
Peter Spier
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Peter Spier
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‎Jan 24, 2011
04:04 AM
The technoluxe links are gone, but this one may still work: (Link-removed-by-forum-host)
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‎Jan 20, 2011
12:37 PM
That's something different, too. Show Transformation Values controls the callout that shows the cahnging values as you transform a frame, not the bounding box around multiple selected items.
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‎Jan 18, 2011
01:14 PM
Packaging problems have nothing to do with background export of PDF. Please start a new thread and provide full details of your problem, including OS and patch level of CS5.
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‎Jan 17, 2011
01:45 PM
Backward comaptibility issues in page layout applications are neither new nor unique to InDesign, and have absolutely nothing to do with greed. Nor should you be sending native files to your printer. Accepted standard delivery is PDF, and has been since before CS3 was released, so the version of InDesign your printer has chosen to stop on is of no consequence. While choice of printers is largely a matter of personal preference, those that fail to keep up with the current technology in page layout usually have a lot of other problems that make them poor candidates for sending work produced in a modern workflow. All of that aside, if you have CS3 and are happy working with the printer and feel you must send native files, you should continue to work in CS3. Adobe has a 30-day refund policy.
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‎Jan 12, 2011
04:19 PM
hang in there. I wish we could do more than offer reassurance that it will be OK...
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‎Jan 12, 2011
01:23 PM
Emma, Do you work for a company, or is it just you and your personal computer? if the former, you may indeed have a font manager, if the latter it's less likely (and you would probably know). Did you get your file recovered again?
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‎Jan 12, 2011
12:41 PM
Thank you, Matthew. For those who are following this and may not be aware of who he is, Matthew is a member of the InDesign team. It was through his similar efforts that problems with PDF export hangs were identified and resolved. I hope at least one of you, Lonzo in particular since he seems to be having repeatable problems, is able to work with Matthew.
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‎Jan 12, 2011
07:01 AM
One of the issues for the prepress tech, even with modern managers, was that there was no real way to control exactly which Helvetica or Frutiger was going to open when 25 different clients used the same fonts, but potentially different versions, unless you hid all the ones you didn't want from the manager, and then there was no point in using it since you'd have to go through hiding and making available a differnt set of fonts for each job, so you might as well do it manually. For an idividual who works with just their own set, that's maybe not an issue, but I can't say I miss having a manager.
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‎Jan 12, 2011
05:51 AM
Lonzo2204 wrote: So, you don't use font management software. How do you manage that? How many fonts do you use? Well, it's just me so I don't need to coordinate a lot of fonts. I currently have 1087 fonts listed in the fonts folder (which obviously includes multiple weights and styles for many families, not that many distinct faces). When I need another font, I install it manually, delete it manually when not needed. I should probably dump half of wht's curently installed, but a lot of them are for legacy files that I open once a year or so. My favorite prepress tech got me into that -- he said he gave up on font managers years ago as they were totally unreliable, especially auto-activation. His method was to drag a folder with the client's job fonts into the system fonts folder while the job was active, then out again when done.
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‎Jan 12, 2011
04:04 AM
Hi Emma, Sorry to hear this has reappeared on your system as well as on Lonzo's. I find that very disturbing. For the moment, I can't offer any more suggestions for recovery than the previous method you used, which will hopefully get your project completed. As far as a refund, you'd have to take that up with customer service, and I suspect you won't have a lot of luck since more than 30 days has passed. The bigger issue at this point is what might be causing this. What is your operating system? Do you know if you use a font manager?
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‎Jan 11, 2011
08:38 PM
There were some issues with aplication hang (not an actual crash) exporting PDF as a background task in the initial release. Those that the engineers were able to identify have been addressed in the 7.0.3 update. Once in a while I still see the occasional report of a hang, though I have not had any myself, and those files that would consisently hang do not do so any longer when I try to reproduce the problem. Are you experincing something similar, and have you installed the 7.0.3 patch? I don't use a font manager myself, and can only go on anecdotal evidence, but if it's possible to disable the Extensis plugins in ID and still have acess to your fonts, I would do so, at least temporarily, to see if it has an effect on behavior. If you see a change, you most certainly should contact Extensis. You might want to see if there are updates in any case.
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‎Jan 11, 2011
06:23 PM
Lonzo, Your problem is so far from being the experience of most users it's like winning the lottery. You need to be looking at what else is running on your system that might be causing a conflct. Do you use a font manager? Many versions of Suitcase have been implicated in bad behavior, as have some third-party ID plugins. I'd check for bad fonts too, and maybe even do a virus check (yeah, they're really rare on Mac, but not impossible, and as a printer you expose yourself to a lot of client files, I suspect, and you don't really know what sort of problems they bring with them).
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‎Jan 11, 2011
05:11 PM
Are you saying you have a problem with InDesing, or with Photoshop Starter Edition?
