I forgot to include the cardinal rule: Talk to the printer. He should be able to tell you if your images will print acceptably on his equipment using your selected stock. ... View more

First, are we talking about the resoution of the image at its saved dimensions or the "effective" resolution at the size it is being printed? The one that matters is effective resolution. Second, there are a lot of factors that affect what the optimal resolution is going to be, not least of which is halftone screening method and the screen density. Choice of a screen is often dictated by the quality of the paper stock -- coated papers are less absorbant and will allow a finer screen and finer details. Theres a vast difference between what you need for the Sunday comics and a coffee-table fine art catalog, and there is no single simple answer to a question as open-ended as yours. Is there going to be a difference? Probably. How significant a difference, and whehter it makes things better or worse depends on all the factors involved in the job. The rule of thumb is you need an effective resolution equal to twice the linescreen used to print the image. Like all rules of thumb this is more a guideline that will insure you always get good results rather than an absolute. I know people who routinely send images with an effective resolution of 1.4 times the linescreen. I believe, also that stochastic screening methods will work well with lower resolutions, but stochastic screens are uncommon in offset work still, I think. If the resolution is low, there is usually no point in simply upsampling and sticking the image back in the document, if that's what you are asking. It isn't likely to improve how it looks. ... View more

Talking to the printer is ALWAYS the best thing, and you're right Dan didn't say how this was going to be output, but there was nothing in the post that lead me to believe he was doing it in house or needed to impose to save money at the local copy shop, and I've been trying to make clear from the start that either he needs to FULLY impose the file, whether integral cover or separate, to the requirements of the equipment, or he shouldn't be imposing anything at all. Once you get beyond the kind of customer operated copiers you see in some walk-up shops, pretty much any piece of printing equipment that would do a booklet has some sort of built-in imposition for accepting single page files, or you need a pre-press tech and dedicated imposition software to set up a complex signature. Why put the cover in the same file for a stitched book? If it's a self-cover running on a press, you want it included in the signature, if it's running digitally, you want it in the same file so the finisher built into the machine will fold and staple inline and you don't need to handle the job twice. It's a case of efficiency of handling and added costs. I don't think there's a separate set of terms for large or small scale operations. Imposing means arranging pages for print, and just moving the back cover onto the same spread  as the front, without rearranging everything else at the same time, just doesn't fit that definition. And, as I said, if this is going out for professional output, you don't want to mix printers' spreads and readers' spreads in the same file. That's just asking for trouble. Peter ... View more

For a 32 page doc (including cover), the cover would probably not be a separate file unless being printed on different stock or using different plates (full color with black only body, for example), but it would depend on the size of the equipment. You say you are a fan of imposing, but I don't think you've really used the term correctly in this context. The file is shuffled to bring the last and first pages together, but it is not imposed for printing in either your example or mine, and it would be a major mistake to do the imposition for the printer unless explicitly given instructions to do so, along with the pattern to fit the equipment. The designer is generally not in a position to know how the printer will choose to lay out a job on the press sheet (half the time when I think something simple will run work-and-turn to save plates, my printer tells me it needs to be sheetwise in order to control some color properly, often because of of the direction it needs to be oriented to fit the sheet and a conflict between an area of heavy ink that would be in the same path as something lighter). Peter ... View more

When you attach, things get Queued, sometimes forever. Use the little camera Icon to embed instead. New Document: Next go to pages panel and select page one (currently by itself) and change start number to 32: Back to pages panel and select next page (now page 33) and go back to section and numbering options. Start a new section and set start number to 1: Your pages panel should now look like this: and all your pages will be displayed in readers' spreads. Before you go to print you should drag page 32 to the end of the document in the pages panel to be sure the file will impose correctly. You cannot go to print as readers' spreads, but you can deliver the file to the printer for imposing. If you need the pages to start at 1 inside for auto numbering, you should use something other than Arabic Numbers for the cover, and start another section,  probably at the current page 3 and renumber that 1. Current page 2 is the inside front cover, current page 31 (referring to the image above) is the inside back cover. Peter ... View more

Depending on how the book will be printed and bound, you may not have the right number of pages here. Stitched books need to be in multiples of 4 pages. Perfect-bound or loose bindings like spiral or GBC can have any number of pages, but if you want a spread for the cover it sounds like you plan to fold and stitch. If that's the case, you need to add blank pages to bring the count to 32, or reduce the count to 28. Peter ... View more

InDesign builds documents in the same view your readers will see. When the booklet is closed, they see only the front cover or only the back cover. If this is a "self-cover" booklet you can either put the back cover on the last page, or if you really need to see the entire cover as a spread you can force ID to start on a two-page spread in a number of different ways. I fthe back cover will be pg 32, for example, set the strat page number to 32, and then start a new section on the page for the front cover and restat page numbering at 1. You design your document in readers' spreads, but it gets printed in printers' spreads. It isn't just front and pack cover that get put together. It's printed as first and last, second and next to last, third and third from last, and so forth get ganged. This is called imposition, and it is the printer's job to do it, not yours. Trying to lay out a book in impposed spreads is difficult, at best, and a waste of your time. Peter ... View more

No question. I used to do HTML in Notepad back in the days when I did HTML. I guess I'm not really sure what the layered PSD is doing that sending the text, images, and a PDF of the ID layout for reference wouldn't achieve. Just exploring the options is all... ... View more

You can do it in either version. In CS3 it's under Cross-Media Export in the File Menu. In CS4 it's more obvious with a direct listing in the menu. This is outside my normal workflow, but I can tell you that using this technique you get a folder full of images, the text, and a blank CSS style sheet, ready to manipulate in an authoring program -- you don't get a finished page. The key to success with this method is the religious use of styles for everything, including object styles which as I understand things generate div tags. I'm sure there's a lot more online and in the help. Peter ... View more

What are you doing with the layered Photoshop files? I think the more typical path from InDesign to Web would be to export for Dreamweaver in ID. ... View more

Please start a new thread for unrelated topics (I think you may have already done that) your crash in CS4 is not the same as CS3. ... View more

Too late now, Ken. Sorry. ... View more

I suspect a font problem of some sort. All of the affected type seems to be the MHCDinLight, and when you look at the file properties that's the only one that say it has custom encoding, even in the original. I'm afraid I don't know exactly what that means, or why it would behave differently in different versions. Peter ... View more

Can you also post one of the PDFs that has the missing text? It shold use this same ad, or post the PDF that you use to make the bad file. Peter ... View more