
Peter Spier
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Peter Spier
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‎Feb 19, 2011
03:09 AM
2 Upvotes
Stix Hart wrote: Inches always throw me... The units are irrelvant. Finding the least common denominator for the dimensions tells you the first one has an aspect ratio of 6:9, the second 11:14. or just divide the height by the width to see how different they are. You can do approximations in your head. To be more accurate you should actually judge the size of the print area INSIDE the margins since scaling a non-square shape is going to screw up margins that should be equal on top or bottom and sides. That actually is more equivalent to removing the same amount from the dimension in each direction. Going from 24 x 36 to 22 x 28 is removing 2 from the width, but 8 from the height, and that ain't even close.
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‎Feb 18, 2011
02:38 PM
1 Upvote
You do undertand that the two sizes have completely different shapes and it isn't a matter of just scaling if you want to maintain any sort of reasonable margins, right?
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‎Feb 16, 2011
11:39 AM
I'm not a Mac user, but I think most would recommend running a utility like Cocktail.
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‎Feb 16, 2011
11:29 AM
Adobe - Feature Request/Bug Report Form
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‎Feb 15, 2011
02:55 PM
Everything looks just peachy (or should I say gray?) here. When was the last time you did a general cache cleaning on your Mac?
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‎Feb 15, 2011
12:18 PM
Never seen this, but I haven't looked, either. Is this restricted to a particular font? One workaround might be to use find change to insert a non-joiner between the two characters.
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‎Feb 15, 2011
11:34 AM
Your links don't seem to be working.... Screen captures can be embedded using the camera icon: Does your background show in ID whe you go to Overprint Preview?
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‎Feb 14, 2011
06:06 AM
You should PLACE the PDF (and anything else that is more than a few simple paths that you need to be able to edit) and leve it linked rather than embedding. I'd avoid .eps like the plague.
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‎Feb 09, 2011
11:57 AM
Did you try the link I posted above in January?
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‎Feb 08, 2011
05:21 AM
But exporting to PDF won't upsample (except under very special circumstances).
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‎Feb 08, 2011
05:17 AM
I usually set the stroke to align to inside on border. That lets me accuratly size and position them. Is that what you have in mind?
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‎Feb 07, 2011
03:55 PM
1 Upvote
One image spread across multiple frames, or multiple frames all with the same same image as copies?
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‎Feb 05, 2011
04:12 AM
ksng77 wrote: yes, i have downloaded the Scott Zanelli's PDF Import script. I works in Indesign CS4 but doesn't work in CS5. It will work if you put it in a subfolder named "Version 6.0 Scripts" (without the quotes).
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‎Jan 31, 2011
02:32 PM
Tom, Next time please start a new thread and use a title that describes your problem. Scaling should be working just as it did before, based onthe chosen proxy point, so there's something wrong in your installation, probably corrupt prefs. Have a look at Replace Your Preferences
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‎Jan 31, 2011
01:50 PM
You can find creator infromation about a PDF by opening in Acrobat Pro and looking at the file properties. Click the Additional Metadata button on the Description tab, then look under Advanced. The information will be in the second category, PDF Properties. This will, of course only tell you about the PDF you're looking at, not any PDFs from which it might have been built. I don't know if there's a way to find out about those at all (maybe in the Acrobat preflight information). That bug has been squashed for quite some time, so you aren't likely to run into it except with fairly old files, and it would only be a problem with a PDF that was produced from placed PDFs in CS, I think. Could happen, but isn't going to be a common occurrence. As far as I know, the only remedy is to remake the PDF, or possibley to try re-embedding the fonts using Acrobat Pro on a system that has the fonts installed.
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‎Jan 31, 2011
08:06 AM
If the font is embedded, you don't need it in the package. That's the whole point of embedding fonts in the PDF -- they are in the file so they travel with it, and don't need to be residnet on the viewing machine. The missing and embedded conundrum could be different versions or a subsetting issue, I think. There was also a bug back around CS1 where nested PDFs inside an ID file did not properly embed all fonts if more than one of the PDF file in the ID doc used the same fonts and subsetting was permitted.
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‎Jan 31, 2011
06:20 AM
You need to open that page in your browser, then download the file you want...
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‎Jan 30, 2011
05:08 PM
I think there is still an availbility here: (Link-removed-by-forum-host)
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‎Jan 28, 2011
05:24 PM
If it's all right with Matthew, I think it would be helpful, too, if someone were to try "Delayed" for Live Screen Drawing. That's the behavior you're used to from CS4 where holding for a moment gives you the live preview, and it seems to alleviate a lot of screen drawing issues like jerkiness and unpredictable movement for many users, like me.
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‎Jan 28, 2011
08:10 AM
The x/y thing sounds a bit like a Live Screen Drawing problem. Is your preference for that set to imediate, or something else?
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‎Jan 25, 2011
03:16 PM
So the formatting may have been applied as local formatting overrides, or possibly a character style. If the font spec is correct in the style definition, remove overides and see if it gets fixed. If not, check the character styles panel.
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‎Jan 25, 2011
03:06 PM
In line with what Stix said, there's a good chance the problem is with the font specified for [Basic Paragraph].
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‎Jan 24, 2011
09:21 AM
Harbs. wrote: I assume you realize that Peter was joking about pushing electrons... Harbs Yeah. The real reason Harbs gets stuff late is that the pigeons have to make a stop to rest their little wings...
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‎Jan 24, 2011
09:10 AM
That's right. Those fonts will need to be residnet on the system where the job is output for printing or viewing accurately.
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‎Jan 24, 2011
08:45 AM
Sounds like "not." Open the PDF in Acrobat Pro, then open the document properties dialog and check the Fonts tab.
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‎Jan 24, 2011
08:11 AM
Michel Lê wrote: I'm in Birmingham AL Harbs is in Israel. That's a lot of cable to push thoes electrons down.
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‎Jan 24, 2011
08:10 AM
Yeah, ALWAYS install in chronological order, ESPECIALLY on a Mac, and if you remove an earlier version after installing a new one, be preapred to reinstall everything again. Since multiple versions of ID have no problems co-exisiting when installed in order, most of us here advocate to just leave the early versions in place when you upgrade. It's amazing how often you discover you need them again for one little thing.
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‎Jan 24, 2011
08:07 AM
Harbs. wrote: Ah. Peter beat me to it. The hazards of responding by email... I think it's your time zone...
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‎Jan 24, 2011
07:56 AM
You can uninstall CS5, then install CS4 and CS5 in order. If you later uninstall the CS4 again, you'll have to reinstall CS5 one more time.
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‎Jan 24, 2011
07:55 AM
6 Upvotes
Transparency works by blending colors or overprinting. In this case it sounds like blending. In order to do that, ID must use a single color space, and that space is controlled under Edit > Transparency Blend Space.... Most likely the .png you placed as a background is RGB and the blend space is set to Document CMYK. If you go to print, the images will eventually be converted to CMYK anyway, but you should set the blend sapce to match the color mode of the images.
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