Recent content by Old Dog

We also turn everything to outlines but sometimes a correction might be necessary. If it is only one word or group of words why go through all the trapping again. We just paste the new text and replace. The thing is if it is a small piece of type it can get lost easily when we have no control...

We send what they ask for PC. I will discuss this with them since they seem to be converting the DCS to PDF anyway. We deal with several printers and they all have their differences in files accepted. Since I am not familiar with Prinergy or Brisque I am at a disadvantage in understanding...

We don't have much of a workflow per se. The printers we send work to have Prinergy workflows. We work with Illustrator CS3 files. We have tried several ways to save from CS3. Normally we save as EPS for import to AP 8.3 (we have up to 9.0 but our guy likes 8.3). After we trap the files we...

Lord help us. These Illustrator shadows/gaussian blurs are going to kill us all. We were just informed by a printer that they are seeing super fine lines all over the background spot color. We send them DSC2 files exported from ArtPro. They run it through Prinergy and convert it to a PDF. We...

I worked at World Color for 21 + years myself and when KKR bought them out I saw the handwriting and left. Probably the best move I ever made. Yes, there will be jobs lost due to overlapping territories or consolidation. I wish all my former brothers the best of luck, the ones left anyway. The...

We had training several years ago and several versions ago both ArtPro and Illustrator. Many things have changed since then so I'm sure an update in training may help. The thing is we may have so many questions they may kick us out. :D As far as the ruler, we just tried that and it still pastes...

Our ArtPro guy here has another question. When you paste something into an ArtPro document like type, why does it just paste it anywhere on the artboard? He says it might be in the far upper corner and not in the center of the screen like you would expect. We wish there was an ArtPro user...

We tried this on a file that was giving us problems and it seemed to import better. But it still shows as a mapped picture instead of black type. When we click on this black type and hide it the text looks like it is knocking out the background color. If we turn off by color this anomaly does...

I'm using Safari on a Mac. I can understand if you have no activity for a couple of hours but some of us let it run in the background waiting on a reply to a post. Not a big deal just was wondering.

Why does this forum seem to log you off so fast for inactivity. It seems when I log in and get distracted by a phone call or a question I come back and have to relog. Just a question.

Not sure how I would post this problem here. We receive these files from the designer and it seems to always involve areas that have had a gaussian blur added to a box or placed image. The text closest to the blur (but not all text, which is weird in itself) is affected with the bitmap look or...

New here but hope I will find many great answers. We have been using ArtPro for several years for trapping of packaging. Lately we have run into a new issue with importing files. All of our work is imported from Illustrator CS3 or CS2. The problem seems to be gaussian blurs created in...