There's only one way to find out... Set every capital letter of the alphabet in Photoshop, create all 8 iterations of rotation and flipping for each, then gaussian blur them all, increasing the radius until they're all indistinguishable. The last one wins. I bet it'll be P. ... View more

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Cyndee+M  wrote So the problem is obviously within this document, but as the spots come from outside ads, there is no way for me to remove them (other than converting all ads to CMYK first in Acrobat -- a lot of files to process). Is there any other option? You might have already considered this, but if you're regularly creating 80 page publications filled with the supplied ads, I think you'll benefit hugely from preflighting them all with Acrobat before placing them in InDesign. You could use one of the built in profiles (maybe tweaked a little for your purposes), make a Preflight droplet and drag all those ads into it (maybe overnight). You won't look back! ... View more

My guess is nothing. It will have been inherited from the classic page setup icon, where maybe the fact that it's the first letter of 'page' was relevant, but I think the main reason the capital P was chosen is because when it's flipped and rotated in different ways, they look particularly distinct from one another. ... View more

tamsint97516221  wrote So it seems we should probably be using ISOnewspaper26v4.icc instead of Fogras39 - will try that and see if it helps. Is it possible to set that colour profile as default in an Indesign template - so it doesn't default to that system wide? We send a lot of other jobs to printers calibrated to the FOGRAS39 profile - normally we haven't changed this - and we're a bit concerned that if we have to keep changing output profiles jobs might get sent to printer with the wrong one. Yes. The ISOnewspaper26v4.icc profile is very common for newspaper ad specifications in the UK. I don't know about the rest of Europe. You can assign the profile to any Indesign file, including INDD templates. Edit > Assign Profiles. ... View more

If you take a screenshot and place it back into Illustrator, that's what I'd expect to see (unless the screenshot has your monitor profile assigned to it, and you're keeping that profile when you place it). Is there any particular purpose for the screenshot that wouldn't be better served by Export For Screens or Save For Web? ... View more

As Test Screen Name wrote, if you're printing straight from InDesign, the default paper sizes come from the PPD. Also, the correct PPD depends on which server you have attached to the Xerox (Fiery or one of Xerox's own). Do you know which it is? But you might be better off exporting to PDF and dropping that in the server, to save the unnecessary conversion to PostScript. ... View more

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Monika+Gause  wrote I don't see a reason why they should be looking that way. Other than the other person had set up their color management inappropriately when making them. And then never checking the result. That's almost certainly what happened. Out of all the colour specifications I see in brand guidelines, only a small but increasing minority are done properly. I was guessing that they'd started with too dull a CMYK profile (SWOP Coated maybe), and if I fill a CMYK Photoshop document with those CMYK values, I have to assign a newsprint profile to get them as dull as that RGB patch. ... View more

When the CMYK values are the 'bible', best practice is to establish what CMYK profile those values are intended for (for instance PSO Coated/FOGRA51), and convert to sRGB (using Ton's method). Then, if there are any off-blacks resulting from 'pure black' (100% K) being used, it's usually better to change it to R0 G0 B0 (Mike's advice will help with that) Do these files have ICC profiles embedded? ... View more

csavanha  wrote Yes, the print company asked for the final design in InDesign so I figured it would be easier to use this application rather than Illustrator and re-editing in InDesign. I'm almost certain that is a miscommunication. Are you more familiar with Illustrator? If so, you should call them back and make absolutely sure they wouldn't prefer an Illustrator PDF, AI or EPS. If you've not done packaging design before, this is probably going to be only your first hurdle. ... View more

maritb  wrote Unfortunately so far I still can't figure out what's going on. At least two people have told you exactly what's going on. The blue you've used is unprintable and must be changed to a CMYK swatch. ... View more

Is the page you've posted the right-hand page of a spread? And is the blue background image in a frame that spans the whole spread? If so, you could try Cut, Paste In Place, and adjust it to fit one page, Paste in Place again and fit it to the other. ... View more

This sounds like a fairly easy fix in the Xitron, if it's as similar to other Harlequins (like ECRMs) as I think. In short (without me walking around to our ECRM to check the exact steps), the first thing I'd try is, look at the Page Setups for the presses that are working fine, look what Separation Style they're using, and make sure the one for the press you're having trouble with is the same. ... View more

