Search results

Just to confuse you further, here is a scenario where changing the names of PANTONE colours from the default naming convention in Illustrator would be useful. If you have a need to convert these colours to cmyk and you have a particular cmyk set of numbers that you need to keep consistent...

It's the same behaviour with the Output Preview if you add a new spot colour to a PDF with pitstop, I don't think the output preview was ever envisaged to reflect real-time changes.

might be completely unrelated but there is a known issue with Lion In Illustrator CS5 and CS5.1, the option to save or export is disabled in the Save As Or Export dialog box if the save location is the desktop. See Save/Export button is disabled on OS 10.7 | Illustrator CS5/CS5.1. My...

I ran some tests once that downsampled high ppi images in pdfs to 300ppi. The one's that were jpegged were worse than the no compression. Re-applying jpeg compression to the 300ppi made them worse again. It also made a big difference which Application did the downsampling (quark pitstop and...

.idml will only open with CS4, someone will have to use CS4 to Export to .inx before CS3 can open it.

Thanks Michel, never too late! Your information at least explains exactly what's going on between cards and presses. It turns out the link between the press duct control and the physical ducts on the press needs a bit of manual tweaking too.

you need to resolve any color space / pantone conversions before you flatten the transparency. Saving as EPS will flatten. I seem to remember overprint+transparency (cmyk+cmyk) gets worked out the same as working out what the overprint color (Result 1) would be then applying the transparency...

Its got a Diagonal Register Button on the CPC console, not sure is this is controlled by the card though.

One of the press guys reckoned it was CPC 1-03, how do you tell for sure?

We have two 102 presses. We send a prinergy generated PPF file to Heidelberg PrepressInterface version 3.0.0.2 and then transfer the data to an OMNI DRIVE Heidelberg CPC card, this card is taken over to the press. This all works well with our newer press. The card has forty "slots" but only slot...

The problem is that a Delta List is a later workflow stage to PDF, you can't go back to vector and jpeg image compression. I think of it as a series of contones and bitmaps that the screening tower can apply screen to, the file sizes tend to be big. I used to screen dump from Delta Document...

With Quark4 Export to PDF... command was under Utilities. Distiller Selection was under Quark's General Preferences rather than it's PDF Preferences. Its quite sad enough me typing this stuff without you re-installing :)

Quark needs to use postscript as an interim format to create a PDF (I believe this is still the same with v9, but have only used up to v8.5). Quark 4 and 5 both have Export to PDF commands but you have to have Acrobat Distiller installed and set Quark's Preferences so that it knows where...

We still have a Linotype Hell S3010 but its not been wired up since we moved premises last September (2010) In that time we've only once been asked for quality drum scan. We get by on a Heidelberg Linoscan 1200 running Linocolour Elite (v6) which is a nice flatbed, even that was recently...

Thanks Joe, now I just need to convince the MD to part with the cash.

Thanks Joe, would you know if I was to upgrade to Prinergy 5.1 could I still keep using Preps 5?

My prinergy 5.0.3.2.1 is still handling this one wrong. Don't know if 5.1 (or later) fixed anything like this.

Layers are supposed to move by Holding the OPTION (alt) Key down when dragging them in Acrobat's Layer panel. I'm not having any success with this if the Document wasn't created with layers and they are created by Pitstop (following JonasY's instructions). I've read somewhere that Acrobat...

I can confirm it behaves the same on my set up. I've got Acrobat 9 (intel-imac 10.5), and 8 and 7 (on a PPC 10.4). I'm running Prinergy 5.0.3.2.1 It views differently in Acrobat 9, (probably how its intended to look) both before and after refining. I tried outputting a cyan plate and that...

I've got Acrobat 9 (intel-imac 10.5), and 8 and 7 (on a PPC 10.4). I'm running Prinergy 5.0.3.2.1 I've seen one or two PDFs that display differently, but only one where the VPS matched the incorrect Acrobat 7 and 8. I never got around to trying to output that one to plate what happens to yours...