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    Acrobat (latest) and large number page PDFs

    That's a higher number of pages than any PDF I've worked with by a factor of at least eight. Have you had experience with PDFs of such a high page count behaving better? The page objects in the PDF are usually nested in a balanced tree structure. Perhaps the page objects in your problematic...
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    Can You Please Test – Colour or Mono Click?

    DYP, We must have posted at the same time - just saw your last comment. I would say the clue is in the name ("device"), meaning the specification of device values, which implies that color management is not desired.
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    Can You Please Test – Colour or Mono Click?

    DYP, It looks like a profile is assigned, as an output intent (which effectively tags every CMYK object in the document). Stephen, The text in your registration test file is 0/0/0/100 CMYK, so that might get the same results as the file with CMYK crop marks.
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    Can You Please Test – Colour or Mono Click?

    I wouldn't have assigned profiles in the test file either, since device CMYK seems most appropriate for the test. If he had assigned profiles, he would probably get a lot of false-positive color clicks from testers who didn't examine the file and take measures to avoid CMYK color management. In...
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    Hi-Fi color survey

    I'm a bit confused by the current poll results. It says that 11 have voted, 10 of which selected "I do not get requests for Hi-Fi printing," but the percentage is 58.82 (which would be 10/17). I would think "I do not get requests for Hi-Fi printing," "I get requests for it but I do not offer...
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    Hi-Fi color survey

    I'm guessing "users online" is the total number of users, including dormant ones, not how many users are actually actively hitting the web server. The "most users online ever" is usually equal to that number.
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    Hi-Fi color survey

    Should "I would like to offer Hi-Fi printing to my customers" only be selected by someone who has charge of that decision, or is it synonymous with "I would like to see my company offer Hi-Fi printing?"
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    Good to be back

    We should change the name of that thread to "Chilling Effects."
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    Linotronic RIP 50 hard drive

    Is this some kind of custom hardware, or is it a regular computer running a common operating system with the rip software running on top of that?
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    Measurement and comparison methods for metallics and foils

    You might find some useful information here: http://johnthemathguy.blogspot.com/2014/09/measuring-metallic-inks.html?m=1
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    Pitstop Action Help - Adding stroke to TRIM BOX

    You also need "Set Stroke overprint to on," which will appear as "Change overprint" initially when searching for it. The overprint mode is another property, and is usually best set to mode 1. If you change "select fill color" to "Select last added objects," you can avoid any existing objects...
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    Determining Spine Width

    We've always multiplied the text caliper by the number of 2 page leaves, added 1/32 inch, then rounded to the nearest 1/32 inch. If it were up to me, I'd probably round to the nearest .01 inch, but I don't think we've ever had to reprint anything due to inaccuracy (except when someone uses the...
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    Identifying layered TIFs in InDesign

    The script was designed to run from a file on the contents of the directory that file is located in. ${BASH_SOURCE[0]} evaluates to the path of the script, then the script changes the working directory to be its location. When automator runs it, there isn't really a source file, so...
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    Identifying layered TIFs in InDesign

    Thanks! If I had to do this with Applescript, I'd probably just wrap most of the bash version with "do shell script." I wouldn't be surprised if some of what bash and the utility commands it invokes are doing could be done directly with Applescript, though. I hate Applescript, but at the same...
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    Identifying layered TIFs in InDesign

    This won't flatten any TIFFs, but it should quickly separate the flat ones from the layered ones. If you're using a Mac, copy and paste the following into a blank TextEdit document that is "plain text" not "rich text" (changeable in the Format menu). Save it with a filename ending in ".command"...
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    upscaling images in pdf

    Hmm. Still crap. I've enlarged it by a factor of 2 (with nearest neighbor if that's okay). Edit: no difference - the forum software is reducing to a fixed size apparently. Hope you can read between the pixels.
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    upscaling images in pdf

    No Title It looks like my screen shot was downsampled and isn't readable. Surely nothing a little bicubic interpolation can't fix. :) Trying a different method here.
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    upscaling images in pdf

    The PDF specification provides for an interpolation entry in image dictionaries. When set, (it's boolean - either on or off), it instructs the output device to interpolate the pixels at device resolution. I don't believe compliance is considered to be mandatory, and there is no method of...
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    Lab color read with i1 Pro 2

    I use Argyll CMS: http://www.argyllcms.com. It's a free open-source software package that follows the Unix philosophy (many independent commands that perform very specific functions that can be chained together, allowing you to do lots of things the software developers didn't have to think about...
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    can i find solution in acrobat for missing image link in illustrator

    In Acrobat, select File > Save As Other... > Optimized PDF.... Uncheck every category except "Discard User Data," and in that category uncheck everything except for "Discard private data of other applications." You might want to make sure the Acrobat version compatibility ("Make compatible...
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