[Kelly Johnson]

Yes, ask them to save back down to CS1. Also, run the software update for your version of CS1. There was an update that would allow you to open the files once they were saved as CS.

[Kelly Johnson]

Here’s what I would do. Select “Thanks” and underline it. Then, select responding, choose the eyedropper tool and then click on “Thanks” as far as your example.

Now, the eyedropper tool will keep everything about whatever you highlighted so you can just start ‘selecting’ each word that needs to be underlined.

Really cool and faster than having to select and the underline.

Try it out, the eyedropper is awesome for just such things.

[Kelly Johnson]

use a Spherize deformer

[Kelly Johnson]

Yeah, I got that. I meant that I’d like to be able to draw lines from point-to-points in a 3D grid and the polygon would be created as a result. More like drawing with a pencil and having the third dimension created.

Thanks though. I’ve been experimenting and such and am getting the hang of it.

[Kelly Johnson]

There are many other reasons as well. Better typographical control is the absolute #1 reason for getting my company to switch over.

The hassles of color can be worked out provided you take the time and receive whatever education one needs to get syncopated color output ‘around the office,’ but when dealing with higher quality printers and projects, you don’t ever trust an ink jet anyway…no matter the brand or the price tag. True, Quark in every version from the beginning has had terrible integration with profiles and color matching but 6.5 was a little better.

Having said that, InDesign is much better when dealing with color.

But, when it comes to long copy issues, such as those for publications, the efficiency of setting type and reducing tweaking to a minimum within InDesign can hardly be beat by another other layout program.

Nested style sheets, variable baselines allowed for different text frames and the Justification properties are just too important to not mention!

Graphically, you’ll save more time again (time = money for some so use that argument for the conversion as well!) since you can place psd and copy/paste from Illustrator.

The learning curve is surprisingly easier than you think.

[Kelly Johnson]

The problem sometimes actually manifests itself and is called stitching. Where a vector effect is touching a raster image (an image frame with a drop shadow for instance) is what the flattener handles. More rasterized means less vector output and less ability to modify the postscript content.

You might even see white hairlines appear around the picture frame indicating where the frame is.

Pitstop can remove those lines.

Anyway, since it’s reasonable to assume you nor the printer will need to alter the files post-production, set the flattener all the way over to rasterized in the preferences.

Similar to what was explained above, you can also Print as a postscript file and use Distiller to create pdf-x1a files which the printer should be able to read.

The 100% fail-safe and guaranteed method is to raster your entire pages, essentially sending the printer large images. Eps or Tiff files. Just open the pdf’s you already have in Photoshop and raster at 300 dpi. If everything is placed at 100%, everything will be crisp.

If you have time, and depending upon the design, you can build the shadows as images, but I’m also guessing again that you don’t have that kind of time so I’d try one of the other approaches.

Normally, I have the printer send me their postscript definitions for Distiller as the default ‘Press” settings aren’t always bullet proof anyway.

[Kelly Johnson]

If you’re linking to a .mov file, then a link is all you need. But, if you want to have part of your webpage an actual movie, then you need to click on the cell (I’m assuming you cut up your jpeg which made a table out of it so you could replace the area with the movie, right?)… and drag in the Quicktime icon from the tools palette. Then, just specify the size and link to the qt file in the Inspector palette and you’re done.

I did https://www.donfriesen.com
the high-bandwidth version all in flash, but if you click on the video link, a separate window pops up with video clips. Just view that source and you’ll see how it’s placed in the file.

If you’re just using a huge image map, then you can only just link to the Quicktime file externally unless you use javascript.

[Kelly Johnson]

excellant, thanks!

[Kelly Johnson]

Sounds like the drop shadow is being applied everywhere. Make sure you select the entire text frame, take off the drop shadow. Then, create a new frame the same size and fill it with white (unless the spread has a different color..or if you have photos or such then leave it blank) and apply the drop shadow to the new frame.

Sometimes, I’ve noticed that when a drop shadow is applied to a table, each cell retains a shadow even when taking it off so I’ve had to select the entire thing twice and remove the drop shadow.

There might something else going on, but from the sound of it, the drop shadow must be getting applied to the cells them selves and the amount of blur is probably affecting the colors.

[Kelly Johnson]

I’ve been using this now for a little more than three weeks and it’s been perfect for my work flow.

I’m involved in custom publishing, design and web production and haven’t had any problems with this.

Very cool and solid