Call the printer and ask. Often this is a request they make because they are used to dealing with files from Quark which was notoriously bad at exporting PDF. 9 times out of ten you can even send an exported PDF using the PDF/X-1a preset and they'll never even know it wasn't distilled. ... View more

Are you really gaining anything by printing to Postscript and distilling instead of printing direct to Adobe PDF where you have access to controls? Peter ... View more

try entering 2,1,88,87 instead and see if the page order, as Lark suggests, is the culprit. Peter ... View more

I'm not sure what you mean by the out-of-gamut command, but adjustments to Master page items need to be made on the master page or the the item must be overridden onto the live page before the adjustment will work. ... View more

Yest, that's what I was thinking, exactly. But it would have to have been made separately from the table Laura put on the pasteboard in the ID doc. ... View more

Hi Laura, I've been playing around a bit more, and I have to tell you this is about the strangest thing I've seen in quite some time. You can cut the "table" from ID and paste it into Illustrator and it comes in as paths and type. The numbers are all one big group, and the letters are another, and I can't find a way to ungroup either one, but I can edit the individual numbers or letters, or select them and move them around. The black boxes are one large compound path, and all of the gridlines are tiny individual strokes. There are also a couple of clipping masks. This looks A LOT like what I often see when opening a PDF in Illustrator that was created in another application, like InDesign, but that's probably because my settings in ID are to copy PDF to the clipboard. If I change those settings I can copy and paste inside ID, but not into Illustrator. Although the pattern is the same between the key and the blank puzzle, I don't really think they are, in fact, the same table. This is based on the size and position of the numbers, and the fact that the numbers are in the table are Myriad Pro, but the type in the key is all Bookman Oldstyle. I really think the key was created in Illustrator and then selected and pasted, but I have no way to confirm this, and you say you did it all, so you ought to know. I don't know that any of that is useful information. Peter ... View more

Pat, I just answered this in the other thread. Sounds to me like you need to change the transparency flattening color space. ... View more

Laura, As Bob said, it's inline. If you select it and change the options you can release it, but it still appears to be an image and I can't figure out any way to break it apart so far for editing. Are you sure you didn't do something like export the page to PDF, then select the puzzle and paste it into ID? I'll try to play some more, but no promises. ... View more

Thanks. For you lurkers, Bob allowed me into the inner sanctum to look at his system yesterday. He's a very cordial host, but that's all I'm going to reveal here. :) There's nothing like a little rain after dark around Washington to make a trip interesting. Thanks, again for the hospitality, and you'll be gald to know we've made it safely to North Carolina. Peter ... View more

Hi Bob and Laura, Just getting to my email now -- accident on the beltway last night slowed us down a bit. :) Laura should post the file on a server (zip it first), then post a link to it here. I should have network access again around 4 pm eastern time. Peter ... View more

Can you post the file? ... View more

Cathleen, Thomas Phinney has a good explanation of wait the problem is up the thread at post 46, and Dov Isaacs issued a clarification that you need to delete the Adobefntxx.lst files after running the hot fix (or presumably installing the old versions manually)before the fix will work. I think you said you ran the fix, and it didn't work. Did you delete the Adobefnt.lst files afterward? At this point, what version of the Arial Narrow files do you have? Can you post the version numbers and the dates? That would clear up a few nagging questions. Peter ... View more

I believe Office 2003 uses the newer fonts as well. ... View more

It's the duplex setting in your print driver. Whatever it is, change it to the other option. ... View more

The pen tool is well worth mastering. The only thing you really need to know is the direction you drag the control handle sets the direction of the curve, and the distance you drag sets the slope. Hold the Alt key to get the convert point tool and you can make a corner by dragging only one side of the handle. ... View more

Cathy, In InDesign anything can be a text frame if you click in it with the text tool, so you can use drawn shapes as well as rectangular text frames drawn with the text tool. One way to make a semi-circular frame would be to use the ellipse shape tool to draw a circle, then use the scissors tool to cut it at two points, and delete the half you don't want. ID will happily fill the path with color or text, or both, stopping along the line joining the two end-points. This won't work well, however, if you need a stroke around the frame because the path is open. Are you familiar with using the pen tool to draw and modify bezier curves? You can use the pen tool to delete on of the nodes on a circle, but you will be left with rounded corners rather than sharp ones, and a curved side that you can modify using the direct select tool to collapse the direction control handles next to the side you want to be straight. When using the pen tool it automatically becomes the delete point tool when you hover over an existing point, or the add point tool when you hover over a selected path anywhere else. Holding the Ctrl key with the pen tool active will temporarily change to the direct select tool. Peter ... View more

I see the same behavior in 5.0.4. Here's a way to work around it. Select the anchored object with the selection tool, then cut and paste to the pasteboard. Make your edits, then put it back in the text where you want it. This only seems to be an issue with Inline or Above Line objects. Converting them to custom positioning makes them releasable, too. Peter ... View more

Looking back through this thread, ligatures were identified as a problem several posts back, but I believe only in relation to the specific printing scenario, i.e. on the Ricoh. Peter ... View more

>Remember that Adobe CS3 doesn't support running on Windows XP SP3 - it works but Adobe said users have had huge amounts of issues with the compatibility and bugs. I guess Adobe are working on this. Where are you getting this information? I haven't seen any announcement regarding incompatibility, nor are we seeing "huge amounts" of problems that are attributed to SP3. There are some reported issues, frequently printing-related, that may be caused by SP3, and a confirmed issue regarding an inability to open Pagemaker files after installing SP3, but not even dozens of posts, let alone huge amounts, and many of them can't be confirmed as update related. I personally am not upgrading to SP3, partly because I don't want to make trouble for CS3 or earlier versions, but mostly because, as far as I can tell, it doesn't include anything I find useful other than the security updates which I've been downloading and installing right along. Peter ... View more

>Try running the hot fix. It works. I believe he said he did that, but it didn't work. ... View more

OK, now that I know what the problem was, I used jongware's version , and it also works splendidly. Thank you both very much. I owe you both a beer or something. :) Peter ... View more

>Did you notice I suddenly used another name for "allImages" somewhere? (Can't get any clearer than that!) Now that you mention it... And just for fun I tried Dave's version and it worked splendidly in CS3. ... View more

jongware is starting to get beyond me here. :) I can usually read the code well enough to understand what a script is doing, but it's been like 12 or more years since I actually tried to write any Java, let alone javascript, and I'm getting old and forgetful. Peter ... View more

I note also that the tow of you seem to disagree on the exact name of the fitting options. Does it matter that there are also some text frames on the page? Peter. ... View more

Actually, it is as simple as rectangles, and I don't think I want to spend time de-bugging on this. How about a hint? :) Is it "for (var i = 0; i < allImages.length; i++)"? should that not be "for (var i = 0; i < allImages.length -1; i++)"? or am I too far removed form my code writing days? Peter ... View more

Can you roll back to SP2? ... View more

Daniel, Did you get any error message? Are the applications just frozen, as if waiting for you (still show in task manager or in the task bar), or did they shut down? How many monitors do you have? Are you running XP SP2 or 3? What happens if you turn video hardware acceleration to zero in the display Properties > Settings Tab > Advanced Button > Troubleshooting tab? Peter ... View more