Could it be a GREP style badly defined or used? What happens if you write yourself (not paste) 2h 60°C éthanol 95% (4h 60°C) in a text box? ... View more

Some this have been already recommende but as a summary:   "Save as" (this makes wonders, really) Delete any unused element you might have left in the canvas / working table (specially pictures). Delete any unneeded master page that might have 'heavy' elements Clean the XML Structure. It might be full of unused / duplicated elements. This one might be a forgotten real pain in the ass when it comes to absurd troubles. Anyway Splitting into an InDesign Book document (indb) is best practice   Best regards ... View more

In the "File - Print" or "File - Export - (as PDF)" Dialogues ... View more

This is a very common confusion when starting to work for printing: The size of the final page, the trimmed page and the size of the sheet of paper (a "paper page" as well in a common desktop printer) are two different things. You need the Sheet to be bigger than the final page, the trimmed one. That excess is to leave place for printer marks and bleed (besides, printers that print up to the very border are not the most common ones). That's why you canot print a final trimmed A4 page in a A4 printer if you are doing bleeded work. And that's why there is a set of ISO papers called the SRA series. (From Wikipedia) "These paper series are untrimmed raw paper. RA stands for “raw format A” and SRA stands for “supplementary raw format A”. The RA and SRA formats are slightly larger than the corresponding A series formats. This allows bleed (ink to the edge) on printed material that will be later cut down to size. These paper sheets will after printing and binding be cut to match the A format." ... View more

Selecting the checkboxes "Page information" and "Include Slug area" in the section "Marks" of "Marks and bleeds" adds the name of the document , the number ofthe page and the time it was printed / exported in each page. ... View more

They were opened. From the menu "Open as..." but you've got to say "All files" instead of "All readable files". ... View more

I have InDesign CS6 at my workplace. If you send a ZIP file to me, I could try opening & saving them as IDML. Use the contact form at my website ( http://www.gusgsm.com/contact/feedback )   The offer is free of charge and responsability: Unzip, open & convert, no more 😉   Best regards ... View more

If you are printing in CMYK you should, as Derek told you, preview your work in CMYK. To be precise: In the same flavour of CMYK your printer is going to use (or the most similar one as possible). For that, ask your printer about "The CMYK ICC profile".   ...so the bright greens are a bit of a must!! If you are printing in a common type of commercial printing that uses CMYK, you are not going to get a very bright kind of green unless you go for an spot ink that has a bright (fluorescent?) hue of green. But that's not so cheap. Once again: Ask your printer.     ... View more

"it is very pixelated when i place into indesign": If the link is not lost, it only looks pixelated. If you need to see it perfect, just select the "High quality preview". Be warned that displaying all the vector files in high quality can be very processor-demanding. ... View more

Has anybody changed its color to white? (I've seen stranger things) ... View more

Aside, if I may Having more than one text thread flowing page after page is not a very good design practice unless you are doing a multilingual magazine or book... and even then, as it could become a cumbersome reading flow. ... View more

Hi I had a similar trouble with a newspaper printed in salmon coloured paper and I got away with it by measuring the colour of the paper with a ColorMunki Design (a quite reasonably-priced spectrophotometer) and the setting the Lab values as the colour of the paper  in InDesign (as recommended above). As the cardboard has a texture, you might use a picture and the set/tweak in Photoshop the main colour values using the data obtained as I said above (I had to average a set of papers, by the way because the colour was quite inconsistent from one batch to another). As this is a picture and not "the colour of the [paper] swatch", you would have to use a layer for this. In this case, you might get a better result by using "Darken" blend mode instead of "multiply" for the layer That said, it is as good as it gets an inhouse solution McGyver Style. Don't expect awesome accuracy. Best regards Ps. corrected because of typos. ... View more

Use Acrobat to change CropBox and add "Displacement Y" as needed. Best regards ... View more

If you have already done many PDF and you don't want to remake them to add the slug area (best way to make it right away), you may add that space by altering the CropBox in Acrobat (not Reader). Just go to tools in Print production area and select "Set page Boxes). There, change Page size as custom (1), Add the needed excess (20 mm for 10 mm, etc.) to the new page size (2), select all pages (3). There you are (4) ... View more

Hi, InDesign Colour management is complex and sometimes, given the improper combination of circumstances, what should work does not work. In any case, the preserve numbers/ appearance explanation applies. So, disregarding InDesign not asking in this particular situation, if you paste from one document into another and the software shows a noticeable change of colours, that means that both documents have a different colour profile (either RGB or CMYK). That's called a profile mismatch. The change of appearance is InDesign trying to translate that difference of colour profiles and showing it in the screen. Depending on the difference between both profiles, the difference could be rather evident or not. If both profiles are very similar OR the destination colour profile is much bigger than the source one, that difference could be not noticeable or almost. Besides, both profiles can be very similar in size as colour spaces but their aspect could vary (one more yellowish than the other, for instance). So, what you are seeing, is InDesign trying to show you that in screen. If you want to know the source profiles, open Document 1 and got to "Edit - Convert to profile" and take note of the source profiles for RGB and CMYK. Now got to Document 2 and make the same. Compare. I'd bet RGB or/and CMYK do not match between 1 and 2. If so... That's is what it is: Colour profiles are different colour spaces. You can think of them as 3D shapes. Some are bigger and some are very limited. Colours are points in those 3D spaces. When you translate between them, sometimes there is no correspondence in those points and InDesign (or Photoshop or...) try their best to adapt that difference with different approaches (rendering intents, but that's way too long to tell now). To cut a long story short: If the destination colour space is similar, you may adapt the difference in colour with minor tweaks. If not, life sucks and you do not have enough colours in the destination space. Life and colour will be duller. Adapt your design. Hope it helps somehow ... View more

