John Mensinger
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Google “Photoshop Displacement Map”
John M:
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Launch Bridge, then choose Window > Workspace > Output.
Select your images, then click on the Output panel’s PDF button to get started.
John M:
All of the vim with none of that annoying vigor. -
Rich,
When I mentioned the simplicity/complexity factor with regard to your layout, I was more alluding to things like bleeds, trim, etc., which may have prompted me to include additional tips or instructions. It was not relevant to type/font conversion. I am never in favor of the type conversion you seem to think you need until it’s the last resort. Actually, the more complex your layout is, the “safer” you’ll be just sending off the PDFx-1a.
You’re just driving screws. All that other stuff you’re putting yourself through is a “hammer,” whereas a simple one-step export to PDFx-1a is the right-size screwdriver.
John M:
All of the vim with none of that annoying vigor. -
Rich,
Actually, you don’t have to do any of that. It’s all geared for those rare occasions when there are problems embedding a font, or there is some other in-RIP hangup causing font substitution or mis-mapping, etc. Embed fonts. Send live type.
It would be easier to advise you if I could see your page, but all you really should have to do is export to PDF with appropriate settings and send the PDF file to your printer. Packaging is an alternative for cases in which you want the printer to have all the native input material. You don’t need to do both, and no, generating a PDF is not part of the packaging process.
If your design is as simple as it sounds, just export to PDF directly from InDesign using the PDFx-1a preset, (assuming your printer hasn’t provided a PDF preset). That will flatten transparency, keep your images at appropriate resolution, preserve vectors and live type, and most likely pose no problems at output. I send such PDF’s to printers all the time.
John M:
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Most times, the JPEG’s you’d download from a reputable source will serve you just fine. On principle, if the same image is available in TIF, that would be preferred, seeing is it presumably wasn’t saved using a lossy compression scheme, as would be the case with the JPG format, even when saved at maximum quality.
If your source offers size choices, you’ll want to weigh those options on a case-by-case basis…according to what you know about how you’ll use the image. Naturally, it’s always better to have too many pixels than too few, so you want to err on the larger-than-necessary side of it. On the other hand, it may be wasteful in terms of bytes and cost to purchase the largest size available, then only use it in a low-resolution or very small print application. Considering potential future applications may be a key factor. A general rule would be to buy the largest size your budget allows.
John M:
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You’re seeing a low-resolution proxy image. Go: View > Display Performance > High Quality Display.
InDesign’s default is Typical Display, which will slow your work down less than rendering/re-rendering your images at full resolution every time the screen is redrawn.
Also, if you find yourself having the same problem with printed output, visit one of InDesign’s most puzzling default settings; Print > Graphics > Images > Send Data > Optimized Subsampling, and change it to “All.”
John M:
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I could be mistaken, but I suspect you’d have to set any links in Acrobat after saving in Photoshop.
John M:
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The target must be an unlocked, non-background layer.
John M:
All of the vim with none of that annoying vigor. -
The only thing you really can do is watermark them, the way stock image sites do, but of course even that won’t stop every form of hijacking.
Even if you could secure the file by making it read-only, or password protected, etc., anyone who can display it on their screen can capture it and work all kinds of evil on it.
John M:
All of the vim with none of that annoying vigor.