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I'm having the same sort of problem --- up-to-date Adobe Acrobat DC, 11,420 PDFs which need to be converted into TIFs --- it's averaging 9 per minute --- I really need this done now, not late this afternoon (I started yesterday and the machine has been running overnight.

Anyone have any links to the stories about the last compositor at newspaper X Y or Z retiring? Those are a hoot (and sad, since the union sold out for sinecures rather than participating in the computer revolution and preserving their craft).

Very cool! This is something which I'm currently investigating --- could you share some details on this, or the PPD?

It's a pixel editor which was initial created for Tablet PCs, and which is often bundled w/ Wacom tablets. It's nice for drawing / sketching and has an fast, fluid interface. Not really useful directly for pre-press stuff, but there are SE (free) versions of it in both Windows and Apple App...

We built a couple of tools which use various forms of LaTeX to make press-ready .pdfs

My big problem w/ FlightCheck is that the interface (such as it is) doesn't cope well w/ multiple files --- by contrast, PreFlight Pro (now bought out by Adobe and built into InDesign) allowed one to have a document window into which one could drag files --- and if the app crashed, one could...

Claude72 wrote: >outputting EPS (including vector data) or PDF from Photoshop are 2 suitable ways >to output crisp vector text from Photoshop. Except that one gets no control over overprint, and minimal over the colour model, and the ``type'' comes in as bitmap images hidden away in clipping...

The problem is PhotoShop's colour controls for type and the interaction w/ that and the .eps and .pdf filters are so primitive that one can't get black type w/ overprinting, or spot colour type. The reason why people use PhotoShop for everything is the old saw about having a hammer and seeing...

Not a new technique, but kind of off-the-wall and not used that often (everyone I've told about it has always been surprised): - drag the PhotoShop .psd to Adobe Illustrator (be sure to choose the option to keep text editable, &c. --- you may need to re-arrange / merge the layers so that all...

My thanks to Cory Smith for the investigation. In this case, free is a demo (not a theft as I'd initially thought), so not useful for the intended use and one will have to... buy the program from the developers who've purchased it and are now supporting / improving on it (and can legally...

Fontographer is now owned by FontLab: Fontographer - Fontlab font software for the graphic designer. Create fonts for your own use with this versatile font editor. Though you'd likely want to get their TransType instead: Convert any font with TransType universal font converter Alternately...

See if an XTension which has a superset of that functionality will work --- Super Step and Repeat perhaps?

Quark 6 doesn't work well in 10.5 Quark 6 doesn't work well in 10.5 Take a look at the Quark forums for lots of complaints about this. In addition to the already mentioned issue: - often won't save a file successfully --- need to do a file Save as / export to a version 5 file to get a...