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I don't miss having to routinely make the case for every necessary upgrade to bosses, or having to ask customers to backsave files to our version, or being asked the same by suppliers. And I definitely don't find not having to do those things comparable to a protection racket. The subscription...

Yeah, I expected the converting to halftone bitmap step to do what the 'colour halftone' filter does - make a bunch of round dots with no regard for the edges. It actually keeps the edges like an actual RIP does.

I vaguely remember such practices in the 90s, but couldn't remember how it was done, so I couldn't resist trying. I opened a PDF in PS at 1200ppi, duplicated each channel to a grayscale document, changed the mode to bitmap, halftone, 150lpi and assigned the angles, duped them back into a CMYK...

I'm not really au fait with imposition for wide format, but I'm sure there's plenty of folk here who are. Sounds like your other issue is colour management. Do you have anything in place in that regard - custom media profiles, conversion policies and the like?

Ah, looks like short run, large format inkjet fine art reproductions. Is that right? If that's the case, it sound like it might be imposition software you need more than a RIP. I think people might have assumed offset litho or screenprinting, and using Photoshop to generate final, 1-bit...

What kind of printing?

It's been discussed ad nauseam on the Adobe forums over the years... or is that decades? I think a good warning would probably be better than a change in functionality. I'd personally prefer that only spot white swatches could be set to overprint, but I could see that causing issues with legacy...

Here's mine: PDF files are best viewed with Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader. Other PDF readers may display inaccurately. Download Acrobat Reader for free by clicking the above link. Please set 'Overprint Preview' to 'Always' (Edit > Preferences > Page Display on Windows, and Adobe Acrobat...

There's an ISO accreditation logo that appears on thousands of companies' stationery here in the UK. After finally getting the vector files from the accreditation company's media department, I luckily spotted that it was white type overprinted on a Pantone 288 rectangle. I dread to think how...

Sometimes, when the designer doesn't really understand what they're doing, it can end up being more trouble trying to explain things to them and the client, than it is to fix it. Prepress diplomacy, don't you just love it?

Ah... that's a bit reckless! Looks like Hard Light just doesn't work with spots. Will this spot colour be printed as spot? I've had a quick play around and it looks like converting it to process yields the same appearance as the misleading one you get without Overprint Preview. Ignore the text...

Yep, I don't think a race to the bottom would benefit western printers. I've read/watched a few interesting things about the new 'scramble for Africa' over the last few years. A particularly good, but not so political one was about African railways.

We're gonna build a wall, and the future's gonna pay for it.

So, they've created particular colours using overprints, transparency/blending modes, or both? And it's spot colours that will be printed with spot inks rather than converted to process? Transparency previews fine in Acrobat Reader without changing settings (which is why I've started using...

Environment? Social consequences? Who cares, so long as the demand for printed stuff is maintained and I'm paying no more for my equipment and consumables? Uhm, wait a minute.

Put very simply... Photoshop for raster image manipulation, colour correction etc. Illustrator for vector drawing (logos etc) and simpler, one or two page designs (although I personally use InDesign for these). InDesign for layout. Acrobat Pro for checking and fixing files for print if...

I think the reps see it as confirmation we're using the correct file, but it proves nothing. If we were so disorganised that we'd potentially print the wrong file, that could just as easily happen after approval. I guess the 'refined' PDF proofs at least 'prove' one part of the workflow, albeit...

I can't say anything for sure about AP90's, but based on ours, I expect they can. With our IC-308, we can export a raster PDF after processing... but we never do, even though our worknotes often request a 'ripped PDF proof'. In fact, 99% of the time, we send back the original PDF. These...

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It saves making a new PDF each time you update a document that goes into another document.