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Eliox, this is normal in Illustrator (type colour). Notice that the selection tool and the type tool can show two different colour attributes. It has to do with the fact that type can have different attributes depending on whether you are selecting all the type as an object with a selection...

I agree with the MacPro idea. The imacs seem like they share too many aspects with laptops to be the best choice for production.

The option under Units & Display Performance has the option for faster updates to the display in CS4, but I see that option is missing in CS5.

When working for Schawk an IT guy told me that there was a corporate mandate to staff a production shop with a specific ratio of IT help vs. number of workstations. For mac it was 1 to 20 machines, and for windows it was 1 to 5 machines. Why? The answer was printing in general (lasers, etc.)...

We haven't got the R6 on our Macs yet, but it looks great with exporting directly to normalized pdf. Now that Backstage isn't needed to normalize the epf, how are the images handled? Does the exported pdf use linked Photoshop images now, instead of the Esko CTs? Are there options when exporting...

Thanks for that explanation. I did notice the difference with snapping and CS4 today. At first I thought it wasn't working at all, being used to CS3, but then it did what you said, especially after I turned up the snap distance to 8 (max).

I was impressed with the powerful Artboards feature in CS4. Resizing, centering artwork, and multiple artboards are easily done. I am wondering how Esko epf export will handle the increased options available. Any response to this change? Can we have more than one epf page size exported from...

Try google images female face model hi res - Google Images

I find that the stacking or layering order makes a difference too. By moving what you want to snap to, below what you are moving, sometimes makes a difference, along with zooming in. I also have tried to relax about many aspects of assembly, and eyeball things where I can.:D

We are using the Visualizer now, and it's becoming super popular with a full time shift for it already!

When viewing one bit tiffs (after preparing them) in BSV when I hit i for info, I only get the info on one of the separations, the one that is selected in the Pilot window. Is there a way to get a summary of info on all of the separations, or do I have to select and hit info one at a time like I...

Any printed documentation I can print out?:)

I tried printing from Illust to our colour copier with a rip attached to it, and it does both print with overprints, and without overprints, depending on that setting under advanced for showing overprinting, so ours works as it should. Since yours isn't working normally, I would suggest...

The "best" way is to manually apply traps (overprints) to the objects as they are created. Then, if the objects are moved, etc., the traps will be retained, eliminating the need for retrapping the file. This usually is the best policy for files that may be reused and picked up again and again...

If you open the document, Illustrator will warn you if the doc is an older version. It will give you the option to lock the text as it is, or to let it reflow to the current version of Illustrator. Of course, there is no guarantee of text looking the same as on the original without comparing...

I was using Spotlight (dictionary) on my Mac.:)

Actually that is a "trick" I have used in the past. To combine a difficult to print Illustrator file into a photoshop background, you can generate spot color single color pdfs to import into photoshop. There you can define them as spot colors and re-combine into one raster file. I like what...

Well, Photoshop on my screen says "Rasterizing File" when I open a composite pdf, so that's pretty clear what's happening. You get a chance to pick your color space, RGB, or CMYK, your choice, no spot colors, typical of Photoshop. If you can produce a separated pdf from your file, then that can...

It looks to me like Adobe is trying to make the "opacity mask" feature from CS3 more accessible. When encountering these blends, where one end is transparent, and the other end is opaque, it took me quite a while to figure out how they did it. There was a little dashed underline in the...

Aha, thanks for the heads up! It helps to know when I may have this problem, and your answer explains it. I'm looking forward to r6, sounds awesome. Will it support native Illust files, or a pdf saved out of Illust...?