[Mike Gondek]

For final reproduction quality you can either supply your print with yourIndesign file (collect your placed images and fonts also) or make a PDF-X.

[Mike Gondek]

Instead of using export to make a pdf, try to do a print and choose Acrobat pdf as your driver (you may need to have Acrobat installed).

[Mike Gondek]

Sorry but I cannot figure out what you are asking. InDesign has both A3 & A4 as default size templates, adn you can create any custom size up to the maximum size limit of 1296picas.

[Mike Gondek]

ADOBE
(System Drive)/Users/(Your Username)Library//Application Support/Adobe/Fonts

SYSTEM LEVEL
(System Drive)/Library Fonts

USER LEVEL
(System Drive)/Users/(Your Username)Library/Fonts

Also do a search on your hard drive for “.lst” and delete any files like”AdobeFnt10.lst”. They often get corrupt, and they get regenerated as needed by Adobe apps.

[Mike Gondek]

When you save as .ai file, the default is to for SAVE AS PDF COMPATIBLE to be on. If you are not going to place your .ai file in another Adobe program turn that OFF. Your file will save much quicker and smaller, especially if you link to images rather thatn embed.

You should easily be able to get smaller than 200mb for a graphic that is letter size or smaller. I would save your PDF with the images compressed to max quality. The human eye will nto notice any quality difference with that small amount of compression. Find out what DPI your images should be from your printer, and adjust aht when saving your PDF, you images might be of much higher quality thatn the best the output devie can do.

Newspaper alwasy used to be 65 lpi which meant 130 dpi was good enough, but todays newspapers print more color covers so am guessing they are around 100 lpi which menas you probably want about 200 dpi, but not more than 300 dpi.

[Mike Gondek]

Filter >> Render >> Clouds
Layers Palette >4th icons on bottom >> gradient Map >> make a gradiebnt htat has the colro sof fire (mostly orange yellow and red with a touch of white and brown} works great if you same colors from an exisiting image of fire hat you can get from google.

Then Use liquify to drag wisps upwards

[Mike Gondek]

I create them in Excel, then copy and paste them.

(EG: in eExcel)
put a 1 in the top cell
put a 2 in the cellunderneath
Then select both cells and drag the blue dot on the bottom right of you selections downwards until you reach 350.

A far as being abel to move each number individually, my best recomendation would be to then convert this to a vector shape in Photoshop, and then use the solid path selection tool (but be careful not to miss when selcting).

[Mike Gondek]

Problem fixed it was a bad color profile we ae using.

[Mike Gondek]

Update: It is slow on masks, not on colro layers. If I turn color management to off the problem is solved,but I need color management.

[Mike Gondek]

First increase the resolution of your image and set it to grayscale. Yoo will then have to use the pen tool to draw masks for the shapes of the coins. Make a selection of the mask (eg: the background) , creae a new layer, then sample a color and paint with your flwo set to 0%, then selct the colro at the other end and paint in the other half.

Also take your original image ad do a find edges, then pu that on the top layer and mask that layer filled with black so nothing is showing. Yu can then paint back in the hard lines you needs with a thin brush. hard edge, slow 1 to 10% lots of pounding on your wacom.

This should take atleast 3 hours, and so I would recomend asking for the coin so you can scan it, or you may get lucky and do a google search on the images tab and find a better quality image. Tey to find ut who produces the coin to help your google search, as lots of images come up for “pope coin”.