[Mike Gondek]

The level of sensitivity of the pen and the physcial size fo the tablet are what drive the cost up. In most case yu do not notice the pressure sensitivity difference between for example the Intuos and other tabelets, until you are doing some light handed retouching and set your flow to 1%.

I really dont like the superhuge tablet, as they take so long to navigate on the entire screen,( though you could change that with the software, if you have the time). I find a tablet slightly larger than your mouspad is the best.

[Mike Gondek]

I have the perfect solution for you. Hopefully you are not afraid of the using the mighty appearance palette. With your type selected choose EFFECT >> DISTORT & TRANSFORM >> TRANSFORM. Click preview. The set a distance (Eg: 1pt, -1pt) and copies (eg: 10).

Zoom in and you will see the stairstepping on the angled extrusion created, that is easily fixed, by changing your step and repeat to .01 pt and copies to 1000.

Now if you want to the top copy to have a different colored fill do it like this.
1 Change your fill and stroke to none in your tools palette(so that no color is assigned at character level).
2 In your appreance palette flyout choose add new stroke(to assign at the type level).
3 In the appearance palette change your color (eg: fill red, stroke black)
4 Then drag transform and drop it under the strok so that only the troke is ste[ and repeted by transform.

You could skip #2, btu it is good practice as this is a main resaon people struggle with the appearance pallete and not noticing whether appearance attributes are set at the character, type, group, mask. layer etc level.

[Mike Gondek]

Are you saying that in your character palette >> Language, that Craotian is in parantheseis? If so then your install may be corrupt, as all my languages switch fine.

I then go to the paragraph palette flyout menu and choose hyphenation to change my hyphenation settings, and I get hyphenation working for other languages (Poish French and Spanish atleast as I have not worked with the other languages).

[Mike Gondek]

Where are the white spaces on your print, on the outer edges or on the spline between your booklet pages?

Did you use: Print >> Setup >> Page Position >> Centered? Have you tried printing to another printer? Sometimes that paper is not aligned and is taken into the printer off center, check you paper tray and alignment utility if you have one with your printer. I have printed many double sided comps with InDesign and they have aligned up near perfectly own to .01″.

[Mike Gondek]

InDesign has a table styles palette to manage your tables styles. Windows >> Type & Tab;es >> Table Styles.

I have to had the chance to work with Framemaker, so am not sure exactly how the automated change or revision bars function. You could probably though make a template and put a text box with a a table in there. If you use acrobat, you coudl then make a pdf from InDesign and use Acorbat’s extesive markup and approval features.

One thing I do not like about InDesign is that files get to be very unnecessarily large, the same problem amy exist with Framemaker. Though I believe it is worth the pain and computers are alot faster and server alot larger now, so most people dont even notice how out of control the situation is unless you are a server manager.

[Mike Gondek]

Your problem stems from having to ow resolution, but the vector path would give a crisp hard edge when printed, but the detail of the effect within the vector paths woudl be low quality.

All the effects on the bottom half of the effects are bitmapped so we generally do not use them in Illustrator. You would have better control/feddback by opening your Illustrator in Phothoshop in a resolution you can control and apply plastic wrap there. If you do not have Photohshop then choose Object >> Rasterize and choose a higher resolution (atleast 300).

[Mike Gondek]

Start by checking to see if your settings match the defaults:
exposure: 1/60
f-stop: 4.0
ISO: 100
EV: 0

Then try sliding the set white point preview on the next screen.

You can also try to reset your preferences in Photoshop (immediately after booting Phothsop hold down Shift Command Option)

[Mike Gondek]

From the layers palette flyout menu (black arrow top right of palette) choose flatten to merge all layers into one. You can also select indivudal layers and choose merge down Command E on Mac or Ctrl E on Pc

[Mike Gondek]

There are a multitude of reasons why this may have not worked for you, and don’t have enough from your post to trace the exact reason. Possibly you may have been printing to a nonpostscript printer or used a file format different than tif, which utilizes a proxy preview.

Best leave this work to the professionals, there is an abundance of people whom can do this for you correctly.

[Mike Gondek]

In the layers palette click on the icon with the dotted circle at the bottom of the layer palette. This adds a layer mask to your selected layer. Then paint with black to remove unwanted times or white to bring it back. Use a soft brush and alternate brush hardness as needed.