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In France, rubbish collection is under the control of the city and is paid by a tax taken by the city... sewer are also controlled by the city and paid by a tax to the city... For electricity and water, things are a little bit different, as there are two kinds of services that have to be...

Or perhaps a little bit egotist?... But they are happy to have electricity and water arriving to their house, happy to have a sewer-pipe under their house, happy to have their rubbishes collected twice the week, happy to send their kids to school, happy to drive their cars on roads and...

Better told your student that today, the 3 main file formats for pixels pictures are PSD, TIFF and PDF... ... and especially teach them that Photoshop EPS is "out of age" at least since Quark released XPress 6 (2003!!!)... and had already more inconvenients than advantages even in the old times...

I always have been very amazed and horrified that such a big and rich country as USA has no free healthcare for everybody... In France a basic healthcare is a natural part of our life (with also unemployement care and retirement), and all these cares are handled only by the governement as a...

Photoshop is not the right software for this job: better use InDesign or XPress to keep the text in vector mode... In France, 4 x 3 meters that are silk-screens printed use a 15 lpi ruling map... and generally printers ask for a 1/10th (= 40 x 30 cm) file at 300 ppi. (Your 68 cm width picture...

You're right: CAN be... it depends of lot of datas: the size of the print-shop, the number of plates output each month, the source of the files, etc. ... plus an extra parameter, because what is true in your country is not obligatorily true in another country, due to important variations in the...

Yes, and I guess that it's me! ;) I'm aware that it's perhaps a little bit exagerate... ... but not so much: when I upgraded to CS3, it cost me 5500 euros (= 7300 $)... and when the CS4 has been released 14 monthes later, I'm quite sure that I didn't had earn 5500 euros with my...

Just to finish my post... You're right... but sometimes InDesign is the best (or the less worst) last solution...: I often receive "dirty" PDFs made from office softwares (Publisher, Word, OpenOffice) either directly exported from these softs, or "distilled" by some crappy free PDF-izer (like...

PostScript+Distiller is still the best practice to make PDF for printers who cannot afford for your last PrintEngine RIP. (as every people working with computers) It's exactly what I hear since almost 20 years that I work with computers: each time that a problem occurs in a computer, involving...

Yeah... got exactly the same result than me with the 300 ppi rasterized texts of my "AB5" tests in the Viper!!! If you have the native PSD file (and some free times), it should be interesting to over-sample your file at 1200 ppi: the "vector" text should then be re-rasterized at the new...

I upgrade my OS to have just what is needed: only when I change the computer or when the softwares need a more recent version. Actually XPress7 and the CS3 need OS 10.4.11, and I have 10.4.11... no more. I upgrade my softs to have just what is needed: - I have a CS3 because today the highest...

Yes, but PDF-X4 begins only to be used, and 1.3 is the basis of all PDF-X1 norms, that are still in use... The reasons are not the same! JPEG is not vector based and is not multi-page and doesn't match with quality. But PDF 1.3 has all the features needed to print quality with a PostScript RIP...

No! because both devices have characteristics which show that they are not compatible... ... but in an opposite manner, the CS3 characteristics matche with my RIPs characteristics: - my RIPs are PostScript level 3 and PDF 1.3 compatible, - the CS3 needs a PostScript level 3 RIP and can output...

Yesssss... of course... and you are Elvis Presley and I am the Queen of England... :D :D :D Don't think I'm a fool: I clearly know how a capitalist companies works: cars manufacturer make more secure cars, many companies does advertising, cell-phones manufacturers makes keyboard that doesn't...

No: export PDF works fine ONLY with PrintEngine RIPs... so, beyond the Adobe's official propaganda (made mainly to force the printers to upgrade their RIPs and give more money to Adobe), on the field the rule is simple: - if the printer has a PrintEngine RIP, or ask explicitely for exported...

Yes, I remember... in french we call them "exé", which is the abbreviation (and a kind of nickname) for "exécutant"... (my dictionnary gives "executer", "producer" or "performer" as an english translation): they are the technicians who "execute" the job and "produce" the files according to...

That's normal: making a PDF is not a designer's job! and they often do simply what they can or what they believe that the printer needs... ... so the less ignorant use the Adobe's or Quark's "Export PDF" with the "Press" job-option, which outputs a quite good PDF that will not give problem to...

No... each time I have phoned to the hot-line to report a problem, it has never been corrected... and as much as possible the hot-line reject the responsability of the problem on 3rd part softwares, or on the user... and when they don't know, they simply ignore the e-mails. Joe is right : if...

Thanks for your help... I guess the answer is easy: bugs, and bugs and more bugs... And probably some of these bugs are volontarily left by Adobe to force the users to buy new version of the softs and new Print Engine RIPs...

I understand that a mix between old softs, old computer, old RIP and new files can cause some issues... ... but althought I have PostScript level 3 RIPs that both comply with Adobe's specifications for the CS3, I had already these troubles in the early times I used the CS3 (including Acrobat...