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Hi guys, I am posting this on behalf of another operator, so I have limited information. ***NOTE: WE WANT TO USE DISTILLER for pdf creation, we are aware you can make pdfs without distiller, our workflow is old and very tempermental. Ive been told that his Distiller refuses to make any pdfs at...

Hi there guys, I'm so sorry in advance, I'm very distressed! Firstly! Ive been running Acrobat 7 and Pitstop 7.22 on a happy G4 for 3years now. My boss has upgraded me to a second hand G5 - & its got lots a guts; Model Name: Power Mac G5 Model Identifier: PowerMac11,2 Processor Name...

Hi guys! Ive been working away for 3-4 years on a reliable G4 Mac, Running Acrobat 7 and Pitstop 7.22 like a dream. We have upgraded to a G5 with 10 gig of RAM trying to run Acrobat 7 and Pitstop 7.22. Why does it behave badly? Start up takes a long time and then actually working on the pdfs...

Hi there Guys! Im trying to migrate to a PPC G5 from a G4. G4 has had no problems, although on the NEW G5, when i try and save my indesign document to POSTSCRIPT I have 'no' ADOBE PPDS to choose from... :( I 'need' to send them as postscript from indesign... Can some one pretty please help...

Hi there guys! We have just bought a new G5 with OS X Leopard on it. We want to re-install Acrobat 7 and Pitstop 7.22 I have the original program to install for Acrobat 7, but Pitstop 7.22 was a download from the enfocus site about 3 years ago. I dont seem to have our copy of pitstop to...

Hi there guys, Our company is upgrading our G4 macs (OS X Tiger) with G5 macs (OS X Leopard) and a fellow college has told me about many problems they had with (OS X Leopard) such as problems creating postscript files. We are using Polkadots Workflow and HQ Rip (which already has config...

Hello again fellas!!! Im prepress on a mac, trev's production on a PC. We will be working together building templates for jobs. The boss wants one folder that we both access the templates, so we always working with the same templates. At the moment preps automatically stores my templates...

is it possible to make colour bars or stepwedges in illustrator and load them into your marks folder, and... 'when placing them into preps' tell it to 'not add tonal curve to wedges or colour bars'... I thought I saw this option once and i cant find it now, i'm wondering if it was just a dream...

Hi there Guys, Sorry about this lame preps question, but im not 'IT' and my boss wants me to un-install preps from our HQ RIP (PC). There is no documentation anywhere about how to un-install... :confused: He wants it then moved to another computer. I cant see any Un-installer file anywhere...

Hi there guys, I am experiencing something extremely strange... and need to know if there is something I am missing... Just to start, building a straight standard template in preps using 'Create Imposition' then using static marks (lines) for rule ups, (Sheet and Page ruler marks - using a...

Hi there guys, Im hoping someone out there could steer me in the right direction with custom marks in PREPS. I have set up the plate sizes in [Device Setup] & Set up the templates (temps, impo, sig) as normal when sending a job to plate I select the job, signature & choose the device setup...

Hi there Guys, Im sorry about this question, im a bit lost. I havent been priveliged with proper training on preps, im learning via manuals :( On the Bottom of plates you have a identifier of Cyan (in cyan) Magenta (in magenta) Yellow (in Yellow) Black in Black and any PMS in the PMS colour...

HI there guys, We have just purchased Preps and trying to get it running. We have the Device set up to the CTP Plate Size of 730 x 600 with CTP PPD installed and when making templates using a standard sheet size if 650 x 455. 14mm paper grip, where do you put in plate grip... (55mm) to...

Hi there Guys, A couple of little questions about pistops preflighting functions. 1. Is it possible to build separate preflights for Eg. A4's, A3's, A2's, custom sizes etc... We already have typical CMYK preflight profile sorted, but not for custom preflights for Incorrect page sizes... (I...

Hi there guys, Adding custom PPD's in Layout programs is a common thing eg. Indesign etc... But is it possible to load a PPD into Acrobat Pro. We are using a postscript/OPI workflow and have a workflow specific PPD that we must use for postscript creation... But most of the files we receive...

Hi there guys, I have a very unusual case (well one i have never seen before anyway)... We are using Harlequin 7.1r1 Genesis Release (Rasterise IT) and we send proofs to our 7800 A2 Epson and plates (1BIT TIFS) to Escher Grad Cobalt. For the last 2years proofs and plates match because they...

Hi there guys, I have a very strange issue regarding Indesign CS3, we purchased the complete suite about a month ago and all programs ran fine, until now. When I try and launch Inddy CS3 I get an error. 'Cannot load Adobe InDesign CS3 because it requires JavaScript. Please install the...

Hi there guys, We are running Acrobat Professional 7 with Pitsop 7.22 on my Mac. Working like a dream. I have just installed Acrobat Professional 9 onto my Mac, can I install the same Pitstop 7.22 into the Acrobat version 9? So when I launch acrobat 7 or 9 the same copy of Pistop will launch...