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Do you see the error in Acrobat? If so, the problem shouldn't have anything to do with your RIP system (unless you're using a feature of the RIP to make the PDF). Try unchecking "crop image data to frames." The messed up area doesn't look like random noise, but rather like the pixels data...

How many parts? Is the rest of the form already printed? Are they glued (if not, are the sheets in forward or reverse order)? All just black ink? Printed on one side only? Just to be sure, they all have a different barcode, right? Does the barcode have to be on every part or just one (and if so...

claude72, Nice examples. I've often thought of making something like that to use as a sort of tutorial for designers who use Photoshop for everything. When you save as a PDF from Photoshop, you will see that the fonts are embedded, however the text is still not rendered in the same way as it...

A 300 ppi image scaled to .75 would yield a final resolution of 400 ppi, not 350. When placing a PSD in Indesign, I'm pretty sure it uses the composite image unless the layers are selectively turned on or off, in which case it uses the raster image of each text layer saved in the PSD file (the...

Rich, I think the rendering mode allows text that uses normally visible glyphs to be invisible (maybe to insert a hidden sort of "watermark" or to overlay OCR text over a scanned image to retain the image but have searchable text). The problem is that every check (at least that I know of) in...

We upgraded from Series 3 to ApogeeX 3.5, then 4, now at :Apogee :Prepress :Version :5 (hopefully senselessly prepended colons do not nauseate you). Overall, the improvement is significant. Version 3.5 wasn't much faster software-wise, but the time spent per job was a lot less because we went...

Assuming you want to convert CMYK to CMYK, you could make sure the source profile is assigned, change your default CMYK to the destination profile, then cycle the document color mode (File > Document Color Mode) to RGB and back to CMYK. This would be slightly less accurate and probably introduce...

If you want 7.22 instead of 7.52, use this link: http://demodl.element5.com/50591/Enfocus_PP7.22US_Setup.tar.gz

Rich, I think the invisible text lines have a single space character in them. You will usually get this at the end of any line with a hard return also, not just the empty ones, and it should be in whatever font the return character was in. I'm curious how you're getting PDF's with all fonts...

Hurstville: I tested this on a computer with some version of some operating system using some version of Illustrator, and here's what I found: Guides must not be locked. "Snap to Point" or "Smart Guides" or both must be turned on (in the view menu). Guide snapping is much less buggy and (in...

If you have the zoom feature turned on, you can quickly zoom in and out by holding the control key and using the scroll wheel. It's a setting you can define in the universal access preference pane, but I think this is the default. I find it very useful. You can quickly zoom in on an area of the...

If you make a PDF with added bleed and no marks, the trim box still indicates the intended trimmed size. This doesn't work if you create an oversized document where the bleed is inside the page, but neither would the automatically generated marks. I always check the trim box to find out what the...

When you place a PDF in Indesign, if you select "Show Import Options," you will get a dialog that lets you choose what box Indesign will crop the PDF to. The bleed is added when exporting in the "Marks and Bleeds" category, and if you set bleeds and turn off marks, you'll get a PDF that is...

I don't think there's anything you could do to the PDF that would in any way indicate an ink laydown sequence, short of embedding private application data designed for a specific application to interpret. In a PDF, only the objects are stacked in a meaningful order - the colorants are not. Even...

According to my experience and what I was told by Agfa over a year ago, Prindrive can only store 1 bit data. They did tell me it can accept contone input, but screens it when it is input - exactly how and with what resource I don't know, I just asked out of curiosity when calling about something...

If your proofing system essentially assumes that inks are completely transparent, there may be no easy way to do it. I use a different system than you (Agfa Printdrive), and this is the only way it works. I'm assuming yours is the same way, but hopefully someone who's familiar with it will...

Obama said during the campaign that we can't drive our SUV's, eat as much as we want and keep our thermostat at 72 degrees and expect every other country to say "okay." I expect now that we've made an economic suicide pact to transfer our polution (i.e., industry) a few thousand miles away to...

As far as I know, it wouldn't be possible for type to "reflow" in any PDF the same way it does with more editable document formats (words moving from one line or page to another and hyphenation changing). Each text line is always an independent object and there is no concept of a text frame or...

When we get a PDF file, I usually go through it page by page examining black generation, bleeds, overprinting, etc. In order to accurately judge the bleeds, the cropped area of the PDF should be exactly the same as the trimmed size plus bleeds. I'll normally crop off any unnecessary spine bleed...

You're right - I've been using a RIP system for so long that I forgot about outputting camera-ready artwork or straight to a platesetter. Maybe the software could ask you if you're making a PDF file to send to a printer or publisher, and if you say yes, then it makes you set your clock back.