Recent content by Drewstre

If you're on a Mac, or have access to one, you could actually do this rather easily using the Coherent PDF Command Line Toolkit (CPDF) and a little bit of basic Applescript... CPDF can glom the total number of pages from the PDF, then use the total number of pages ÷ 2 to split the files into two...

Hiya- I've used the Fiery extensively on many different machines in my ~24 years of experience. I have about a year of hands-on with the FreeFlow DFE on a Xerox Color Press 1000. I can say without hesitation that I do NOT like the FreeFlow. Moving from a Fiery to the FreeFlow feels like moving...

Hiya- Thanks for the reply. And thanks HEAPS for the tip about shift-clicking with the output preview window open. That was driving me bonkers. I will contact support about the crashes, and will email you about the spot colors. Thanks again for your help. Pitstop is a fantastic product, and it...

Now, granted, I've only been running it for about a week, but I've noticed three things that jump out at me: - Many more Acrobat crashes, apparently primarily after invoking Pitstop. Of course, I upgraded to Acrobat Cloud (or XI or whatever) and Pitstop 12 at about the same time. Not a fresh...

Drop shadows on spot colors and... heck with it, "emboss" them all! Especially that cool free font I found on the interwebs! I'm feeling spry, so lets do that spot color in Photoshop! ok now im off the rails, grinding teeth ILLUSTRATOR PATTERNS! i'll be ok.

YES! I know this! Oh wait, no I don't. For a moment, that was describing Quark perfectly. Sorry.

----- Um, how ya figure? He said "When we pull the plates from press, we see a small shiny mark on the plate as if it was scratched. We do not see this on plate prior to going to press." I can't see how that's a pre-press issue. Sounds mechanical to me.

This is a darn good idea. [smacks forehead]

Hmmmm... I assume you'd rather not preprint the covers before making the booklets because if the booklet maker eats one, it would be a pain to reprint the eaten cover? I'm afraid I don't know the answer. I've never seen a machine that could do that... It would probably be some kind of inkjet...

Hiya- I have no experience with a Nexus RIP. We run a Rampage RIP, and when we migrated from a Windows NT server to a Mac OS server, permissions were a pretty big deal, until we figured it out. The documentation is next to worthless; it takes some research, then lots of fiddling. Dunno if this...

Hi Cameron, Your requirements are a bit vague, can you give some more specifics? These projects... are they already printed, and you want to run them through again and put addresses on them? How many? Or do you need to address them as they are printed? Any more details you can provide will...

Hello- We have a 700 with a Creo RIP and a KM C8000 with a Fiery RIP (and a 242...). The most important advice I can give based on our C8000 is do NOT get the KM without the humidifier if you are concerned about curl. We don't have the humidifier, and even the maximum decurl is not enough for...

I am also curious as to the resolution of this issue. noriceforme, can you expound on your fix? Thanks.

Maybe make sure all the pages of your PDF are the exact same size (specifically the Media Box). Pitstop can do this.

I believe XMPie can do this as well. Our VDP needs are not as advanced, so we went with DesignMerge. Pretty sure DesignMerge cannot do what you need. Hope that helps.