not sure what you mean by it's not happening in Illustrator, as there are no such bold style key commands there. You have to select the Bold implicitly in the Character Style menu ... View more

(This is all to say that they need to apply the colour differently) 🙂 ... View more

I've been able to reproduce it. and it confirms what I thought what is happening: Say the QR code is defined as pure Black 0C 0M 0Y 100K On top of that they placed a rectangle of a Pantone Colour (e.g Pantone 2995) and applied Screen to that. Because Screen was applied InDesign now calculates it under the Transparency Blend space of the document.   If it's CMYK Blend Space, then the Pantone is converted to CMYK (say, 80C 7M 2Y 0K), then Screen is applied in relation to the Background colour (0C 0M 0Y 100K). The result is the lighter* (smaller value) of each channel, hence 0C 0M 0Y 0K. Poof, it's gone.   *Screen and Lighten work similarly but slightly differently, so I'm paraphrasing here by saying it's the lighter of the two values.   Conversely, if was RGB Blend Space, the QR code would be converted to an RGB object (27R 27G 27B), and so would the Pantone 2995 rectangle (0R 168G 226B), and the result would be lighter (higher) values, hence (27R 168G 226B), a bit lighter than the full Pantone Colour because the QR code doesn't necessarily convert to a pure RGB Black. ... View more

This is a very bad idea for so many reasons, and if you are being asked to do this by a supposedly "professional" printer, I'd look for somone else. Asking for outlines in this day and age is downright archaic. There are on a few processes I have dealt with that still need to have text converted to outlines, e.g. flexography, CNC processes, etc, none of which I doubt applies here for a 44-page book. The other issue is that outlines from improperly-made variable fonts have been known to cause problems, especially with CNC machines, as the letter forms are layered pieces of glyphs as opposed to a united single shape. Outlining in Acrobat is possible, yes, but is affected by this variable font issue also.   ... View more

Also a prepress guy here: I haven't experinced this issue yet. Can you share the PDF (DM me if necessary). What's your RIP scenario? What program was the file created from? and how did they color the QR? (e.g. did they apply it in ID to a b&W tif, or..?) ... View more

I'd buy that wallpaper! ... View more

To give some history: In the "old days" (i.e Pagemaker 🙂 ), when placing an external file that contained a spot colour with different definitions than Pagemaker had in its own library, it would ask if you wanted to keep PM's definition or replace it with the incoming one. This caused lots of trouble in prepress and it was justifiably removed as an option when InDesign came out. ... View more

@Francesco Stefanini . As I mentioned as a reply to rob's reply, the spot colour you had was from the OLD deprecated set of Pantone Spot colours from before CS6, so this definition probably came from a legacy file that was made years ago. Back in the days where the actual press processes and way of making plates was much different than it is now, a lot of dot gain occurred by the time it hit paper, sespecially on lighter tints, so those light values (0C 2M 3Y 6K) would gain considerably So it comes down to what you want to match: As a prepress person, our job is to match the actual Pantone swatch, not some old outdated CMYK values, so we would be using the LAB values. Of course, if you are printing this colour as a spot ink, it doesn't matter what the definition is, the pressman will use an actual Pantone Warm 1 ink to print with. It's only the name of the ink that matters. ... View more

Indeed, if they are going spot, it doesn't matter, but, yeah, I looked back at the pre-CS6 pre-LAB Pantone sets, and Pantone, Warm Grey 1 C was indeed defined as 0C 2M 3Y 6K. That being said, that was at a time when there was assumed a lot of gain by the time it got to press, so it makes sense the values are quite light. ... View more

What are your PDF export settings, especially for Output? If you are looking for your Document Intent, that would be here: ...assuming you've exported your PDF using a setting that includes Document Intent. The area you indicate shows any profiles that have been added to the file, like for any placed images. However, InDesign by default ignores any embedded CMYK profiles (which is a good thing, actually), so you won't see any there. You can override this by selecting Options > Color in the Place dialog when you place such an image, but there should be a realy good reason to so so.  You can also change your Color Settings to Preserve Embedded Profiles for CMYK images (*which will only affect any new documents AFTER you make the change) ... View more

The bigger question is WHY are you embedding your images? It's not a good way of working... It makes it much harder to work with and increases the size of your file immensely. ... View more

