Anything with CS3 as a reference is pretty old! profiles should be adapted to your final output intend, as this avoids a transcoding of colours (blacks) and gives the most accurate results. But as long as the profile is attached to the PDF, you should be good with any profile. (This is, I'm aware of it, not completly correct...) ... View more

Look at this: Dot gain | what is it and how to compensate for it and this Setting Up Your Images for Final Output > Getting the Best Grayscales in Photoshop CS3 ... View more

low-med-high is probably the only kind of sharpening you need. To be able to put sharpening in 100 steps does not mean, that I use those 100 steps. ... View more

It seems so. I have however never tried it out. CS5 was outdated when Adobe started with CC. We bought CS1 and upgraded since then gradually to CS5. Just before I wanted to change to CS7, Adobe dropped the upgrade paths and introduced the lease model. I waited, but we now did the step into the subscription model, because partners all needed to save their files in the IDML format, before passing them on. In addition, the web-tools (Dreamweawer, Flash) where helplessly outdated. In in the final, I got the budget... ... View more

Compatibility: Not officially, but it runs (well at least CS5). InDesign is not such a software that you would expect to fail. I suppose that I could get version 1.0 running on Win10. It's foolish to pay 700$, except if you use it for 2 years and you really need only InDesign 6.0. We used InDesign 5.0 for quite some time before changing. We changed to CC, because collaboration was getting difficult. This could also be a reason taking the subscription... ... View more

InDesign CS5 is compatible with Windows 10 and I doubt that InDesign CS6 would I do not be running. I do not know however about Mac OS, The software will work on a new computer, but you my have activation problems. But as Steve states, it's bad value for the money. Go for inDesign CC. ... View more

Adobe is highly successful with the subscription model. If you do not want that, you need to quit and go over to DxO or similar. But the photographers plan has a lot to offer. My guess is that LR7 will not come out and LR6 will be the last perpetual license. But I may be wrong on this. BTW: Adobe is learning as they risked to loose photographers. So they made a special package only for those. And that one is a cheap one, if I look at my other running costs. My cameras cost a lot more... ... View more

Yes, Adobe could have choosen 1/111", but they choose 72 because of the reasons above. The defined the 1/72" defacto standard. That's why we stick with 72 and not some other number. ... View more

From Wikipedia: Dots per inch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Since the 1980s, the Microsoft Windows operating system has set the default display "DPI" to 96 PPI, while Apple/Macintosh computers have used a default of 72 PPI. [3] These default specifications arose out of the problems rendering standard fonts in the early display systems of the 1980s, including the IBM-based CGA, EGA, VGA and 8514 displays as well as the Macintosh displays featured in the 128K computer and its successors. The choice of 72 PPI by Macintosh for their displays arose from the convenient fact that the official 72 points per inch mirrored the 72 pixels per inch that appeared on their display screens. (Points are a physical unit of measure in typography, dating from the days of printing presses, where 1 point by the modern definition is 1/72 of the international inch (25.4 mm), which therefore makes 1 point approximately 0.0139 in or 352.8 µm). Thus, the 72 pixels per inch seen on the display had exactly the same physical dimensions as the 72 points per inch later seen on a printout, with 1 pt in printed text equal to 1 px on the display screen. and an other one: Point (typography) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Desktop publishing point The desktop publishing point (DTP point) or PostScript point is defined as 1 ⁄ 72 or 0.0138 of the international inch, making it equivalent to 0.3527 mm. Twelve points make up a pica, and six picas make an inch. This specification was developed by John Warnock​  and Charles Geschke​  when they created Adobe PostScript​ . It was adopted by Apple Computer as the standard for the display resolution of the original Macintosh desktop computer and the print resolution for the LaserWriter printer. ...and that's the reason why 72 is the magic number and used by InDesign. ... View more

There is always confusion about dpi, pixel size and image size in inches or mm! A Photoshop picture has always a size of x pixels by y pixels. This does not change if you are changing its mm value or its dpi value and those are interconnected. Making a picture smaller in mm/inch will get up the resolution value and vice versa. It is important to understand, that in this case, the image does not change, but only the interpretation of some parameters. If however, you change the dpi value or the mm/inch value independently from each other, Photoshop needs to resample the image, ie adapting the amount of pixels the image has. The whole hype comes from the printing industry, where (incorrectly expressed) a picture needs 300dpi for print. This is related to the printing process used. A lower resolution image will be smaller shown as a high resolution image at 300dpi. The 72dpi for screen viewing comes from the initial Macintosh computers, where the screen fitted exactly 72 screen pixels into one inch. Newer screens have a much higher resolution. This means that the 72dpi is quite obsolete and no figure you can rely on. ... View more

