Recent content by Pam Hanson

You should be able to contact a sales rep from Screen to obtain a no obligation quote as the prices vary depending on how many levels of upgrade you need and training/installation.

I guess since it's my birthday today, my thirst is centering around thoughts of Corona and Lime. However, I would need to understand the practical application before taking on the trapping adventure you suggest. And again, since it's mid afternoon, and it's not urgent and I'm one year...

We usually set overprints in the native files, i.e. Illustrator, or InDesign and have Trueflow trap other colors according to the specs we've set. We have never run into a trapping issue that has resulted in complaints from our press people unless the file wasn't trapped in the first place. You...

Sounds like something you would have to question Screen about. The only way I see that working is to trap the file first in Pitstop and then not trap the file in Trueflow. But that seems like a lot of extra work. Is this because you don't like they way Trueflow is trapping your files? I don't...

I often edit pdfs in Pitstop Version 8, Update 4 and send them to our Trueflow 6 RIP. I am not necessarily adjusting the trap but other considerations such as color, page size, photo adjustments, etc. The only problem I have had is that the pdfs can't be secured or Trueflow rejects them. Hope...

The upgrade should handle the transparency issues. It is the biggest reason we upgraded.

No, we just just adjust the trap in the RIP and use the Trap Editor viewing option periodically. We have never had a problem with the trap settings in TrueFlow. We do have the Page Optimizer option however which allows you to gang run odd sizes on one sheet. I see that as a huge benefit rather...

Quark has known issues with newer versions of pdfs.

We just upgraded from 3 to 6 and the main reason was the handling of transparency issues in the Creative Suite package, ie Indesign, Photoshop and Illustrator. These issues will become more apparent in CS4 as well. It depends on how much time you want to spend fixing such issues. The learning...

Finally got this message from Quark. Not a big help since I no longer have Quark 6.5 on my puter but at least they got back to me. Dear Pamela, Thank you for replying back I apologize for the inconvenience caused. We are able to replicate the issue and our research and development team is...

After I get past a few emergencies here at work, I will give it a try. Thanks

Okay, I don't believe it is a font management software issue. I just dumped my postscript Helvetica into the System folder with the same results. Everything points back to Quark.

Thanks. I have turned this over to Quark but don't have a lot of faith they will fix the problem. Have not been able to do further testing as work beckons, however until then, I will probably turn to InDesign or avoid Italic sans serif fonts. I have printed the article and will take it home...

Distiller will not allow me to remove all the fonts, particularly the Suitcase fonts. I have never heard of the startup postscript for Distiller that Toronor refers to. I was also never aware of this problem in the past but what you are saying about it making an artificial italic is how...

Jaimez, No offense taken was just letting you know that I did know about the font attribution. You have no idea what my level of knowledge is but thought it might help to know that I am a bit of an old-timer having started with PageMaker 1.0 UGH! I loved Quark but have used all programs...