Am I understaning that you are missing letters when printing via PDF? (You mention that printing directly from indesign you get correct result?) What application are you printing PDF from? (Please try printing from Acrobat if you can.) What PDF settings are you usning Please try PDFx1a nad PDFx4 if you have not already.. Are you subsetting fonts? (it's in the fonts tab in PDF settings)   ... View more

Pantone updates their references so yes they are a moving target. I would suggest to go away from Pantone and instead define your brand colours using CIE LAB that is device independent. This project was a way to define brand colours in a reliable way the methodoliogy is not bound to any product, brand or media. Hope you find it helpful https://www.projectbbcg.guide/ ... View more

I would be cautious with PDF with only profiles since there is a variety of results as to how files will render Black Point Compensation, and that setting has a big impact on the final result. LAB objects do not have a Colour Profile… but remember in today software there is no distinction between CIE Lab 2°/D50 or any other iluminant… and when you get really picky about colour that may be what breaks down the workflow. sRGB and Adobe RGB are D65 and most print profiles are D50… so there is a big amount of guesswork and assumptions. Note allso that using "Edit object" from the "Use print production" tools you can get the "Properties…" by Right-clicking on an object . This gives you the information about the objects colour space and lets you convert to another ICC, etc… but again no setting for Black Point Compensation. (And all LAB assumes same illuminant.) ... View more

LAB rendering intent is set in the Colour settings, note that this is for new documents and that when you open a document this may have other settings and you may want to  look at the Assign Document Profiles. The Solid colour rednering intent and the After-Blending intent both play in.  I would recommend using Perceptual for Solid intet if you have LAB since I don't see an option for Black Point Complensation. After Blending intent comes into paly when you have transparent objects. It is complicated and many parameters.  ... View more

I needed to do another version ... View more

Wanted to be transparent with the use of Ai, so decided to have a screenshot of the layers, before I embedded the screenshot. ... View more

This is old, but you shouldbe able to "flatten form fields" and then you will have a new PDF to uppload.  From the Preflight panel in the Use print production there is a fixup to "Flatten annotations and form fields" ... View more

It is still possible to Print to a PostScript and use distiller, this requires installing a Generic Postscript printer… it is not the recommended workflow. I am  sorry I don't have a workflow that uses Acrobat Standard, but in Acrobat Pro there is a preflight action to converta a file to grayscale, choose Analyse and fix. Search more tools find Preflight panel (Normaly under Print Production) and apply the fixup Digital Print Greyscale ... View more

You can measure the values in the separation preview in InDesign and Acrobat. Are the swatches in RGB, make sure you are using same RGB, if hex codes RGB should be sRGB (Since hex codes should conform to web sRGB standard). You will also find that rendeing intent and blackpoint. The simplest presets would be to use the regional general purpose setting. while the "prepress settings" seem superior they will give a missmatch in blues between print and web if you intend to use hex codes to define colours. (The Prepress settings are great for images that are using relative colometric rendering AND you are using prrof colours to see that you don't clip colours… but RGB values must be converted to sRGB to get the correct colour on web. Also inputting RGB values in most cases assumes sRGB as RGB workspace) ... View more

True, but Operating system can sometimes be more of a problem… I was sugesting this not as a workflow but as a workaround from limitations opposed by Operating System if read/write privilages were causing the error.  It is also hard to determine which folders are included in: "Note: Illustrator does not support network or removable drives as scratch disks, or folders of file sync services such as Dropbox, Google Drive, and icloud." from the link @Monika Gause shared. ... View more

The top object is not a rectange because in the layer I can see it starts "<C..." would be good to see the layers panel a bit more clearly to trouble shoot.  ... View more

Where are you saving to. Could be a file premissions issue. Try saving to an external USB drive (they are usually not protected by software as other places on the computer and they normally don't sync to cloud services as iCloud or OneDrive)  ... View more

Sounds like an OS issue with premissions to files or folders since it is one account that works and another doesn't. ... View more

Even if you are not conciously working on the cloud do you have OneNote or iCloud that is working in the background?  (Apple and Microsoft guide users to activate these without you making a concious decission and it does require intent NOT to have a Cloud service). Are you typing in InDesign or are you importing texts from word? If you have text linked to word documents and you edit content updating the links will lose the edits done in InDesign. There are plugins like EM Software, Docsflow which allow better syncing between word and InDesign where changes made in InDesign are honoured.  Another issue that could revert to an older document (but again here it would be the whole older document) is if you have some kind of backup service, but that would mean restoring older versions. If it is a workflow issue, but you have to be honest about how the work is happen trying to pinpoint the fault in the workflow without pointing blame as that may make it difficult to figure out where or when the problem occurrs.   Could you better describe the kind of "mistakes" that you are reffereing to. If id is formating that is overridden to correct a wrong formating, canceling overrides would cayse that formating to re appear.  ... View more

You can place an indesign file in an indesign file, or a cloud asset, as long as the file is available it will update (or ask to be updated) when you open the file with the link. (You can also place a linked text, xml and/or insert HTML code, but I think CC Library Asset is the simplest if available to you) ... View more

