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Adobe single user perpetual licensed products are transferrable. What is not transferrable are parts of volume licenses! For example, if a company bought a volume license for 100 seats of CS6, it cannot resell any of those seats, i.e., you cannot legally unbundle a volume license. In the case...

You got your response from Adobe. It's phony! - Dov

On behalf of Adobe Systems Incorporated … There is no perpetual license option for Photoshop CC. Whatever is installed on that system at “a local auction site” is not kosher in any way, shape, or form. The fact that the system being sold has this particular cracked version of Photoshop, it...

OK. Now I understand what you are talking about and what your real issue is! MacOS files have two components, a data fork which is typically the data you would have in regular files and a resource fork which is the data which would typically be found in executables and certain system resources...

No there isn't. That having been said, why would “fonts easily go broken” when transferring? I have never seen or heard anything like this in all our experience at Adobe with InDesign, packaging of InDesign projects, or fonts. If you are having trouble with font files getting corrupted on your...

Remember that what you “own” with a perpetual license is the right to use the software indefinitely, but with no long term support for OS changes that preclude the ability to run on new OS versions and/or hardware configurations (both Apple and Microsoft are guilty of this now) without upgrading...

There is clearly a difference between a print job for which the customer provides a truly print-ready PDF file for which due diligence has been performed to assure as best as possible that content will print as expected and rank amateurs who really need assistance preparing content. For that...

This is exactly why many such “small shops” are going out of business. You can't simply make a single investment in equipment, software, and training (many skip the training) and expect to run a successful business for the indefinite future without additional investments and updated training...

First of all, smaller file sizes. PDF 1.4 doesn't have compressed object streams for text and vector. PDF/X-4 has rules with regards to font embedding that yield higher reliability in terms of rendering under more conditions and of course, it enforces embedding of ICC color profiles (for RGB...

If your “proofs” are not meant for color accuracy, then what are they meant for? How do they differ from the PDF provided to you? What real added value do they provide? This doesn't make any real sense for either you or your customer(s). :rolleyes: - Dov

On behalf of Adobe Systems Incorporated… We most strongly recommend using the PDF/X-4 PDF export settings for either InDesign or Illustrator. All direct PDF RIPs from the last 8 to 10 years using the Adobe PDF Print Engine technology or even the Global Graphics Harlequin technology should be...

Sorry, but that doesn't hack it as soft proofing since 300 dpi is way less than printing resolution and JPEG compression is lossy and not only can, but will introduce artifacts that won't be seen in real printed output. - Dov

FWIW. A few thoughts: (1) If you are a print service provider providing a “proof” to a customer in PDF form, it really should be a raster PDF file coming directly from the same RIP used for printing. Each page should be a single ZIP-compressed (to avoid compression artifacts that accompany JPEG...

And we all remember how Saint Icahn killed TWA by using it as a personal piggybank for his other corporate raiding activities (Texaco, for example). Bills himself as an “activist investor” but is in fact in it all for himself!

Actually, Acrobat Preflight does show a problem with the PDF file itself in terms of the embedded font. The CIDToGIDMap is invalid. But there are no images in this sample you provided, just text and vector objects. Generally speaking, though, one normally never specifies any halftone patterns...

You attached a JPEG file, not the PDF file. Without the PDF file, there isn't anything we can do to analyze what's going on and assist you in any way. Sorry! - Dov

Post some samples and maybe someone can really assist you! ;) - Dov

Please note that importing PDF is very different than opening PDF files. Importing is “placing” PDF content which is static. Opening is trying to treat the PDF file as a .AI file. - Dov

I'd love to see a copy of that presentation when completed. Or if you would like me to review it before presenting, give a holler at <[email protected]>. - Dov

Almost any PDF file originating in Microsoft Office, especially if it uses artificial embolding (i.e., one presses the bold button but there is no bold face for the font family) will be problematic in Illustrator or if it is from Excel! And of course, opening a PDF file in Illustrator if the...