osgood_ wrote: ... Digital printing produces no dots. I'm curious why you would say that. Many digital printers use conventional halftoning, and many more use some sort of stochastic or FM screening algorithm that don't show a traditional screen spot patterns, but all of those use dots of ink to do it. As far as I know the only digital output that doesn't produce dots is a pen plotter or cutting plotter, and I don't think you'd find either of those in use on this sort of job. Peter ... View more

The correct resolution is a compromise based on printing method, size and  viewing distance. As you get further away resolution can go down (think  billboards -- no way anyone would be able to see individual dots even a few  inches across from the typical hundreds of feet they are viewed). The 300 ppi  rule of thumb is calcualted fro an "arm's length" viewing distance. How close is  close up on this poster? You may not be able to get as much resolution as you'd  like simply because the file will become so large you can't handle it. I used to work for a large format output service. 150 ppi was our typical  request for poster-size pieces, based on the assumption that they would be  viewed from a distance sufficient to see the whole thing at once, or 4 to 6  feet. I printed wall-size images on occastion at around 75 ppi, and could have  probably gotten away with far less. Talk to the printer, and look at some samples. ... View more

There is some color management happening, likely at the printer. ... View more

It should show if the data being sent from Acrobat to the driver is 100% black or not, which is what you're trying to find out. It doesn't matter, I think, WHICH driver you send to. If the color in the printed PDF matches the original, the problem is between the print dialog and your printer, not in what Acrobat is sending. ... View more

Yu should be able to choose the Adobe PDF virtual printer from the list if a full version of Acrobat is installed ... View more

Phyllis has done pretty well at explaining how master frames work, but I'll ad that if you want frames that fill margin/calumn guides you don't need to put them on the master page (and usually shouldn't) to autoflow. ID will add new pages with new frames that fit the guides automatically. In this respect I think it's more powerful than Quark. ... View more

If you're lucky, one of the fonts and non-western language gurus will show up, but in the meantime, it sounds to me like this may be set in an old, non-unicode, font so the character mappings are corresponding to the wrong glyphs in you new font. It will help the people who know about these things help you if you can tell them the name of the font that was used originally to set this headline. Peter ... View more

yard camel wrote: Current plan is to request author to provide me his native files, which will be Mac files.  Am I understanding the Import dialog and your collecitve comments to suggest that with that file resident on my PC (and unopened), I can use the Place dialog, with "Show Options" selected, to get the Mac file into ID? It will depend on the format in which they were saved. ID has no import filters for the lesser word processors, but can use RTF or plain text which almost any word processor can save. The one area that may be a problem when changing fonts, and I only understand this at the basic level, is that some fonts will have special glyphs for your special tonal marks, while others will use combining forms to construct them from multiple glyphs, so you should try a sample and see. Peter ... View more

I agree with Bob that the whole Mac/PC thing is a red herring. Place the Word (or other text format) file, and use a substitute font if required because the original is a Mac-only format. Is there something sacred about the font? Are there no PC compatible fonts with the correct glyphs? What was the format before your friend made PDFs? Why do you think you'd need to re-type anything? OpenType fonts are completely cross-platform compatible, and Windows-format TT fonts should work equally well in OS X, so you could ask your friend to use one of those on his end if you want to be sure there is no change in appearance. Peter ... View more

Sorry, no difference here on Windows XP with Acrobat 9. It would be nice to here from some other Mac users. I was going to ask the same question about Preview, but you've answered it... ... View more

This particular thread is for reporting spam or inappropriate posts (take a look at the title), and in the last 4 days there have been 35 new posts, none of which appear to me to meet that test, though a few are marginally related. ... View more

I probably shouldn't have gotten involved in this thread at all, and it's a shame that it has wandered away from reporting spam into a general complaint session. I wanted to give Claudio another perspective on why hosts who are monitoring spam reports might not have considered his last link to actually be spam. Apart from that I don't give a rat's rear end what the forums look like. I'm here because I want to help users who ask for assistance, and Adobe seems to think I'm good enough at that to appoint me as a Community Expert. If I have to learn to do it using a text-based monochrome interface from the days of MS DOS, then that's what I'll do. It's the message, not the medium, that counts here. I made my comments about the new forums in the threads where they would do some good, I know they were seen, and if action is taken, great. I have no intention of spouting off in every thread I see about what I like or don't. It's a waste of everyone's time. Peter ... View more

I couldn't care less whether or not the forums are merged, but I can understand why a corporation would want to unify its branding after an acquisition. ... View more

