Shut everything down for the night and get a fresh start tomorrow...or reboot and then see if you can export a PDF and print it. Without a screen shot of the page, the layers panel open, etc., no one knows what you are working with. Take care, Mike ... View more

Likewise, I've done some fairly complicated illustrations using only InDesign's native illustration tools - but I'd rather eat glass professionally than do so on a regular basis. Yeppers. @ ddziadiw, You need to find out what made the packaging and go from there. Pick the appropriate software based upon that. Mike ... View more

I would then just use Illustrator. ID is really made for longer, structured documents. Take care, Mike ... View more

If you are doing anything for print or web publications longer than X number pages (artboards in Illustrator) you should consider InDesign. Both work well together--AI for illustrations, art--ID for page layout of the textual elements, bringing in the art from AI. I have done multi-page documents in AI, but it isn't something I would like to do on a consistent basis. But it all really depends on what you are producing. Mike ... View more

So the gist is that if you need to pickup color in AI, the images need to be embedded. But the output to a CMYK PDF using the correct output profile will produce accurate color in the PDF: Mike ... View more

as i mentioned, I get the same results embedding the cmyk jpg as the cmyk psd versus linked so use which ever works for your purpose. the eye dropper works for me on windows. don't know if platform makes a difference or not. mike ... View more

No one said you are a noob. At least that's not my reading of the other responses and it certainly wasn't my intention. While you can certainly have a CMYK JPG, why not place (and embed) the PSD? Just curious... That said, I get the exact behavior with a CMYK JPG as I get with a CMYK PSD for the linked versus embedded versions. That is, the linked CMYK JPG is off in color (black is a rich black for instance). The embedded version is correct (black is the correct percentage of K only). Mike ... View more

Linked: Embedded: I cannot remember if whether this was an issue pre-CS6 and I don't have earlier versions installed on this laptop any longer. I have always embedded PSD files anyway so don't know whether I would have noticed. The above are the same image. I dragged an dropped from the folder it was in and it was linked. First image by default was linked and the color is off. The PSD is CMYK (it is a color chart, actually). Clicking the Embed button results in the second image. Personally I think this is a bug. I cannot imagine this is by design. Mike ... View more

Is your PSD linked or embedded? If linked, try embedding it. Do this in a copy of your working document. Then shift-click on your black and report what it reads. Take care, Mike ... View more

What version of CD? What version of AI? Have you tried just opening an AI file in CD? Mike ... View more

If not wanting to use Scale except for the largest of large, use CorelDraw with its limitations of 150 feet by 150 feet. Having used CD for such work since the early 1990s--I still use scale. Depending upon the average viewing distance, any bitmaps or bitmap effects may not need to be some arbitrary 300 dpi. Might be more, might be less. If anyone wants a spreadsheet I wrote that uses a common formula for scaling the page and images/bitmap effects for large format printing, I can upload it. Take care, Mike ... View more

First hit in Google: http://www.atozaudio.com/html/offsetcasstemplates.html Second Google hit for dimensions: http://www.crystalclearcds.com/artspecs/templates/cassette.php Take care, Mike ... View more

pastebin is only for a crash report . upload your document package to dropbox.com or wikisend.com and you can copy a download link to send to peter via a private message. mike ... View more

Yep, print and web design. I don't think I am dismissing Adobe's ePub advancement. But everything I have done in that regard is for Kindle and the fastest means to that end I have posted. Yes, if, like Peter mentioned, I owned a full suite, I would likely look into the cloud as much as I dislike the concept. And that goes for DPS as well. But I don't have clients beating down the door (zero, actually) requesting even a quote for anything beyond simple ePubs. Nope, didn't know about the dividends. But in the main, stability in the revenue stream means it is more attractive to stock purchases and that likely makes more money for Adobe than software sales, or at least greatly enhances the overall picture. I'll leave the thread alone now. Take care, Mike ... View more

Peter, For ePub in its current state or capability, I will continue to use Jutoh. I have gotten Word and LibreOffice files from clients, they import great and away I go. Where I will invest money in Adobe in this regard is if and when I need to build something interactive using DPS or whatever App maker is on Adobe's horizon. But not for simple ePubs. Take care, Mike ... View more

No, it means that sometime within the next year I will upgrade again simply because I do not desire to be forced to pay full retail later on should I purposefully or accidentally skip an upgrade. If I didn't ever have to return native files, I would stay at CS5.5. Pretty dang stable here. I have no past/current customers using CS6. My decision to upgrade at this time was simply having the spare cash else I would have put it off for a while longer. Once CS7 is out, and if I were to have a client using it, I would use their deposit to upgrade too. But should I not get a client using CS7--and from past history, none of them are using the latest/greatest anyway--then I will upgrade sometime after its release and once I have spare cash or at least before CS8 (or if Adobe pulls the .5 thing again). I hope you didn't take anything I wrote as whining. Didn't mean for it to come across that way. Adobe is perfectly free to do anything they want in my eyes. I may or may not like it, but it is their choice. I did have a chuckle about your last sentance. Any enhancement from a greater revenue stream mostly goes to the stock holders, as well as an attempt to even out their quarterly reports for Wall Street. Judging from the past several versions, they are spending no more effort on programming from one version to the next. With the exception lately being throwing resources (time and money) into a cloud platform <g>. Take care, Mike ... View more

Except for people like me, Bob. I only use, and will likely only use, ID and AI. It's break even at that point re the perpetual versus cloud licensing (the $30 cloud price). Budgeting for me can be as simple as skipping Starbucks several times a month and putting the money into a jar--and if I must, spare change. Same would apply to paying for the cloud service...but I am opposed to the cloud. Take care, Mike ... View more

I think Peter is simply being realistic about Adobe's "reality." Adobe has made it an all or nothing proposition. RE the manuals. Do you really need physical manuals? As far as I know, you can download the PDFs. However, I find that the help here is usually more pertinent to a user's particular issue than combing through a manual. Usually a search here pulls up exactly what I have needed. If this works for you, save a buck or two and skip the manuals. I feel your (financial) pain. I really wanted to put off the CS6 ID and Illy upgrades for a while longer. Budgeting for upgrades is to me like setting aside money for taxes. I don't like it, but I have to do it. Over the past 6 months, I have had to upgrade  a dozen or so software titles. Without saving up for it, I doubt I could have done so. Take care, Mike ... View more