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‎Jan 10, 2011
03:30 AM
They might be in a style someplace which is why they show as used, but that shouldn't prevent deletion, so a more likely explanation is they are left over from an imported object that has since been deleted or modified, and ID just hasn't gotten the message. Export to .inx or .idml may fix that. See Remove minor corruption by exporting If that doesn't do it, are you sure you really care? If they are not in use they shoudn't generate a plate, so they are pretty benign, but I can understand the urge to clean them out. Can you open the swatch definitions for them and redefine them as process (rather than using the ink manager)? Does that allow for deletion? If not, the old standby for removal of problems swatches has been to make a new doc and add swatches with exactly the same names, but define them as process in the new doc. Add the new doc and the one with the problem to a ne w Book file, and set the new doc as the source for synchronizination, then synch just the swatches. Delete the book and the new file and you should be able to remove the swatches from the original.
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‎Jan 07, 2011
08:36 AM
I think your request has a lot of merit. A lot of "me too" here, though, carries far less weight than an official request at Adobe - Feature Request/Bug Report Form
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‎Jan 07, 2011
05:00 AM
Work in points as your unit. That's equivalent to 72 ppi, and is what CS5 does when you say your layout is for the web.
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‎Jan 04, 2011
02:04 PM
But you can get gold embossed borders! Try doing that on your inkjet.
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‎Jan 04, 2011
01:30 PM
You can also try setting Live Screen Drawing to Delayed in the prefs, and turn of page thumbnails in the Pages panel. Turning off Live Preflight may also help.
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‎Jan 04, 2011
01:27 PM
Or go to Staples and buy some blank certificate paper....
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‎Jan 04, 2011
01:23 PM
I suspect the Tagged PDF also adds some size, but is required if you expect devices for the visually handicapped to work.
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‎Jan 04, 2011
11:37 AM
You don't really want my opinion. I design for print and don't give a darn about optimization for the web. I probably wouldn't reduce the resolution below 100 ppi, and use nothing less than medium quality compression (knowing full well that the people who will print it out won't see anything resembling the work coming off the press), or I'll forbid printing altogether. I usually do optimization of this sort through the PDF Optimizer in Acrobat, and what I get is what I get.
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‎Jan 04, 2011
09:00 AM
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It's hard to say if 1.5 mb is large for the file you have. Sounds pretty small to me, but I deal in print and it's not unusual to produce files over 100 mb if they have a lot of images. If you 've read the other threads, you've seen what there is to see. Distilled PDF is smaller because it lacks a lot of the features that are preserved in exported PDFs like support for tranparency, color management, and interactivity. You needn't export to .eps to distill a PDF. In Windows you can print direct to the PDF virtual printer. On Mac try Save PDF from the print dialog.
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‎Jan 03, 2011
10:47 AM
I'm not sure it's all that obvious. How many users save PDF from Photoshop with the intention of distribution as actual PDF to be viewed in Acrobat? I bet more than the number that need the convenience of using edit original without a hassle.
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‎Jan 03, 2011
10:37 AM
Shouldn't be. What do you mean "super slow"? What's the OS and your system configuration?
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‎Jan 03, 2011
09:49 AM
Yeah, photoshop import in ID is a little deceiving. Import .psd and everything is rasterized by ID, save as PDF in Photoshop and import that instead and everything is preserved. Don't forget to preserve Photoshop editing capabilities, and if you change the file extnesion to .pdp instead of .pdf, ID will know to edit in Photoshop instead of Acrobat when you use "edit original."
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‎Jan 03, 2011
09:08 AM
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How do they look in a PDF made from your file? What's in the photoshop files? Text is going to look like crap if rasterized at 300 ppi. Vectors, too. The way to avoid that is to leave any text or vector content live in Photoshop and save as Photoshop PDF, then place that instead of .psd (which will rasterize the text and vectors, even if still live in the .psd). Quality is going to suffer, too, if you scale up in ID. Bottom line though, is that you are still looking at a preview image in ID, optimized for the zoom level, so it is likely not to look quite as good as the original.
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‎Dec 26, 2010
07:16 AM
You really should be setting up the document at the trim size of the finished DVD cover. Add a bleed allowance in the "more options" area of the document setup dialog. I just checked a DVD cover here, and I doubt it's possible to print on 8.5 x 11 paper and get the crops to show, and maybe not even the full bleed area, on most printers.
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‎Dec 26, 2010
07:11 AM
If things have shrunk in the print, it usually means you enabled "scale to fit printable area" in the print dialog. It sounds as if perhaps the doc size is as large as the printable area on the sheet and the automatic crop marks that ID will add under marks and bleed are falling into the non-imageable area of the printer.
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‎Dec 25, 2010
05:24 AM
And to you..
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‎Dec 24, 2010
08:56 AM
If it continues to happen, I suggest you trytrashing your prefs. See Replace Your Preferences You should also be able to select the frame and choose fitting aoptions to get the image back inside (ore use one of the buttons on the control panel). But this still sounds like a case of two frames. These aren't converted Pagemaker files with keylines around images, are they? Pagemaker required a separate stroked rectangle that was grouped with the image by the plugin. ID can stroke the image frame directly, but I suspect a converted file might still have the extra rectangle, particulary if the two parts had been ungrouped (that used to drive me crazy when I did ads for real estate brokers and auto dealers with lots of photos when I worked for a newspaper that was PM-based).
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