I am a 'prepress technician'. I am the guy that receives/prefilghts/adjusts/fixes file sfor printing that are suppled by 'artists'. I keep wondering (and sometimes yelling out loud)... +'what are these people doing'?+ Are there no standards (being taught) for file naming conventions?
I had a job that, when copying to our server, kept getting a message that file(s) couldn't be copied because of certain types of characters or too many characters. I checked/fixed MANY of the filenames, until I got to one ... had to stop and take a deep breath ... then laugh ... then scratch my head ... I had to stop and laugh again when counting the NUMBER OF CHARACTERS in the file name when I got to ONE HUNDRED-THIRTY. Once I recovered, I kept counting ... to ONE HUNDRED-THIRTY-SIX.
That's *ONE HUNDRED-THIRTY-SIX* ... characters ... in *ONE* file name. I didn't think that was even possible.
Are 'art schools' NOT teaching technical sides of files? Whatewver happened to common sense?
Also files that are named 'FINAL'. WTF is up with that? FIles that are named 'FINAL' usually ALWAYS need to be revised. SO what then ...is the next file supposed to be named 'FINALFINAL'?
Are there no file naming standards being 'taught'?
Stopping a job to fix a batch of file names, then RE-LINKing to those files, slows the job down considerebly, adds more cost to the job, and opens the door WIDE OPEN to the possibility of something going wrong.
*I need a vacation.*
I had a job that, when copying to our server, kept getting a message that file(s) couldn't be copied because of certain types of characters or too many characters. I checked/fixed MANY of the filenames, until I got to one ... had to stop and take a deep breath ... then laugh ... then scratch my head ... I had to stop and laugh again when counting the NUMBER OF CHARACTERS in the file name when I got to ONE HUNDRED-THIRTY. Once I recovered, I kept counting ... to ONE HUNDRED-THIRTY-SIX.
That's *ONE HUNDRED-THIRTY-SIX* ... characters ... in *ONE* file name. I didn't think that was even possible.
Are 'art schools' NOT teaching technical sides of files? Whatewver happened to common sense?
Also files that are named 'FINAL'. WTF is up with that? FIles that are named 'FINAL' usually ALWAYS need to be revised. SO what then ...is the next file supposed to be named 'FINALFINAL'?
Are there no file naming standards being 'taught'?
Stopping a job to fix a batch of file names, then RE-LINKing to those files, slows the job down considerebly, adds more cost to the job, and opens the door WIDE OPEN to the possibility of something going wrong.
*I need a vacation.*