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Verdant Graphics is seeking (2) full time, two-color offset printing press operators to work in its newly renovated, historic location in Downtown Grand Rapids, MI. Successful candidates must exhibit a proven background in offset printing and color management, and have the ability and desire to...

I'm talking about XMPIE, which uses Adobe's InDesign Server technology to allow people to customize jobs in a web based format. Very cool software, but also very expensive.

There is software out there that can do this, but I believe you're looking in the $50,000 plus range from what I've seen so far. If anyone knows of a cheaper way, please let me know as well.

Have you tried "Paste without formatting"?

It sounds like they didn't give you all of the font. What size is the zip file before you uncompress it?

It's easy, just make your canvas the size you need it and put the original image onto a layer. Remove the "Background" layer so that you have a transparent background. Copy the image onto an new layer and flip it to give your reflection. Then add a layer mask to the reflection layer and using...

It looks to me as though you're putting a transparent box over a solid image. I think if you want transparency in this particular case you'd be better off creating the image/reflection in photoshop and saving as a layered tiff or native psd.

Hey guys, does anyone here know how to change the default file size when using the combine PDF feature of Acrobat 9? Currently when I use it, the dialog box opens and there are three icons for choosing file size, the middle one being selected by default. I want these files to print at the...

Pantone makes such a device, we have one at our office. I can't think of it's name right now, but I do know that it's not very accurate. You get a different reading every time you try it. Honestly, we don't even use it. It's much quicker and accurate for us to just match the color to a swatch...

You won't get exactly the same look, but since it's 2 color silver and gold you could spec out metallic PMS colors. Also, instead of creating gradients I've found that using the blend tool and blending shapes and colors together gives you better reproducibility (is that a word??), and gives you...

Are you applying any sort of profile when exporting the job out?

Does your customer at least have access to InDesign? If so you could make a 64-page template for him and create a library of all the possible ad sizes. He could just drag each ad box from the library as he sees fit in order to create his layout. If he doesn't have access to InDesign and needs a...

Yes, and I'd like to re-iterate that you must have the channel selected when pasting, otherwise the image may not place in the exact spot you want it to. I've had issues before when pasting in channels, and it's always boiled down to what is selected when doing the pasting.

I used to use Font Agent Pro as well, until I found Linotype. I have several paid licenses for FAP that are being unused because Linotype was so much better.

It could also be that you accidentally typed in a dimension in the crop tool bar and it's making the crop size small enough that it's cropping the entire image. The shield checkbox will make everything grey if this was the case.