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Between the announcement of CS6 and actual shipping dates Adobe usually allows about a one month grace period during which purchasing or upgrading to CS5.5 would qualify you for a free upgrade to CS6. In reality the CS5.5 boxes will disappear from the retailers within a week or so, and there is...

I've been out for a bit but today have been in touch with the designer and got hold of the native files, it turns out the split text file is a Freehand MX EPS, open the EPS in FreehandMX and its magically back as text shapes, open the EPS with Illy or Distill and you have the long strips. I'm...

Lukas has suggested its a clipping path that has been split due to the number of points, I'm thinking that a whole paragraph of text converted to outline is a sort of compound path with many many points and somewhere an application is deciding to simplify this by splitting it into horizontal...

I have a PDF (according to its properties its created by Distiller 9.0.0 from QuarkXPress pictwpstops filter 1.0) of an outer cover it has the wrong spine size so I'd usually place this 3 times in InDesign and create a new one with the correct size spine. 1st question: What looks like text in...

I thought Perceptual moved ALL the colours (the whole space) not just "those colours available in the original colour space but not in the destination colour space". I also had no idea that the rendering intent had to be included in the destination profile so am hoping to learn more.

RGB to another RGB space Perceptual, wouldn't that be the same result as Assign Profile. Perceptual aims to keep the differences at the expense of the colour or am I having a doh! moment. Fascinating discussion by the way.

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...