Recent content by ratbag

You can set the job options to save themselves as an attachment in the pdf.

done, thank you :)

Cheers for the advice, I asked our trueflow tech, and he had never heard of a maintenance sheet, it's not in pdf format by chance?

Our system can be incredibly unresponsive at times, and it seems to be getting worse. I have my theories. I worked for another company years ago who used TFv2, and every month I'd clean all hot folders and impo templates that had been completed from the system. This would keep it running fairly...

I can't believe some of the advice handed out by prepress pros in this thread. Acrobat 6, 7, 8 and I suppose 9 have a pdf optimiser (in the print production toolbar). In 7 & up you can save presets. Create a preset that strips pdfs of all unnecessary crap. Lower the resolution & jpeg quality...

Re: how to convert PDF text to vector outlines - and other elements Although I couldn't give a toss about licensing restrictions when outputting a job because such restrictions are spastic, I'm not sure that it is a violation. You can no longer use the font as a font, and really, it's no longer...

Re: how to convert PDF text to vector outlines - and other elements what the hell, whats up with the first name business?!

Re: how to convert PDF text to vector outlines - and other elements Open the pdf in InDesign (or pitstop 6 and below). Make a box near the artwork, fill it with a colour, set to 0% opacity. This introduces transparency to the document. In Acrobat choose the transparency flattener or export...