Recent content by Dov Isaacs

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LiveCycle Designer is no longer available from Adobe, even on Windows. - Dov

Let me reinforce the urgency of converting those old PageMaker files now. CS6 is no longer available from Adobe. CS6 will not install and/or run under the latest MacOS version and is somewhat dicey under Windows 10. And I don't know of any standalone PageMaker to InDesign (or to anything else)...

No, there is no built-in driver in Windows 7 that is going to properly create PostScript from your applications to create PDF via an ancient version of Distiller that might remain on your system. And no, using a physical printer driver and associated PPD to create PostScript will normally not...

It's fuzzy because you are printing a 300dpi raster image on a device that is at least 600dpi and image interpolation will yield either fuzziness or step-casing. And if the printer is further converting your .png to JPEG, for example, expect image artifacts as well. - Dov

A printer that will only accept 300dpi raster files for covers and no PDF? That makes no sense whatsoever and is certainly not acceptable workflow much less best practice. Of course 300dpi text is going to look fuzzy wuzzy! Best advise is to find a new printer with workflows matching the...

If I had a dime for every time I've heard “but it looks great on the screen” I'd be quite rich by now … :confused: - Dov

Since you brought up Adobe … I'll repeat what I've said numerous times in many threads on this and other forums. There is vey little that either Adobe or any other vendor can do with regards to this update / upgrade issue. If you buy a new computer, especially a Mac, you are pretty much forced...

Creating PDF from InDesign via creation of PostScript and distilling into PDF is anything but best practice given that the resultant PDF files (1) are not color managed and (2) have all transparency flattened which is fairly device-dependent and can not only leave flattening artifacts but also...

To repeat, there is no trapping feature in InDesign for exported PDF. If you are seeing something that “looks like” trapping, it is the result of manual overprinting applied in the design itself. - Dov

If you create PDF from InDesign using the standard method of PDF creation File=>Export => Adobe PDF (print) as opposed to creating PostScript and distilling that into PDF, there is no way of automatically creating traps in InDesign. Trapping from InDesign is a legacy PostScript workflow feature...

Let me clarify. When you save an Illustrator file as PDF with the Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities option, you are creating a single file with effectively two copies of your Illustrator artwork. The first is the PDF content that you see in Acrobat and that is actually placed in...

You actually are not really placing Illustrator into InDesign. You are placing the PDF aspect of a .AI file into InDesign. InDesign has no “smarts” for interpreting Illustrator's private data within a PDF file. The problem is that if you edit a PDF file in Acrobat that has that Illustrator...

That would definitely affect the size of PDF files saved from Illustrator (I would strongly discourage placing Illustrator files themselves into InDesign) although the following is true: (1) When PDF is placed into InDesign, any and all of the Illustrator source “Pieceinfo” data in such PDF is...

There is no particular preference in Acrobat or InDesign that will necessarily make any difference in terms of performance. You indicate that the InDesign documents have “a bajillion illustrator points in them.” I assume from that comment that the InDesign document has a tremendous number of...