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giovannim8927068  wrote This has more to do with how the overprint resulted in the PDF. It's how the overprint resulted in the Postscript, not the PDF. The issue is happening when Illustrator has to translate your artwork into that legacy language. When you save straight to PDF, as recommended, you avoid that translation, and the issue. ... View more

giovannim8927068  wrote I can print to postscript (my preferred way) to create a PDF Now's the time to abandon that preference. The longer you leave it, the more time you'll lose when the inevitable happens and you have no choice. ... View more

It's really there... not that I'd advise tinkering with it, though! ... View more

Macintosh HD⁩/Applications⁩/⁨Adobe InDesign CC 2019⁩/Adobe InDesign CC 2019⁩/Contents⁩⁩/Resources⁩/ID_SplashCC.png (and ID_SplashCC@2x.png) I presume that’s the file to replace, but I’m waiting on my f***ing lazy cat to come back with something better before I actually try it. ... View more

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Mariam+Hovhannessian  wrote Try to save photoshop file in maximum quality jpeg or png No. Don't use lossy formats to take into InDesign. Use PSD or perhaps TIFF. https://forums.adobe.com/people/Mariam+Hovhannessian  wrote save as illustrator file in 600dpi png No. Save your Illustrator file as a vector AI or PDF. https://forums.adobe.com/people/Mariam+Hovhannessian  wrote then make your full design in indesign and save your file as 600dpi No. Save your file as a resolution independent PDF. https://forums.adobe.com/people/Mariam+Hovhannessian  wrote think that's the best way to work I'd struggle to invent a worse way to work! ... View more

https://forums.adobe.com/people/John+Mensinger  wrote Try to save photoshop file in maximum quality jpeg or png . . . then make your full design in indesign. When the image destination is an InDesign layout for print, there is no reason to save in any format other than Photoshop's native.psd. Everything about Mariam's post was wrong! ... View more

samueld6911674  wrote when you mean "set in photoshop" you mean created in photoshop, correct? i.e. text or shapes that I create using the ps type tool or the pen tool, respectively. On the other hand, anything linked to a photoshop file, such as an illustrator file, will always raster -- I'm assuming. You got it! ... View more

In addition to Monika's accurate information, vector shapes and live type set in Photoshop (but not vectors in smart objects) do remain vector, but only if you save the Photoshop files as PDF. ... View more

If there was ever any 'rule', it was the opposite - serif for body, sans for headings. Personally, I wouldn't set body text in a magazine as large as 12pt. It feels like speaking to people condescendingly slow. 9-10pt is usually my starting point. ... View more

View > Overprint Preview, and post a screenshot. It should look something like below. It's barely noticeable, but the black stroke looks slightly darker on the side that overprints the blue and red fills. ... View more

kimk35462561  wrote Hi, In InDesign, I usually use File>Adobe PDF presets>High Quality Print (I also tried Press Quality, and customized my own) to create a PDF. And have you tried printing that PDF from Acrobat (sorry if I'm missing something from your list). Regarding the Postscript drivers, it appears that you aren't, and as a Mac user, I'm not sure I can tell you how to. We have an eStudio here as a general office printer, and the default Mac driver is Postscript. But the Windows guys here use PCL. There are quite a few options here: https://electronicimaging.toshiba-europe.com/publicsite-service/driver/downloads?cID=12525906-38f4-425f-bb22-66468525d3dd&vkey=pstuis&lang=en&locale=en_EN&envi= ... View more

Have you tried exporting the InDesign document as PDF (never print to PDF from InDesign), then printing that from Acrobat? Also, are you printing from Indesign using the Toshiba's Postscript driver? ... View more

Steven_nl  wrote yeah I saw that 2 copies of the magazine had slightly different colors. No contact proof as far as I know. My money's definitely on the cast being introduced on press. If they supply a contract proof that looks correct, they're much more obliged to match it on press. ... View more

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Frans+van+der+Geest+%28ACP%29  wrote That is why I was thinking: if a CM setting was used like Europe Pre Press 3 (with Adobe RGB as RGB color space) and the image did NOT have a profile but was in sRGB, then it would be blown up to Adobe RGB and that would show oversaturation in the CMYK version as well... You'll have the same problem either way with untagged images, in which case I'd say sRGB is the safer guess. The OP did say 'I export them as High res jpg's 300dpi sRGB (AdobeRGB is possible as well)', though. The tagged images will be fine, as Europe Prepress 3 preserves embedded profiles. ... View more