Recent content by Glenn McDowall

∂E is super non technical. ∂ is for difference and E is for Colour. ;)

Upgraded to 2023.008. Crashing all the time. Went to Creative Cloud, uninstalled Acrobat, re-installed Acrobat (2023.008), re-installed Pitstop, re-installed Kodak Tools, re-set preferences for all and Quick Tools, still getting massive amount of crashes, usually when closing files or trying to...

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Thanks for the replies prepressdork and oxburger. I narrowed it down a bit more, so if I turn off the Output Preview it doesn't happen. So not to do with either Pitstop nor the Prinergy PlugIns. These are not complicated images, the SBOD is apperaring with the simplest of pdfs but turning off...

2017 intel iMac, Ventura, Acrobat Pro (I think 2023.006), Latest Pitstop and Prinergy10 PlugIns, usually have Output Preview panel and Pitstop Inspect and Action Lists panels open too. I get the SBOD when after dragging the Marquee Zoom, pauses for 20 to 60 seconds. Doesn't seem to crash just...

Using Pitstop I tried increasing the % yellow in 0.01 increments at 0.2% it behaves as expected and displays the same as it does in Art Pro. The same is true through Prinergy. I'm guessing that Adobe doesn't round up the really small %age and treats it as 0%. Since Prinergy has an Adobe Core it...

Installed and running, no issues as yet on Mojave

If the colors were DeviceN then the .1% Yellow would knock out the 100% Yellow despite it being set to overprint. Also a 0% (DeviceN) Magenta would knock out the 100% Magenta even if was set to overprint. 0% of a DeviceN color set to Overprint is a common way of knocking out the same color but...

IMHO PDFX compatibilty will give InDesign more freedom to change the colour space as it sees fit. With all the "Device" color spaces, the goal is to put the dot percentages to the device, if you change the device you change the appearance. You are talking about greyscale images; whether its...

I might be putting 2 and 2 together and getting 5 but, is Dov inferring that if you place an LZW TIFF into Indd and Export PDF you get ZIP or JPEG compression. Dov also said for storage of Masters; "For that purpose, personally, I typically use ZIP-compressed TIFF with ICC color-managed 16...

The best way I think is Prinergy Workstation or similar where you can Map any Separation colours to any other. You can Map spot inks in Pitstop but its not as intuative and I'm not sure about cmyk. You can Map spot inks InDesign. Mapping will retain the tint weight but when you have artwork in...

first and last pdf pages often have different trim box size to the rest when spreads is checked on Export.

Have a look at the dots with a microscope. Also find some fine text in a 100% colour. I've seen Ryobi press results where parts of the shape of the dot on the plate are missing or weak in the print, also it shows in a piece of fine text or solid stroke as gaps. I can't remember exactly what they...

Prinergy needs an extra module to retain the Layers, I think called Versioning. Prinergy 1st refine will honour the layer settings in the pdf but the refined pdf will have all the content on one layer. You can edit those Layer settings up front in Acrobat Pro, visibility and printing, but if...

I'm on Mojave and the latest Acrobat DC. I've got Pitstop and Prinergy Plugins. My set up is to alt click on the green traffic light to maximise the Window to fill the screen but leave the Contextual Menu across the top, I then have documents open full screen in Tabs at the top. Its useful for...