Correct. Singapore uses simplified Chinese. I say that copy/paste works fine for me. I do not say, that it's the best solution. I have problems with placing Word files however, Thats why I do not like that. My first Chinese typesetting is more then 20 years ago. 1 month ago I did severeal Chinese brochures. It's the same as doing Russian, except that the text is hell a lot shorter. ... View more

Simplified Chinese is used in Peoples Republic. Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapure and some more use Traditional Chinese. They differ from my amateurish point of view from the complexity of the signs. Japanese fonts tend to have a few Chinese characters in, but they are by far not as complete as needed for typesetting Chinese. You will see, when hitting a Japanese font... ... View more

I do copy paste from Word to InDesign and even back with my Chinese text and that works fine. If your font does not support the Chinese character set completly, you will see it. High quality Chinese font sets are expensive and not easy to find. But there exists a free font from Google (Google Noto Fonts ) and from Adobe (same font but different name). My Chinese collegues are happy with those. There are others coming with Windows, but most do not have bold character sets (like Arial...). I used those formerly, doing bold as an added outline. It works, but is tricky. Corrections to the Chinese Text may even be done via PDF. My collegues put corrections as comments, and I replace copy/paste the parts. If your workflow however is to place Word files, that works also fine. If I have mixed text (ie tradenames in Latin characters in the Chinese text) and some English text in a 2 language document, I use a grep style to adjust the Latin text in the Chinese to be changed to my standard font. We typeset whole image brochures that way. Word wrap ist mostly no issue. Only rarly do my Chinese collegues correct that. But each time they get text to read, they change one or to Chinese signs. Tipp: if you are lost in Chinese use Google translate to get an idea on the current text meaning. 2nd Tipp: Chinese is very compact. If the text fits in English, it will fit in Chinese. ... View more

CRs shouldn't be necessary. Either you place an image in-line so that it moves with the text (Anchored Object): This is sometimes useful, especially with icons and other small graphics. Or you create a frame and place the image in that frame (respectively you create the frame during image placing). In both cases you can add a text wrap to that frame, so that the text flows neatly around the frame, the way you select it. You may even include images with an alpha channel and wrap around that channel. ... View more

That's what I say: Lightroom is not designed to be multi-user on the same catalog. You will corrupt your data or if you are lucky, you will be able to see only modifications from one side. It's a pity, but it's as designed. ... View more

You canot assume to edit safely the same database (Lightroom catalog) with a different set of data (pictures). This gets easily unmanagable. You can only use dropbox if and only if you are editing the same picture set (on an external disk or NAS) on 2 different machines, poroviding, that you do not use both systems at the same time. For mobile to workstation work, I strongly recommend my work pattern. ... View more

This is not quite true (but not entirely false). The problem is data integrety when accessing the data at the same time from 2 sides. And this happens, when synchronizing of the data is slow. Your method makes Dropbox practically ununsable, as the catalog may use some space. ... View more

The drawback of my method is avoiding to edit pictures on the workstation and later on my Laptop, as I do not copy back the data to my external disk. If it is necessary to do so, I can import Laptop modified files as a clone. Works fine for me. ... View more

A huge resolution is not a big screen. The resolution only means that the screen is sharp as a razor and fine details can be represented like in print. But the surface is still limited unfortunately! ... View more

I have a 17" Laptop with a 500Gb SSD and a 1Tb HDD, but still I use an external drive to store my (Lightroom) pictures as this gives me the opportunity to import the Lightroom database (import photos from a different Lightroom catalog) directly to my desktop work- and back-up station. So I would anyhow recommend an external disk. They are small nowadays and draw their power from the computer and you may even use a SSD. Just be careful to have enough disk space, so that you do not need to change to soon. ... View more

Except that the screen will be very compact (which is an advantage and a disadvantage at the same time): yes. ... View more

Yes. But if you buy the license, you will be able to use encore without reinstalling. Premiere is also "crippled" as some codecs are not working. But at least you can try the software! ... View more