Recent content by Jon Wood

At our shop, we do compensate for this pretty regularly but it's a bit of a gray area (and my OCD doesn't like gray areas). The amount of visible page that's "consumed" as a result of the pages curving into the spine varies significantly, depending on how the book is handled so there is no...

X2. Be aware that different vendors will come up with different configurations and what may work for one vendor, may not work for another. If possible, determine who will do the conversion and get them involved up front. There are a number of factors that will affect how the die will be built...

So, the problem appears to be fixed, although I don't fully understand how or why. After a couple different go-'rounds on the phone with Adobe's customer support and a number of screen sharing sessions, they eventually had me reboot in safe mode and run Disc Utility to repair disc permissions...

Thanks Rich. Unfortunately, I'm afraid that I misdirected and confused the conversation straight out of the gate (our shop uses a GRACol standard by the way). The issue is that it doesn't matter what color settings are specified in the applications; some of our workstations WILL do the same...

Thanks for all the responses. I apologize for not being as detailed as I should have been–I'm horribly inept at written communication (I'm only marginally functional when speaking). I didn't mean to spark a conversation about color management, or the best way to convert spot colors to process...

Sorry. It helps when I actually read what I write. This is what I should have said. In the Edit > Color Settings... pulldown menu: InDesign is set to "Emulate Adobe InDesign 2.0 CMS Off". Illustrator is set to "Emulate Adobe Illustrator 6.0". In case it isn't already obvious, I know very...

In the Edit > Color Settings... pulldown menu, both Illustrator and InDesign are set to "Emulate Adobe InDesign 2.0 CMS Off" as shown in the attached screen shot.

It feels like I'm missing something obvious but I can't seem to find the "easy button". Here's the deal... When converting spot colors to CMYK, InDesign and Illustrator are coming up with different CMYK recipes. This was first brought to my attention by an operator working in CC 2014 but...

When I first started using InDesign, the behavior seemed random but I eventually figured out that it's not. When you create a new InDesign document and export a PFD, the name of the PDF will default to the name of the InDesign document, as long as no changes are made to the name of the PDF...

We try to work files in the same version of software and on the same platform that they were built. Partly to avoid compatibility issues but mainly because it's standard practice for us to send our working files out with proofs so that our customers can make edits and send back files that have...

Some might think that spelling the word checking with a "Q" is odd. :) I kid. I'm a big fan of my neighbors to the north. My favorite donut shop down the street DOESN'T TAKE CREDIT OR DEBIT CARDS! Talk about primitive.

Thanks for the replies. This was an issue that one of our other departments was wrestling with and I was asked to help. I found out later that another operator "fixed" the problem. The information I got was a little sketchy so I'm not exactly sure what the solution was. I'll be looking into...

Thanks for the replies. This was an issue that one of our other departments was wrestling with and I was asked to help. I found out later that another operator "fixed" the problem. The information I got was a little sketchy so I'm not exactly sure what the solution was. I'll be looking into...

I've got a PDF in which the customer has used Acrobat's commenting features to add text and lines that need to show up on the final output. This is my first encounter with comments in Acrobat and I'm having some difficulty. With just about everything I've tried so far, the comments disappear...

I've got a PDF in which the customer has used Acrobat's commenting features to add text and lines that need to show up on the final output. This is my first encounter with comments in Acrobat and I'm having some difficulty. With just about everything I've tried so far, the comments disappear...