Excellent point! ... View more

"Xerox PrimeLink" Yah, that's Xerox's workflow. And what you have there is a scanned document; It is not a vector-based PDF at all. It looks like it was scanned from a printed booklet that was taken apart; it's not exactly square and you can see the staple holes in the centre. It's also only 200 ppi, which is typical of a scanner printer like that. Each flat is an 11x17 scan, so what you could do is what was suggested and place the file into a new INDD documwnt, crop the pages accordingly, and re-export a PDF. BUT you will need to change some settings, Since the PDF is already 200 ppi, do not re-downsample as that will make it look worse, so in Compression, leave all the settings at Do Not Downsample. Try at maximum quality at first, but if the resulting PDF is too large, you can reduce this setting until you get a file of a comfortable size.  The other thing you could do, is extract all the scans from the PDF and save them all as a TIF, and place those in a new InDesign document, which might be easier to work with in InDesign depending on what you want to do. Acrobat > File > Export To > Image > TIFF ... View more

When you say both documnets are CMYK, does that mean the PSD image as well?  If not, what Profile is Assigned to the RGB PSD, and was it saved with the profile embedded. Even if it is CMYK, what Profile is assigned to it (if different than your Working Space in your Color Settings)? When you PLACE the PSD (Linked), does the Link panel in Illustrator reflect the color Space assigned to the PSD? e.g:   ... View more

Yeah, this has been bugging me for years. I can tell you WHY it's happening, but I don't know any good way to prevent it from happening. Your text box first baseline is (probably) set to Ascent, so the top of the frame will start that way, as well as any subsequent columns will start that way, as in my example. Text wrap, however, wraps according to whether the entire linespace will fit under the wrap, which it doesn't in the first column. If you set your text box first baseline to leading, you can control it better, but of course that has the drawback of having your first line in the frame being lower than you want it. Not ideal. InDesign needs to rethink their wrap to maybe add the option to treat lines near a wrap in all columns like the first baseline. Not there yet, I'm afraid.   ... View more

"So here is a choice between quality and size. I cannot believe that there's no solution to this..." You can't create what doesn't exist. When you have a fixed pixel dimension required for your required final PNG, you only have that many pixels to work with. The quality will be exactly what that amount of pixels can generate... no better. Small type will be quite crude and even with antialiasing on, may be quite blurry. (and WITHOUT antialiasing, it will look even worse). This. Is. How. It. Is. That being said, the human eye is quite forgiving. For example, the road side digital billboards you see these days have about the same amount of pixels (and often, LESS) than what you are looking to create, but because of the distance we are from it, and our brains are filling in the details, it looks just fine. Go up close, and it's so so crude. When you are working with a vector program like Illustrator, objects are rendered for the output device.. so even when viewing on your monitor, you have so many more pixels to play with so the image is clearer. The more you zoom in, it only gets better. But this gives you a false impression of what it would look like when exported at smaller pixel dimesnsions. Illustrator has a Pixel Preview you should use. It will show you accurately what your final output result will be when exported 1-to-1 (i.e. 72ppi export) ... View more

Yes, fonts will need to be reinstalled. This isn't an issue with any fonts you used from Adobe Fonts, but any you installed previously in your System/Font Manager will have to be brought over.  Linked images will have to be relinked only because their File Path wil probably change on the new drive but if you have them in the same folder, that should be easy to relocate and relink. The big advice i have for you is make sure your IT people KEEP the old hardrive and not erase it. You can install this in an external enclosure and use it to copy over anything you might have forgotten, e.g. fonts or images. Once you are sure you're done with it, then it can be erased and used as a respectably-sized external storage, or a good drive to do System Backups to.   ... View more

I've checked your file and it does not have the .ai side in it at all. The .ai side starts with the phrase %!PS-Adobe-3.0 and follows the PDF code (seen in a Hex Editor). This does not exist in your file. I cannot reproduce the issue with Illustrator 29.5.1 in any test file I try, so I'm afraid that maybe it was saved without it by accident. I understand your desire to do it this way, but it's a dangerous way to work in my opinion. One slip, whether by you or by your client, and you've lost your .ai file.   ... View more

Yes. You can easily invoke the character directly: As @Scott Falkner has said for Mac, Option + Shift + ] will give you a sIngle closing quote. On a Win: Alt + Shift + ] (Auto smart quotes assume that a quote added after a space before a letter should be an opening single/double quote.) ... View more