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Good question. Our workflow is pure pdf but our customer services department uses a MIS system which requires images in jpeg format. It's enough to make one weep.

When opening PDFs in Photoshop the dialogue box's page options always defaults to Crop to Bounding Box. I want it to default to Media Box. How do I set the default? I'm sure there's a setting somewhere if one drills down a bit.

Thanks all for your replies. I've looked at both Esko and Global Graphics (HQ) websites. Esko do seem to have moved away from Harlequin in favour of FlexRip and Nexus. On GG's website the latest HQ RipServer is indeed 8.1. Time to get the chequebook out, by the sound of it. :)

We are currently revisiting our dot gain compensation for a H102SM. After printing linear plates we are finding lots of gain, none more so than in the highlights. Subsequently when we build a dot gain table in the workflow software anything less than 5% we barely hold. We are facing the prospect...

Thanks, Zombie.

To what? And why?

Just a legacy of what we've always done. Workflow started out donkeys' years ago as pre-separated postscript workflow.

We run two Esko Flowdrive workflows (v5.2) with Harlequin rips under the hood (don't know the version but I'm guessing quite old). We use pre-separated pdfs in our impositions, imposed using Preps. As a company, we have begun moving over to Illustrator CS4 from Freehand. We are finding however...

Sir, you are a genius. Many thanks.

It's kind of a legacy thing. Illustrator provided the shallowest learning curve (although maybe steeper than they'd care to admit) from Freehand. Those guys have always used a vector-based artwork package. Client-supplied art was almost always in Illustrator, necessitating migrating it to...

LOL, good one. Seriously, it's taken these dyed-in-the-wool Macromedia fetishists in the studio long enough to grasp the Illustrator nettle. It would take an obstacle of greater proportions than this to go to InDesign. But thanks, I take your point.

After years (decades?) of our in-house studio using Freehand, the art/prepress function is moving over to Adobe Illustrator. For every piece of art, we output black and white separations from a laser printer. Our art contains many specials (varnishes, opaque layers etc.) in addition to CMYK and...