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The result from exporting is not the same as any of the options in Photoshop. It is better for most images. If you have an image that is 500 ppi resampled to 400 ppi, then you are reducing every five columns to four and every five rows to four, or a bunch of 5x5 matrices to 4x4 matrices. For...

Try creating a document with everything on a master page except for the variable data, then merge and apply the master to all of the pages. This would prevent unnecessary duplication of objects in Indesign. Based on some tests I ran a long time ago (with CS3), Indesign appears to not...

If you are supplying a PDF and not the native files, definitely do it in Indesign. Then you can resample images as the PDF is made using the settings in the PDF export dialog. You can also have RGB converted to CMYK automatically without having to edit each image (if all CMYK is what you want to...

If a missing font is in a link instead of native content, it won't be moved to the top of the list in the "Find Font..." dialog. Did you scroll all the way down the list? Do you see the font in the font list anywhere? This may have changed in CS4, but if a font was only used for paragraph...

I'm using Apogee Prepress 5, but we don't send plates from it, so I can't confidently answer your question because it might depend upon parameters in task processors I don't have. Try adding an "Archive Result" action to your platesetter or RIP task processor in the job plan, then archive...

If you are making a PDF from Indesign, you can probably still export to PDF using Acrobat 4.0 compatibility, which will flatten transparency. An inability to process transparency in the RIP is probably why Distiller is preferred. You can also try printing to the printer "Adobe PDF...," which I'm...

Could there be a white stroke around the text with zero weight? It also looks like there is a slightly darker outline around the text in your screen-shot (where the trap area would be). Does it really look that way or is it just JPEG detritus? Your output preview window reads 100% for 7464, so...

I don't think there is any different between CS3 & CS4 (at least with the latest patches). If you select a text container and convert to outlines, rules will disappear in addition to bullets/numbering, underlines, and any fill or stroke applied to the text container. If you select all of the...

Are you setting the text to overprint in Indesign or just in your RIP? If you are only telling your RIP to overprint all text, maybe the setting only applies to black (or maybe just process colors). A setting that would apply to all text regardless of color would not normally be very useful, as...

Stephen, You need to add a colon before "print."

Stephen, You are correct that the OP could not search for a different font because everything is likely in Futura. The find/change process I suggested does not do this, however. Rather, it searches for all characters that are not normal ASCII or white-space characters, regardless of what font...

Stephen, In Unicode, there is not a one-to-one relationship between bytes in a file and characters (except that in UTF-8 encoding the standard 128 ASCII characters are directly mapped to the same bytes they are in 8-bit ASCII). This allows for more than 256 standardly defined code points. There...

You should be able to do this with Indesign's Find/Change process. With all of the text in Futura, select Edit>Find/Change.... In the Find/Change window, change to the "GREP" tab. In the "Find what:" field, enter "[^[:space:][:print:]]" (without the quotation marks), then click on the...

Joe, Mea culpa. I guess I read through your post about as carefully as Congress reads the bills they pass.

Nick, I was not able to repeat the problem. With neither Helvetica nor Arial loaded, I was able to edit the text and add characters without any errors. The "Enfocus Inspector" window in your screen-shot appears different from mine, which probably means you have a different Pitstop version...

I believe that will flip the selected objects with the reflection axis going through the center of the selection. Since you probably want to flip on page center, you might want to first add a rectangle outside the page edge that is equidistant from the left and right page edges. Or note the...

A client's designer apparently has a bug in Indesign CS3 (5.0.4, OS X). Attached is screen-shot. When "process" and "CMYK" are selected, I believe there should always be four sliders with 4 text boxes to choose a CMYK color, never a list of swatches. The list appears to be of web-safe RGB colors...

Nick, Rather than a screen-shot, please post a PDF file that exhibits the problem.

Nick, I don't understand your post completely, but based on my assumptions, Angie's suggestion is definitely best. If for some reason that isn't feasible, try putting ARIAL.TTF in Library/Application Support/Adobe/Fonts and restarting Acrobat. If the font is Helvetica, it's rather unusual that...

Are you supplying film/plates to the printer? Can you just give them the files and let them handle it? Or does "printer" mean "pressman?" Maybe tha'ts a UK vs. US thing. I wonder wether FM screens are often used in flexo, given the nature of the process. If FM is okay, I agree with...