[Jacki Schklar]

Here is where I’m coming from. I was the only female in my ActionScript class of about 10. I have been the only female at a motion graphics user group out of about 25 people once or twice. The only female at a meeting about animation. I’ve been the only female at production software demos out of about 25 audience members a few times. I was one of three female TV photojournalists in a town where I had seen at least 30 guys shooting. I have been on a technical support contract before where there were only three women and about 40 men. I currently work in a company where I’m the only woman. The Avid User group list is currently the registered users, but when it was a word of mouth list you opt in to, there were about 4 women and over 90 guys. And I see WAY more successful male editors than women in the big post houses.

I’m puzzled more than anything.

Some of you are basically saying that quality, hard work, and talent rises to the top. I think it is more complicated than that. Sorry, but men are not so much more talented and intelligent than women on the whole enough to bring about those numbers. I don’t think there is only one reason. And I think women’s choices and typical qualities in demeanor are as big a factor as men’s.

[Jacki Schklar]

First image that came to mind was the author reading some of their work either in an environmental setting, or with imagery while they read. But those images were before I read your subject. This might not be appropriate for that.

Probably have the author talk about the results the book will give you and what it will do for your life, vaguely teasing about how this diet/lifestyle/recipes work but not giving it all away, of course.

What did you end up doing?

[Jacki Schklar]

Eeechhh. Somebody is going through a divorce maybe?

[Jacki Schklar]

Really? I did not realize that half the shooters and editors and producers and directors at any given level were women. That’s really interesting.

Oh, they aren’t. So I guess you are incorrect.

There is no question weather there are more men than women in higher levels of media production jobs, guys. Go to a few of the bigger TV stations and big production or post companies. The question is, why?

I did not think the difference would have to be spelled out for you. Just because SOME women can achieve a decent level of success in a field (including me), it does not mean it’s a level playing field.

[Jacki Schklar]

OK Walter, more info about me..Production Coordinator for a Corporate Media production department in a company with all male employees but myself. It is a staff position. I actually kind of like working with all guys, it can be fun. I have had several positions where I was the only female. Have worked in several areas of media production for about 15 years and have varying skill levels in the different mediums. I have a lot of training but little working experience in what I really want to do.

I respect you immensely, but you seem to have your head in the sand, yet only for the right reasons. You think most others have your same mentality. I believe you that you pay equally, but you are not privy to the fact that not everyone thinks like you, even if they don’t realize what they are doing. If women are paid nearly as well as men in production salaries, I have been given some bad information. I believe this is one of the worst industries to have a discrepency in pay between the sexes. I was taught that in one area of communications, marketing, women actually have made less than 40% of what men did(this information was about 6 years ago in a textbook, but does illustrate a point). Now, part of this is when women have the same experience and skill as men but are not promoted as well. That may be bigger factor than discrepency in salaries for the same position.

What difference does it make that there are entire production departments that are male? I can point you to several advertising agencies right in Atlanta that are completely female. There are probably dozens if not hundreds of ad agencies and production companies in the U.S. that are completely female.
The difference is…I sometimes feel as if I’m vying to be the one token female in a group or the few jobs that females are seriously considered for, as opposed to having as many opportunities as the guys. And if there are hundreds of all female agencies, there are thousands of all male agancies, and that does make a difference.

And what point does it prove when you say they are completely male? It doesn’t matter if you’re male or female. Good ideas and good service win accounts.
If you get more chances off the bat you grow more and do more and you can have more success. In many situations, women have to be able to blow the guys out of the water just to get in the door. You would probably know “the point” if you worked your ass off in production school and did twice as much and were twice as good and still got passed up for positions by the guys who played hackey sack through most of the program.

If you’re not comfortable with male dominated departments or clients, don’t work for them. The best word in my day to day operations is “no” to client I simply don’t want to work for.
This is the attitude that scares me and is terribly discouraging. It’s sort of like saying, “If you don’t like everything about our government, move to another country”.

Statements made to me: “You are right, we don’t have any females featured in our film competition. We should start a whole new one for women”. No. Consider women for your competition. “You want to network? Go to Women In Film”. No. I don’t want to go to the female group, I want to go to whichever group has the most influential and skilled industry people.

I sound more whiney than I actually am…It is just that I feel it is truly a factor, and the better I know how to work around this, the more successful I will be.

[Jacki Schklar]

I’d start by talking to the “printing” company and see what the specs are for these projects, how the templates are submitted. I would ask to actually consult with the image tech at the printing place, not a sales person. they know what works and what does not.

[Jacki Schklar]

Get them to zip or stuff the fonts. Might be corrupted in emailing.

Supposedly, if you add any font to your system font folder it will work, but it kinda scares me to do that. I’d ask them to try resaving the fonts a few ways and then stuff abd send again. They could be exporting from some incompatible font management system or something.

[Jacki Schklar]

can you find remnants of Elements on your hard drive and delete them? Then reinstall CS2? In fact, I’d reinstall CS2 anyway. Maybe you can find the help menu if you poke around the installer.

[Jacki Schklar]

As I mentioned in another post, this turned out to be corruption of clipping paths. The original designer saved or exported linked images incorrectly. They resaved thir files and it works.

[Jacki Schklar]

I had something similar and came across this…

https://indesignsecrets.com/eliminating-the-white-box-effect.php

Turned out that mine was corruption of clipping paths on graphics. They were not saved or exported properly by original designer. Yours sounds more like what is in link above.