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The real problem as I see it is that many if not most companies really don't give a fair paper or electronic option. If you “go paperless” at best they send you an e-mail that invites you to see your statement on-line. Sometimes it is a web page rendition. Sometimes they make a PDF file version...

I'd have no objections if recertification was every five years or so. - Dov

;) - Dov

This isn't at all unusual for professional degrees and certifications. Medical doctors, dentists, veterinarians, etc. all have requirements for ongoing, continuing professional education and recertification. Quite frankly, we quite often see “issues” in the printing industry due to the failure...

The general response to this question is to avoid any Microsoft Windows color management in print drivers. In general, it never really worked, especially with PostScript printers. Their color management was for raster images only and sometimes. If you are printing from Adobe Acrobat/Reader to a...

They announced that they are restarting their Ektachrome production lines! :rolleyes: Isn't that a growth engine? :p - Dov

No, it wasn't only you that provided feedback. ;)

There was actually quite a bit of feedback and it did take a good amount of work to be able to expand what was Typekit to Adobe Fonts. It is important to remember that Adobe didn't and doesn't own the vast majority of the fonts that were in Typekit and in fact paid royalties for those from...

Agree that your English is perfectly fine! ;) I know that this doesn't help when you are confronted with these types of issues on a press at 3:00am in the morning, but you should give feedback to whoever is providing such wonky content that they should seriously consider simplifying such...

Why not put together a set of examples that prove your point? For a particular job, show what is involved in submitting source (i.e., “native”) files including all referenced graphics, ICC color profiles, fonts (remember the licensing legal issues here!), etc. versus submitting a press-ready...

The feature in Acrobat for comparing PDF files should not be relied on for considering detailed graphic arts attribute comparison, but rather, gross level comparison of text. - Dov

The reason why overprint preview is not defaulted on in the general case is that there is a tremendous performance overhead hit taken when overprint preview is enabled. The reality is that except for overprinting CMYK=(0,0,0,1) text, overprint is not that commonly used since the advent of...

OK, thanks for the pointer. If you have saved the file as PDF without the Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities option selected, see below, the PDF is absolutely not an editable PDF file. Opening it is Illustrator or CorelDRAW (as advertised on that web page) and if you don't have the fonts...

Exactly what are you saving the Illustrator file as? I can imagine scenarios by which you save a copy of the Illustrator document as a PDF/X-1a file and then try to open that in Illustrator. Unless you save an Illustrator document as a PDF file with the enable editability option set, reopening...

Maybe you can have those “sales reps” sent off to a retraining gulag? Or maybe make them eat the costs of reprinting out of their commissions when they don't properly communicate best practice requirements to their customers? ;) - Dov

What PDF standard do you specify for the customers? You should be specifying PDF/X-4 which normally would show overprint preview on within Acrobat. If the user specifies PDF/X-4 export from InDesign or save from Illustrator and specifies the PDF/X-4 joboptions, when viewed in Acrobat, any...

The original reason for the Adobe Acrobat Distiller was to provide a convenient means by which PDF files could be produced by any application that was capable of printing using standard, system PostScript drivers. The PostScript route was chosen since for early PDF, PostScript was relatively...

I won't pretend to speak for other software vendors, but the fact is that Adobe's Creative/Document Cloud software (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat Pro) work every bit as well under Windows as they do on MacOS both in terms of features/functionality and performance. There are only two...

Contact the font foundry and ask them what they know about this. It could be an issue of a digital signature in the font or perhaps even a Windows bug (not unheard of). What happens if you copy the particular font into one of the Adobe application-specific font directories? Do those...

@bbertolani. what are you actually looking for? In terms of profiles, checks, and fixups, the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Pro DC has most everything in pdfToolbox 9.x (less any Javascript support) since Acrobat' Preflight is in fact a major subset of pdfToolbox. Future updates will...