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Re: Who has the best all-around package for web-to-print? Look into things like pageflex from bitstream. Be prepared to spend $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$, not only on the software but someone to run it all.

Re: Automation in InDesign CS3 Look into Indesign scripts instead of plugins. There are lots of scripts out there. Sorry I can't remember the name, haven't used it for a while, but there is one common script for automatically placing pdfs in Indesign. Already your process is sounding very...

Re: Custom Page Size and Printing from a PDF Perhaps I'm misunderstanding but can't you use Acrobat's cropping tools to get the pages to the correct size? The pitstop plugin for Acrobat allows you to fiddle with all the various bounding boxes to create new page sizes, and you can automate it...

Re: checksum profile??? checksum is a mathematical method for determining the validity of a file. For one example, it is used to check that a file sent over the internet is the same as the one that is received (ie no viruses added). So probably yes, there is a corruption or something going on.

Re: Why Prepress is the most valuable~Printing Scam And if you get caught posting on the internet on company time, your a$$ will be fired. Good catch!

Re: Need help with Applescript to save emails You might find some tips here: http://macscripter.net/

Re: Script for crop marks Just guessing but your perhaps your problem may be related to the same one discussed in: http://printplanet.com/discuss/thread.jspa?threadID=1723 the part about scripts may be dependent on certain locations being available, and the folder structure in Leopard changed.

Re: No luck distilling Quark 6.5 Postscript files Here is a link to some instructions for creating a pdf straight out of a standard quark 6.52 install. If the files are too large, open the pdf in Acrobat and do a "save as". This will clean up the pdf and make it smaller without adjusting the...

Re: who plans your jobs? We have a planning department. Saleperson gets a quote from a planner who decides on prepress time and material, paper, press, impo, bindery, etc. and cost. If quote wins, salesperson writes up the docket re: colours, line screen, page size, etc. Files are then...

Re: Printing Office transparency and brightness and contrast Do you have Office 2007? I wonder if Microsoft's new built-in pdf-making works any better.

Re: QUARK 7.3 Text becomes bold when overlapping picture box with transpare Re: QUARK 7.3 Text becomes bold when overlapping picture box with transpare Used to see that in older versions of InDesign, moving elements in front of the transparency, or even to another layer above the transparency...

Re: Working from home? >In order for PDF to become capable of handling all the complexities of modern color separated image rendering, it will have become PostScript ????? You might, um, want to read up on some of the stuff happening in prepress these days.

Re: No luck distilling Quark 6.5 Postscript files Do you by any chance have a link to some documentation that says that quark to distiller is better than exporting to pdf from quark 6.5? And explains the difference. We are mostly in quark 7 these days, but back in the 6.5 days export to pdf was...

Re: No luck distilling Quark 6.5 Postscript files >> We've had no luck and are creating PDFs straight out of Quark What's the problem with exporting pdfs from 6.5? I do that all the time before prinergy processing.

Re: Quark 7 Export to PDF - Instant PDF - Trim Box size not held in Prinerg Re: Quark 7 Export to PDF - Instant PDF - Trim Box size not held in Prinerg If its any help, I export pdfs direct from Quark 6 and 7 many times a day, using file->export, to be processed in prinergy. They always work...