Recent content by J.Graham

We experienced two Water Splashing festivals in the Lincang prefecture of Yunnan. Nothing like the photos from Xishuangbanna, but the young folks got soaked nonetheless. (Being a middle-aged foreigner, I only received a few polite sprinkles.)

I was working in Audio-Visual production when I moved to Seattle in 1991. I didn't want to go back to freelancing, so I ended up unemployed for nine months. By that time I had learned to be less picky and started looking at any number of different fields. A prepress company had an ad in the...

On my machine it doesn't get past the "Loading" message. I've tried it with my regular widgets running and with all of the other widgets turned off. I'm running OSX 10.4.11 on a 1.8GHz PowerPC G5.

For a quick workaround, maybe you could set the text to 0% of PMS 130? Or maybe 0% of a PMS 130/485 blended color?

I'd echo the concern Prepress-mdwest raised. At my previous employer, I was assigned to focus on a particular client and found that it made my job a lot less interesting. I missed the variety of applications and jobs that I encountered before the change. It's one reason I would be hesitant to...

Greetings! I'm a former A/V production assistant who got a job at a prepress company because I knew how to use a Mac. That was in 1992. In my thirteen years there I became somewhat of an idiot savant, learning a lot about electronic prepress but never dealing with the folks who actually put the...

Re: Survey about use of Acrobat on the Mac We use Distiller for creating pdf files for jobs built in Quark XPress. I generally just save the Quark page as an eps then drag the file over to the Distiller icon on my dock. For jobs built with Adobe applications, we just export a pdf. For soft...

Re: Illustrator to PDF bolding issue From what I've read, it's a case where Acrobat converts simple box shapes (like sans serif i and l) to a stroked path. So when viewing the pdf, the different objects are rendered, um, differently. There's a thread about it on the Adobe forums...