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  1. Danny Whitehead

    Opening PDF files in Illustrator

    Still present in Yosemite. Baffling, really.
  2. Danny Whitehead

    Opening PDF files in Illustrator

    Including, inexplicably, Apple Preview.
  3. Danny Whitehead

    Opening PDF files in Illustrator

    It would make life easier if people that misuse any tool didn't have access to it. Doesn't mean you should cripple the tools. If you're still denying any legitimate uses for these functions, your loss.
  4. Danny Whitehead

    Opening PDF files in Illustrator

    I'm not just talking about print production. For instance, a designer might take a PDF of a design into Photoshop to make a visual mockup. They might want to apply an effect to type that vector applications can't do. They might have to rasterise something for a website. They might, having failed...
  5. Danny Whitehead

    Opening PDF files in Illustrator

    There are plenty of legitimate reasons to rasterise a PDF or set text in Photoshop. And there are plenty of reasons to crack into a PDF with Illy, most of them in less than ideal circumstances, and I'm not talking prepress fixups. If you took out every frequently misused features out of Adobe...
  6. Danny Whitehead

    InDesign Mystery

    I think it's a bug. I've seen it in when I've tried to import all pages of a lot of disparate PDFs (with/without necessary page boxes, different page counts etc) into an InDesign document, and it's failed to bring everything in. I could delete every page in the document, and there'd still be...
  7. Danny Whitehead

    Compression Marks

    I tend to use a Levels adjustment in Photoshop, dragging the white point in a little. It's destructive, as you're bleaching out highlight detail along with the artifacts, but usually, images with this problem are pretty poor in the first place, so it's not so critical.
  8. Danny Whitehead

    Muddy B&W Images

    As Gordo has suggested, I think dot gain is your main problem. Compensate for/predict this better and your pressman won’t have to knock the solids back to stop the tones being too dark. To add to what Stephen has said about keeping contrast between hues, in Photoshop, I usually use a Curves...
  9. Danny Whitehead

    A little color test

    As I understand it, and I'd welcome corrections, the files you got back will show what RGB values are being sent to the monitor, not the effect a monitor profile has on how they're displayed. I think that taking a tagged image, opening it in Photoshop, converting to and assigning the monitor...

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