About
James Wamser is a member of the Customer Education team at Walsworth providing training and support for its customers. James is an Adobe Certified Expert. He teaches InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop at Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) and is the event director of the annual Fall Color Festival, a fundraiser to support and maintain mountain bike trails at Kettle Moraine State Forest in Wisconsin.
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CreativePro Week 2025
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Articles
See all articlesWhat Your Printer Wishes You Knew
Your design is great! Your client loves it! But will it print as expected?
How to Avoid Print Problems with MathML in InDesign
How to use Adobe Acrobat to make sure math equations created in InDesign print in black ink only
A Script to Allow Bleeds on the Spine of InDesign Documents
Automate the process of separating pages in InDesign so they can bleed on all 4 sides
Converting 4-Color Printer’s Marks to Black with Acrobat
Use this quick fix to avoid creating unnecessary printing plates in PDFs exported from InDesign.
Print Versioning Workflows
James Wamser offers a guide to producing custom print products with black plate changes.
Database publishing, a lean approach with Pagination.com
Article presented by If you have dealt with data publishing projects, as I do, you most likely struggled with: preparing the data to get it in the exact, required format figuring how to create a library rich with information and logic merging together multiple batches of documents and their never-ending variations and updates. Maybe that’s […]
Live Preflight Tips for Publish Online
When creating InDesign documents for print, I’ve been recommending the use of Live Preflight since InDesign CS4, when the feature was introduced. So when I started making documents for Publish Online, naturally I created a custom Live Preflight Profile to check them as well. Here’s why. To Detect Overset Text and Other Common Text Errors First, I […]
How to Set Up Your Documents So That Your Printer Won’t Hate You
I work for a large commercial printing company (see my bio below for details) and I see a huge number of documents from a wide variety of designers, hobbyists, agencies, and more. Fortunately, just about everyone knows that embracing a PDF workflow can streamline the printing process, eliminating potential problems like missing fonts and images. […]