Bob, You at least partly missed my point about having to use what's here. Yes, you can make a conscious effort to look for another forum, and you might find one that has information as good, and that is easier or more convenient. But if you want to continue as part of the Adobe Community effort, this is what you have. Endless complaining isn't going to change that. During the testing period there were several people who found ways to script their browsers to show and hide various parts of the page, and adjust widths and such. Ramon Castañeda was one, if memory serves. Personally, I just ignore most of it until I find a use for it (it's easier, for example to click on your avatar to get to your profile than to find you doing a people search, should I want to send you private message, which is actually a nice new feature we didn't have in the WebX forums). And no, I don't work for Adobe, though I have some contacts who do. John Himself has said many times that the WebX forum, in its current form, was so completely customized and proprietary as to no longer be scalable, or suited to a merged forum, and that the people who had written the code were no longer with the company, essentially meaning it would require starting from scratch to accomplish the primary goal of merging the two forums. A business decision was made (and you can interpret that any way you like) to work with a vendor who could supply an off-the-shelf solution that would likely work for many years to come, and who would, one hopes, provide the talent and resources to maintain and improve the product, which is their primary focus, while Adobe's focus is on developing software for graphics professionals to do their work. Even if it were technically possible to go back to the old forums (and splitting up the platform combined forums like InDesign would require someone to manually examine each thread), the old contracts have expired, new ones have been signed, and it would mean abandoning the primary goal of merging the old MM forums into a single unified Adobe presence. That just isn't going to happen. Peter ... View more

I'm sure you're correct in your thinking that there are a more or larger fires to put out than anticipated. I think I saw you on the test forums, so you know John was spending nearly every waking moment reading and analyzing problems, and though less visible now, I'm confident he's still at it, and eqaully confident that nobody wants things to work more than he. I can't speak about all of what's wrong, or who is responsible for fixing it (but I suspect some of the problems need to be fixed by Jive, not John's team), but a decision was made to use Jive, based many factors, and we're going to have to live with it for the time being. This is still far and away the best place I know to get good help with Adobe products. ... View more

Claudio (and others), I completely understand how you feel. I believe we all share those feelings about the new format, but I think we've all been around long enough to know that things are what they are. Last time there was still the opportunity to go back to the old system. That is no longer true due to ended contracts and combined forums for some products, and the goal of unification of the old MM product forums with the old Adobe forums is laudable. Yes, there are glitches, but to say this is worse than last time is, I think, a bit of an exaggeration. And I have trouble believing in any conspiracy. The dicision was made to use something as "out of the box" as possible to keep it scalable and adaptable to changing needs. John and his team are acutely aware of what users are finding lacking, and I have no doubt they are looking at ways to fix these things as quickly as possible, wherever possible. The bottom line is that we have to use what's here, just as we use our applications with their particular bugs and shortcomings until a new release is issued, and make the best we can of a bad situation. I think by using a combination of email and web (I never was an NNTP user) I've come pretty close to the same speed and usability I had before, though the experience certainly is different, and I'm still tweaking how I interract. It would be a shame to lose any long-time volunteer and I urge everyone to continue to do what you can. Though often unthanked, your efforts are certainly valued. ... View more

I'm sorry you didn't get a better response in a timely fashion. I'm watching this thread, but I didn't check the post you referenced until this afternoon, on the presumption that one of the hosts was already dealing with it. Peter ... View more

Claudio, I looked at the post you mentioned, and my take is that although it was not meant for that particular forum, it was, indeed a response to a forum message, and the link to the MP3 player was provided as a courtesy by the person to whom he was responding in order to help him find an inexpensive way to get his audio to play, not a general promotion of an unrelated product. Over in the InDesign forum, where I hang out, we see this all the time (I frequently post links to products that will help another user), and as far as I know it's never been considered spam in that context. Peter ... View more

I've downloaded your samples, and I must say this is all very strange. Looked at on my monitor, all of the pages in each document seem to match each other in darkness (which I expected since both are flattened), but the exported sample "seems" slightly darker to me than the printed sample. Combining the two files into one, however, and looking at the same page side by side in the same window, there is virtually no difference in darkness, or perhaps the printed page is slightly darker. This could be due to different settings between the exported and printed versions --  the colors are definitely slightly different. ... View more

It occurs to me that it might help to move this over to the Acrobat forums. There are a lot of smart folks over there, too, and most of them know ID as well, at least as far as exporting. Be sure to link back to this thread so they can see what's been discussed already, and post a link here to the new thread so we can find it and subscribe. If they have a solution, I'd LOVE to learn about it (and so would quite a few other peple around here). Peter ... View more

I'm not sure if you're suggesting paying me, or asking for a recommendation, and I appreciate the thought in either case , but I'm afraid it wouldn't do much good. I'm pretty sure this is a platform-specific issue, and probably not solvable, at least not by me, and I don't know anyone who isn't likely to already be looking here who would be able to do any better. Can Chukee post a link to some of the trial PDFs that show the problem that were exported using PDF/X-1a preset and any settings but that were printed rather than exported? Just two pages each, on that shows and one that doesn't (but the same two pages in each file). That will confirm, perhaps the platform connection. Peter ... View more