stevej61370215
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stevej61370215
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‎Jan 22, 2025
10:34 AM
1 Upvote
It turns out my instincts were correct regarding finding and using a PPD from another source. I found that Brother had PPDs for older, and other, colour laser printers so I've spent a few hours playing around with those. Their CUPS printer drivers included extra options to tweak but they were quite basic and didn't really change much. However I eventually managed to find a 'BR-script' driver for one of their other printers which gave me the option of 'Composite CMYK'. So now that the CMYK > RGB > CMYK conversion is not there the result is I now have great, accurate CMYK colour printing. Success and all it cost was a few hours of testing, a quite a bit of toner! Thanks for your input, and hopefully this is of use to anyone else in this position.
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‎Jan 20, 2025
03:40 PM
Thanks for your thoughts James. I may persist in trying to find a generic PPD and see if that helps. Some colour variation was expected and as you noted, I thought I would get colour output that had a bit too much vibrance. The big surprise for me was how dark and dirty everything prints – even from pure CMY colours.
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‎Jan 20, 2025
02:42 PM
Hi I've read a few discussions on this and have come across some saying that it isn't possible because desktop colour laser printers convert my CMYK InDesign doc to RGB and then convert it back to CMYK for printing I think I have that right). I have a Brother colour laser printer (HL-L3240CDW) and note that when I want to print to it I only have an option of 'Composite RGB' in the output panel. Composite CMYK is greyed out. This is presumably the bit where it is converting my CMYK colours to RGB before printing them as CMYK. It only has CMYK toners. The double colour conversion produces results that are way out. A pure magenta prints with cyan, or black, dots through it making it really dark, a pure yellow clearly has magenta mixed in etc. I have been in contact with Brother and even though they were very helpful, they haven't been able to help at all. I did establish that there is no PPD/driver for this printer that I can download. I also asked them about a colour profile that I might be able to apply to improve the colour conversion but they didn't think there was one. They recently emailed me a PDF that had very pale blocks of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black that they asked me to print. I printed that and the colours appeared to reproduce cleanly. The black had a little bit more than pure black going on, but the other colours were clean. When I showed the output to them they said the printer was performing to specification and there was nothing else they could do. What I'd like to know is whether there is any way to get more accurate CMYK printing from my printer or is it just not possible? Would any other apps do it better – Illustrator, Acrobat, etc? Thanks
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‎Jan 16, 2025
11:08 AM
I'm on a Mac, but regardless I love this clever timesaving stuff. I don't get large table-filled reports to do these days as our clients tend to do their reports inhouse, otherwise I'd definitely be looking for a bigger/paid solution. For the small one-off I'm working on at the moment I've set up multiple copies of your script with different table widths that are common throughout – then I've assigned each version of the script a different keyboard short cut. So your script is definitely making the job more efficient. Thanks again.
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‎Jan 16, 2025
10:37 AM
That's perfect – thanks Robert. I really appreciate your help.
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‎Jan 15, 2025
06:21 PM
Hi I've used the following script a lot over the years. It's brilliant, but it changes every table in the document, and now I've come across a situation where I need a script that does the same thing, but just to the table that is selected. I thought I'd seen this discussed somewhere on the forums in the past but I can't find it. Is it a simple change to make it target just the selected table? I don't recall where I originally found this script, so apologies to the author. var myDoc = app.activeDocument; var myWidths = [60, 10, 10, 10]; for(var T=0; T < myDoc.textFrames.length; T++){ for(var i=0; i < myDoc.textFrames[T].tables.length; i++){ for(var j=0; j < myWidths.length; j++){ myDoc.textFrames[T].tables[i].columns[j].width = myWidths[j]; } } } alert("Table width updated successfully..."); Thanks in advance to anyone who may be able to assist.
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‎Sep 27, 2023
01:53 PM
3 Upvotes
Photoshop Beta v25.1.0 MacOS Ventura 13.6 A very minor one to report. In the 'Select and mask' dialogue, Transparency is spelt 'Transparencsy'. Screen grab attached.
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‎Sep 04, 2022
04:37 PM
1 Upvote
We had a similar situation recently and solved it with Kasyan's script – see this thread. https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/all-links-broken-when-files-moved-to-a-new-server/m-p/13125725#M487734
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‎Aug 09, 2022
05:14 PM
Hi Kasyan Thank you for modifying the script for me, however when I click your link it generates an error and can't open the page. Could you please check the link when you have a moment? I have been buried in work the last week, so have only just got back to check for replies (for some reason I didn't receive the usual automated email that there was a reply). Thank you
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‎Aug 04, 2022
05:26 PM
I wonder if it's possible to modify that script to only search for missing links? Some of the links aren't broken – it's just the ones that are on the new server that are missing. The script checks them all regardless. Don't get me wrong, that's not a bad thing and I really appreciate the script doing all the work for me, but it does feel like it is doing unnecessary work. So, if you're willing Kasyan, an option to just find the missing links would be a nice to have. Thanks you though for the script as it stands! Regards Steve
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‎Aug 04, 2022
04:12 PM
Thanks Uwe. It works well and is much appreciated! Regards Steve
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‎Aug 03, 2022
01:59 PM
Hi We recently got a new server installed. All our files have been migrated so that the entire folder structure is the same as it was on the old server, but the new server has a different name. As a consequence all our links in InDesign are broken. We can manually relink everything as we go, but wondered if there is a way to point InDesign to the top level of the folder structure and then find its way to the links through all the sub folders. Maybe a script? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks Steve
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‎Jun 23, 2020
04:12 PM
I'm in the same boat – I had a large campaign that used Benton Sans throughout. It's a big headache. But, Adobe did notify us in early May that this was going to happen. There was a change to the terms of service agreement that you had to agree to (for me it was on May 8th) and I also got a message that the font I was using would be removed in June. As far as I am aware there are around 60 font families owned by Font Bureau that will disappear in June (presumably gone already). So at least we've had a month to sort out a replacement font, but it's far from ideal!
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