Recent content by Dov Isaacs

Such “designers” are a significant part of the problem, especially if they don't differentiate between real spot colors that have Pantone names versus CMYK or RGB composite colors with Pantone names. Amazing the problems you get when real spot colors get involved with overprint and transparency...

You would be correct if Pantone was a scrappy start-up. But the fact is that Pantone is a subsidiary of X-Rite which in turn is a subsidiary of Danaher, an international conglomerate (which also includes Esko FWIW). Often, in such situations, the emphasis is on quarterly profits as opposed to...

Interesting information. But I wonder whether this isn't simply substituting a headache for an upset stomach. Yet another so-called “standard” to worry about (Some standards are more standard than others!) and buy into. Just what we really need. And of course, yet another subscription “cloud...

Yes, there was a third-party InDesign plug-in many years back (more than 10 years ago) that did output imposition. That small company was bought out by Quark which immediately discontinued that plug-in in an interesting effort to somehow competitively hurt Adobe InDesign (which it didn't)...

You are probably best off creating and editing InDesign source documents in logical page order, exporting the resultant pages to PDF, and then using any number of products (either standalone or Acrobat plug-ins) to make signatures for printing. This avoids having to muck around with page...

See my posting on the thread at https://printplanet.com/threads/pantone-color-libraries-will-be-removed-from-future-adobe-updates.291824/page-3 for more updates on this issue! 😧 - Dov

I've just noticed that Adobe has updated the web page at https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/adobe-color.html which has been updated to the following “new” text: What exactly does this mean? Pantone matches not being supported in Adobe Color is somewhat irrelevant from the point of view...

Nothing is “free” – the cost of the drums and toner are included in the price of the service contract.

One thing to add is that automated preflight and especially fixups have tremendous dangers in terms of false positives and false negatives. Over the years, I've seen quite a few perfectly fine documents (source and PDF) messed up by blind reliance on this automation. Such software is simply one...

I wasn't contradicting you at all, but rather expanding on the topic such that this didn't just appear as a subjective opinion. :)

The biggest fallacy associated with preflighting is that automated preflighting (whether in an authoring/design application, in Acrobat for PDF print publishing workflows, or at the RIP) is adequate or sufficient. Although such preflighting is useful, there are definitely false positives and...

Sorry that you are into conspiracy theories and rants! :( There is absolutely nothing in Adobe's code that forces you to use fonts sourced from Adobe or anyone else. Nor has Adobe ever “bullied” any font creator to adopt “their” guidelines. The only requirement for successful use of any font in...

There is a preflight facility built directly into InDesign that costs you absolutely nothing extra to use.

Although I am no longer an Adobe employee, your conclusion that “apparently India is where Adobe is to make its base” is not borne out by the actual contents of the article you quote. You imply that the company is moving its headquarters to India (similar to what Quark did many years ago). The...

I think the problem is Canva itself! It is informal and design-heavy but totally inappropriate for anything that needs to be accurately printed. All content in a Canva document is RGB with absolutely no color management, i.e. DeviceRGB. There is no concept of gray or CMYK or any flavour. When...