Kelly Johnson
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excellant. Thanks!
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Portable Network Graphic. The only thing png files are good for is the web. But, they’re not excepted yet by any of the major browsers. However, Flash can read png files and use them as they have a lossless compression scheme. Somewhat like LZW (Lemple Zivh Welch I think is close to the spelling) compressoin for tiffs.
Anyway, the png format wouldn’t be good to use at this juncture anyway.
Legacy+ if you’re using Illustrator CS or CS2, the only way to save a backward compatible file for use in older versions of Illustrator (up to version 10) is to go under File then Export.
If you’re using Illustrator 10 or below, you won’t have the Legacy option once choosing Export so don’t bother.
Another usual fail-safe, is to open the Illustrator file in Photoshop and select CMYK and 300 dpi for Photoshop to raster the file. Then, you’re placing a rasterized image instead of a vector. This can especially help alleviate missing fonts as Photoshop will tell you before it rasters the file that fonts are missing. Save the Illustrator files as Illustrator.eps for back up. If any changes are required in the actual Illustration, you can always go back to the original file, make the change and then re-raster in Photoshop.
Give that a try.
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dmg? You mean dwx or dwf? DMG is not a file format for a graphic file. That’s a format, somewhat analogous to an .exe. It mounts a drive (soft) for installation.
One thing to try is to put all three Illustrator files into one document then, importing that file and just positioning the appropriate Illustration within the frame. So, you’re effectively importing one graphic three times.
It might be that one of the three has some element in its construction that is causing the problem.
You could also try and save the Illustrator files as .ai files or exporting them to Legacy .eps and version 9. Sometimes resaving trouble graphics in a different format or version can clean up behind the scenes postscript that could be causing the problem.
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Sort of. First, you need a printer with duplex capabilities. In your page set-up, you’ll see a Page flow which tells InDesign how it should print the pages. There are about four I think with little zig-zag lines showing which way the document should print.
However, it’s a trial and error depending upon your page setup (in the Document, not the ‘page setup’ dialog box)
What I’ve done with great success is simply set the document up in reader spreads..that is, page one is what would be the cover, page 2 inside cover and so on. Then, I select Print, click the ‘Printer” button (you’ll get the standard message about using the boxes up top, just click ok) choose Layout from the pop-up menu. Specify 2 pages per sheet and click ok.
Voila. if you do have 17×11 paper, you still specify 2 pages per sheet, but you click the “spreads” option up front in the dialog.
This will let your document print back-to-back pages and require only half the number of pages in paper.
But your printer has to have duplex capabilities. The “Layout” option shows up as a system thing so if you don’t know if you bought a laser with duplex, just try printing two pages (1-2) and it should suck the paper back in for the back side.
Otherwise, you’ll need a third-party plugin for the pagination, but I don’t think you can make a printer print twice on the same paper without refeeding it back in.
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The same page with the same illustration? Try placing the illustration into a frame of another document and printing.
As with Quark, sometimes a particular ‘part’ of a file can become corrupted; maybe there was a previous crash…does the illustration have any fonts that are not embedded? Are preferences in InDesign set to all the defaults?
I would first try printing the Illustration from Illustrator/Freehand/Corel whatever created it. No problems? Then put it into another InDesign file and test it. Send two black/white copies. Then send two again then two more again. Notice if it prints/doesn’t print throughout the print run. Six copies but three different times.
It might be a system thing if it doesn’t print on both copies. If, on one print trial it prints on one page, but not the second copy, then I would check for fonts set to outlines. If there aren’t any fonts in the Illustration, check the complexity of the Illustration itself. Perhaps it needs to be rasterized first.
What version of OS are you using?
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Hmm..I’ll have to look at a way to have auto-pagination for two pages but in only one text frame.
Off my head, have you tried not having an actual facing pages spread setup, but rather individual pages which have the text frame with the special character?
Seems like you might have to manuall enter the preceding page. But there might be a script you could execute after the fact based on the actual page number of the document.
As for ‘previous page number’ which is used with ‘next page number’ that function alone is worth a ton of gold in the publishing business. When you have an article that jumps from one page to another, it’s a life-saver when pages are added or deleted or moved around because the ‘continued on page..x” and “continued from page..x” automatically change.
The trick is that you need to make sure the text frame containing the special character (previous/next) is actually overlapping the text frame which has text that jumps. Same on the frame that receives the jump.
You can’t put that character inside the the same text frame as the copy that is jumping.
Also, check that you don’t have extra text frames already in place that might be screwing up the page jumps.
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I’m not sure about that one, however…make a screen capture of your swatches…import that as footage.
Since the eye-dropper in AE will sample anywhere on screen, you can always view the colors in the footage window.
Or, just leave a palette in PS in the background, positioned so you can see it and click for the color when you need it.
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Not to give you a ‘stock’ answer, but depending upon the complexity of the transparency, it’s probably better to ask the printer what they prefer.
Normally, I place eps files for final files to a printer. However, if you are sending print-ready pdf’s then the choice isn’t as important so long as you understand how to make the pdf correctly.
Any printer worth his salt can take a native file (AI) and manipulate it accordingly to match a color proof or pdf you send.
It’s getting much, much easier these days to supply either or to a printer but personally, I still do all trapping, flattening and such myself and send either hi-res pdf files, or the wonder step…I send a rasterized eps file from Photoshop which keeps any pre-press mouse jockey from monkeying with my files. The caveat? I’m more responsible, but I’m at a point where I know how to get what I need/want on an offset litho press.
When in doubt as to how an area with transparency is going to print, ask the printer you’re actually using for their opion/advice. Despite my saying it’s much easier these days, I myself…here in LA no less, have found some larger printers who don’t really know as much as they used to or should when it comes to digital file preparation. Some, not all, have become lazy and think since we have the tools to do half of what they used to do, we should do it instead of them. So, interesting conversations can arise.
But, if you’re worried about a drop shadow of a process-mixed shape overlapping a PMS color and you’re wondering about the ‘stitching’ of that area, get a proof from the printer and print one out yourself to make sure the general ‘effect’ is what you’re seeing on screen.
Illustrator can create more complex transparency issues on its own. Importing such a file into Indesign and further manipulating around that area can be tricky.
You can adjust the flattening in InDesign to be more rasterized rather then vector-based and that will usually take care of moderate transparency issues. Though, you’re then essentially turning a document into a big graphic rather than taking advantage of what the PDF has.
Again, when in doubt ask the printer you’re using or 2) save everything as a print ready pdf and rasterize that in Photoshop thus creating a large graphic. Any problems a printer might have in their RIP software will usually
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Could be just a different format like postscript versus true type. We have both versions of Impact at the studio where I work and I’m always having to replace the TT version with the postscript and the other people vice-versa.
Since they both work, it’s very quick and easy to just replace one with the other so though one might think..”why don’t you just trash one or the other?” it’s good to have both in case anything with real specific kerning comes in.
Glad it’s working out for you. We all use Extensis Suitcase for OSX and it works out great.
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Well, if you’re getting the message that oulines are missing, you might not have the complete font. The only font types that are usually successful in Font Book are the dfont packages.
To see if they actually are complete, put copies of the fonts in the Fonts folder inside the Library folder in your User folder.
Restart InDesign. Also, it’s funny but sometimes a program like Illustrator might recognize a font a certain way that is different from say Photoshop or InDesign or Quark. So, you might try setting that font in a different app to see if it works.
Bypassing FontBook by placing fonts in the various font folders will ensure the font loads if the font itself isn’t corrupted.