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    Looking for an artworker/prepress job in Scotland!

    Hi there! I've been away from the site for a while, and that's because my job got credit crunched away last summer. The first thing I did was take a good long sabbatical, and now I'm ready to get back into the industry. I've worked in agencies, in prepress and in print management, so I know the...
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    Converting PDF to bilevel (automatic solution)

    I have a 600 page PDF document (it's a scanned book) with a colour cast (brown text on yellow). What is my best approach to getting black text on white? I have been playing with the Convert Colors... feature in Acrobat 8 Pro without success. Is there some sort of extreme colour profile I can...
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    Quartz filters and smooth shading

    Is anyone using Apple's Quartz filters to automatically generate low-resolution PDF files and/or thumbnail images? I have the problem that the filter chokes on smooth shadings and leaves them out of the generated PDF or JPEG. I don't know why this is happening, but since our client's logo...
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    InDesign: Import XML via AppleScript

    is it possible for InDesign to import XML from a string in memory as well as from a file? I'm generating XML from an AppleScript and controlling ID from the same one, so it would be nice not to have to write a file and read it in again. I know about "import XML from +file+" What I want to do...
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    XML into InDesign -- paragraph breaks?

    I'm trying to import an XML file and map it to styles in InDesign CS3. Every time I import the file the paragraph breaks (aka hard returns) get changed to plain line breaks, meaning that I can't apply different paragraph styles to different tags, since as far as ID knows the text is all the same...
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    All the things that can go wrong with Word files

    I'm wondering who has tried and tested workflows for dealing with MS Word files to get usable PDFs for four colour print from them. We're often getting Word files of unknown provenance. Sometimes they already reflow when we open them in Word 2004 on the Mac. The users are clearly not...
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    Odd bug -- type in PDF appears on screen but disappears on the RIP

    I recently had a PDF file created by InDesign CS which displayed perfectly on screen, but when we ripped it the text disappeared. It's a really simple two color document (compliment slip). I'm inclined to think this is a bug, as if I wanted to reproduce this behaviour I wouldn't know how. It...

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