I think InDesign assumes that you want to make a design system, and in that way is different in how other applications have done the gradient tool. Building a style guide you will for colours use Swatches which are in effect "Colour Styles", though they are not called that. The idea is you drag from your working palette of colours (in your swatches) to your gradient panel. (yes if you are used to Illsutrator where you can click on the gradient you are dissapointed) An alternative way is to create a gradient swatch… then once you edit a Gradient Swatch you will see that you can add colour stops from any colour model as well as change their,  Swatch, RGB, CMYK, LAB, Spot colour… (Unlike Illustrator or Photoshop there is not the option to define transparency on a colour stop, but there is a special type of gradient called the gradient feather.) I understand that you may be frustrated by these limitations if you are expecting the flexibility of Photoshop or Illustrator gradients. I hope this helps you manage what you have. If you want to formulate what you want there is a User Voice or Feature request that you can share your comments on https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/36080107-indesign-gradient-tool  ... View more

There are some dissadvantages with a retina monitor 😉 What I do with guides/grid is to create a new layer that I set to non-printing and block out to create areas instead of guides. Non printing layers are hidden when you preview, export and/or print. But also as @James Gifford—NitroPress  said change the colour of the layer to someting that works for you. ... View more

Note that cloud services like iCloud and OneDrive may be archiving/removing files they no longer consider you need or to free up space. Never save important files in your downloads folder but place them in a known place.   ... View more

I guess you can set a nested style or GREP style that makes the 6th word too large to fit in the frame causing an overset. You would have two paragraph styles theobject style setting to "first" and Next style of "first" should be "following" (and followingdoes not have that GREP or Nested style) ... View more

If they are hairlines caused by anti aliasing they normally will not print. Ofcourse you want to check that. If you turn off  "smooth images", "Smooth graphics" and "enhance thin lines" in Page view in Acrobat you will disable anitaliasing and your lines should dissapear (the page may be sligtly more pixelated but since device pixels are at a higher resolution this will not be a problem in print).   Only use spot colours if your printer has a propper RIP or you are planning to print in spot colours.    When they are printing at a customer a PDFx4 would be better as @Willi Adelberger  says. Though you say you have tried using PDF/x4? Also you need to confirm how they are printing (getting the PDF correct i only half way). For best results print from Acrobat Pro. If need be there is in Acrobat a Advanced setting to Print as Image.  So to help you further we/you need to figure out when this happens. For this we would need to more about the design and more about the printer and that you confirm that you are printing from Acrobat and no other PDF reader.  It is more common if you have designs with transparency. If possible put text above transparent objects (including PNG or Photoshop with transparency). Use the transparency flattener to find risk zones in your design. (https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/flattening-transparent-artwork.html) ... View more

Ok this is extreeme but it shows the disconnect. According to the sliders it should be a red hue but even selecting green does not adjust slider values     Looked some more and it seems that the colour wheel is disconnected from the sliders. Compare the hue cube hue  value (29) with the sliders (9)   If you enter colour wheel the sliders and wheel are in sync. Updating sliders or the wheel will set the colour. But they are disconnected. Updating the wheel will not affect slider sliders will not affect the wheel. Seems only workaround is to change mode of the colour panel AFTER selecting colour to sync the GUI of the Color Panel ... View more

I see there are many with this issue. What colour management profiles do you use. Also are you using software to manipulate your monitors colour like "night light" affecting the blues. The shape of the gamut of the colour profile is the most likeley. Also would be good to know if you are working in 8, 16 or 32 bits. (Not sure how well that would work in 32 bit since it has to do with display of your monitor)  Is the missmatch in HSB mode only or do you et similar results if you switch to other formats of colour picker. ... View more

Select the text. From text menu select create outline. You can also select object expand.   ... View more

Hmm Ton, you got me thinking there. The logo at the top has no border but the larger logo has a border, may be that the site is upploading and resampling the PNG and that is when the border is created.   If you right click on the large logo (with a border) it says the file is saved as "palmblushlogo_40959fb0-e623-4a1f-92aa-67ddf05ebf2a_480x480.avif" and that's not the PNG ... View more

You can ofcourse use express as a sketching tool and use that feature. ... View more

Adobe Colour and/or recolour artwork tools has presets for different colour harmonies.. Complimentary colours is one of these. Now if they are multi colour, that can be tricky since there is a variation and how do you want to find the complimentary if there is variance, is it the complimentary to the average if you mix them all up?  ... View more

If it is large scale and not intended to be read as a broschure you don't need to have the same resolution as print book/broschure/leaflet as also Bobby mentions. Start from a PDF-X setting and then change the resolution to 150ppi. ... View more

Ok you mean not around the logo itself but around the square containging the PNG. The same is true, it has to do with alpha transparency and rounding off pixels. Make sure that you are using a pixel perfect file size of your artboard. if there is arounding off to the nearest pixel the artboard and the transparent mask are not whole number pixels. creating this. If a PNG file is scaled this may also occur. ... View more

The PNG format uses Alpha transparency to mask/hide transparent pixels. How the alpha transparency is rendered may be creating the outline artifacts. ... View more