To me it sounds a bit odd, I have prepared some PDF files to show in projections as interactive PDF from InDesign and I have never had this issue eventhough I saved and placed native Illustrator files. As a matter of fact, the font of a placed illustrator file in the resuting PDF from InDesign (created as Interactive PDF), is seen by PitStop as "embedded subset" (latest CC versions of ID and Illustrator). The reason of this workflow may come from the fact that as soon as you have a lot of text and pages, InDesign is much better behaved than illustrator. ..files are exporting with (rasterise?) Settings at 300dpi... What for? You are not rasterizing anything in Illustrator, are you? Which versions are you using? Would you mind reopening the final PDF in Illustrator and see if the pìxelated text is still text? Best regards ... View more

Crop the images inside the Illustrator files (Illustrator -> Object -> Crop). Your version has to be CC something (CS and downwards has not this feature included). ... View more

Aside from the need of resampling to the best resolution/quality balance, there's one little rub when placing in InDesign Illustrator files with pictures inside. And it is that some very nice features of InDesign does not seem to reach / work with the pictures inside the placed files. At least in some versions (right now using CS6 of Illustrator and InDesign). In this case it could be that the "Image Data to Frames" is not cropping the pictures and you have not cropped them in Photoshop to fit the frames the best possible way. Hence the difference if weight. I've just tested this (so as to check that mey memory was not AWOL) and the difference between both ways of working was 2 Mb to 7'9 Mb in a very simple PDF. Sometimes "packcage" options does not grab the pictures of the placed Illustrator files either. Best regards ... View more

Check the three boxes "Ask when..." and  import the object again (copy/paste) and then apply the proper answer when asked. If there is a mismatch (and there is one by sure), you'll be asked two options: Preserve numbers or preserve appearance. Preserve number means you don't mind if there's a change in appearance (perceived colours) because you mind more the inks composition. Preserve appearance means you let the software use the colour profiles to try to maintain the visual appearance (perceived colours) in spite that that will change then inks of the object brought to the document. Your choice. Both ways have their advantages and disadvantages depending on the precise job you are doing. That's is why it is a good idea to have that boxes always checked on. Fast answer: If it's a picture and it is in RGB and it has its own colour profile, I'd choose "preserve appearance". Best regards ... View more

They are receiving this message "a drawing error occurred" That points to some kind of error / trouble on their end, specifically on their software / system. See: "A drawing error occurred" Error and Acrobat Pro XI 'a drawing error occured'; error processing page. An internal error'! (Installation & updates) Best regards ... View more

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I've seen the video (thanks). The change to rich black shouldn't be happening. As has been said, there's something with your system. Start small by cleaning preferences and caches as has been recommended and, if not... I'd think on reinstalling. PD. Have you tried placing the PDF in INDesign and previewing its separations there? Just to get sure that it is not something related only with Acrobat. Best regards ... View more

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Just an idea: What happens if you place the PDF inside another InDesign document and you then preview the separations in InDesign) not in Acrobat)? ... View more

The default PDF/X-4 preset where the Color is set to No Color Conversion never converts a CMYK 0|0|0|100 black no matter what Color Settings are used. If you choose a different color profile from the output intent, you'll see a separation preview in which the black seems to be rich black but it is not (see below, Acrobat XI at my place right now). That seems to point to corrupt preferences or caches. Not the strangest of things, isn't it? ... View more

One last try, pretty please: 1. Open InDesign and with no document open: "Color Settings", set US Web Coated SWOP. as CMYK working space. As Colour management policies, set CMYK: Preserve numbers (Ignore linked profiles). Check the three "Ask when..." options. 2. Open the conflictive document. If asked anything, choose preserve embedded profiles. 3. Open the separations in the Output panel and check that the black text is still black (CMYK: 0/0/0/100) 4. Edit -> Assign Profiles, CMYK assign CMYK working color space (should be US Web Coated SWOP. as CMYK). 5. Edit -> Convert to profiles, from CMYK source profile (whatever it is) to Destination space... CMYK profile Working CMYK (US Web Coated SWOP). 6. Save. 7. Export as PDF, choose PDF/X-4 (the exact taste 2008 or 2010 depends on the version of your InDesign and is not very relevant to this issue, IMHO). 8. In the PDF export dialogue, go to the Output zone and choose Color conversions; Convert to destination (Preserve numbers). 9. Export. 10. Go to Acrobat Pro (you already have it, haven't you?). Open the PDF. 11. In tools, go to Print production, go to preflights profiles and choose one of the PDF/X compliance that verifies (not "convert", "verify") PDF/X-4 level. Push "Analyze" button and check that it is PDF/X-4 compliant (the profile now is irrelevant, we just want to check that the PDF is really a PDF/X-4). 12. In Tools, print production (still in Acrobat), go to Output preview. The simulation profile offered should be US Web Coated SWOP. Check that the black text is CMYK 0/0/0/100. If, after this walkthrough, your text still seems to be in rich blak (could happen. I managed to do that myself)... please choose as Simulation profile US Web Coated SWOP. Any other CMYK simulation profile will perform a color conversion (even for preview) and they are usually passed through a Lab space that converts black ink into rich black. Printing or simulating with the proper profile should show 100% black properly as pure black ink. Otherwise... the smart and dirty solution to overcome this is what Stephen_A_Marsh recommends: use Acrobat to solve the issue for the moment. But then I guess that although something seems wrong with the installation of your computer or the settings of your Adobe Suite, the culprit will be some tiny and maddening detail in your workflow. Being there, done that Best regards ... View more

Remember that dielines need bleed as well ... View more