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Bob Rubey
MemberSo, here's the story…
After wanting to implement a DAM system for many years, early last summer my employer, shortly after contracting with a network management company after our long-time net admin moved away, had them install a DAM system. The aforementioned net admin believed them to be more trouble than they are worth, and while my own view was somewhat colored by his perceptions, I hoped for the best.
We began with a SharePoint system, and we ran into problem after problem. Even when it was somewhat operational, I never liked that images needed to go to one section and other type of files needed to go to another section. It was confusing.
And so it went till winter when it was decided to scrap everything and start fresh with the Alfresco Community DAM (open source). We've also had some issues with it but all but one have been resolved. On the plus side, it's pretty intuitive. What it lacks, however, is a lightbox function. Plus it's not all that pretty to look at.
So, it's almost a year later, and we're still not at 100%. Somewhere in there some hardware issues were also discovered, and that wasn't helping anything. All this would probably bring a smirk to the face of the former net admin.
The system I wish we would have discovered earlier is Widen. I have absolutely no experience with it other than watching their videos, but one of our customers uses it and the only complaint they have had is not having the monthly reports e-mailed to them.
Yes, the network management company is still under contract. Shortly after signing us, they hired a sharp guy with Mac experience, something they were lacking, and he's not only been responsive but proactive.
I wish you much luck on finding a good DAM system and not a damn system.
MemberPlease tell us what “few people see”.
Tim,
I'm just saying that unless you're somehow involved in the production of a printed piece, you're unlikely to ever see the crop marks, so why get preoccupied with them?
And I'll have to respectfully disagree with you regarding the print settings. Yes, you can get somewhat close as I indicated in an earlier post, but neelarung was trying to achieve something very specific.
Without the ability to adjust the offset and length of the bleed marks—which are longer than the trim marks—I don't believe it can be done with InDesign's default installation. Give it a try.
There is an old post about customizing the MRK file definition in CS3, but it's not something I'd want to tackle: https://creativepro.com/cre…..design.php
Bob
MemberIf you're importing/placing, ID should import spot colors but not special CMYK mixes. I'm assuming you're using AI, and if you want the entire swatch panel (except gradients and patterns), you can export an .ase (Adobe Swatch Exchange) file from AI and import it into ID. In both cases, the drop-downs from the Swatches panels will get you what you need.
Remember you can import native AI files.
Welcome to the InDesign community.
MemberYou are welcome.
MemberWell, unless there's some kind of challenge involved, I think you're preoccupied with something few people see. But, I've been there, and I imagine many other members have been as well.
And there is a solution as this Flash video will show: https://www.screencast.com/t/o0CiZbUw
It's done is CS5, but I believe CS3 had the script; it's been around a while.
MemberIt looks like you're trying to emulate the marks of QuarkXPress, and InDesign simply doesn't work that way. I don't even bother with the bleed marks from InDesign.
That being said, with a 3 mm bleed and an offset of 4.05 mm, you'll get a close approximation.
MemberThanks Eugene
The steps just seemed to come to me, the devil was in the details. There is an old 2009 thread about vertical page numbers on the Adobe Forums which basically had all the pieces, but I don't think I had seen that till I did a Google search this morning.
So, perhaps somewhere….
MemberOkay, that was a brain teaser, but it's possible.
First, visually it's easier to set up on a document page then copy it to the masters.
Start by drawing a short vertical line (2 or 3 picas, it can be adjusted later) from top to bottom, but not bottom to top.
Next, using the Type on Path tool, and with the text I-beam on the right side of the line/path, insert the page marker. Unlike Illustrator (and I'm not entirely sure about this), it appears text can't be dragged from one side of the path to the other, and if you draw the line bottom to top, 100 will become 001.
Then, select the text and choose Justify All Lines as your text alignment.
Finally, with the text still selected, choose Type on a Path>Options from the Type menu and select the Stair Step effect.
Now you can tweak it a bit by adjusting the vertical line then cut and paste it to the masters.
MemberYou might want to watch this one as well.
MemberTake a look at the Scale Graphics Script from in-tools.com, it may do the job: https://in-tools.com/article/sc…..cs-script/
MemberI'm with mayoor. To my understanding, PDFx1a (v1.3) is basically a “lowest common denominator” approach that most printers should be able to handle. And in the PostScript and distill method, the act of PostScripting in itself does the flattening, so it doesn't really matter what PDF version you distill to, it's never going to be any better than a PDFx1a.
What inkspot may not be doing, and he can correct me if I'm wrong, is checking the transparency flattening before exporting to PDF to eliminate possible problems. I'm not going to go into details because Michael Murphy has a good video on the subject: https://www.theindesigner.com/p…..ner_23.mp4
The video is from 2006, but the Flattener Preview really hasn't changed much through the versions.
January 28, 2012 at 4:43 am in reply to: What?s the shortcut key to zoom in on selective objects in CS5? #61566MemberCtrl+
Control key and the plus sign without shift; I guess it's really Ctrl=, but Ctrl+ is easier to remember.
Ctrl- will zoom out.
MemberFrederick:
I was able to recreate your problem without much effort in CS5 (Win). The after a bit of Googling, I found this piece of information in the CS4 Help:
Wrapping text around anchored objects
If you apply text wrap to an anchored object, the wrap affects the lines of text in the story that follow the anchor marker. However, the wrap doesn’t affect the line of text that includes the anchor marker or any lines before it.
When you paste an object as an inline object, its text wrap boundaries are preserved.
Sure enough, when I changed the anchor position (I inserted before the text flow), the problem resolved itself. Hope this helps.
Bob
MemberFirst, echoing David's thoughts, why not AI?
Anyway, if you rotate the tongue elements back to zero, the entire image will scale. Problem solved? Not exactly. You already know that other elements are rotated.
But there's something else of note: The graphic, as is, can be resized… as long as you make it larger.
So I made an assumption that because of both the small size and rotation of the tongue elements that InDesign is unable to reduce the entire graphic in size and thus generated an error. To test, I increased the size of only the two elements that make up the tongue. And sure enough, I was then was able to reduce the entire graphic.
So, I guess I would look for something small and rotated on other problem graphics and see if that is indeed the cause of the errors.
BTW, I really like your illustration. (And the horse doesn't look too bad with a slightly larger tongue.)
Bob
MemberShawn:
Yes, you can span your image across the three pages or panels. And into the bleed area as well, if desired. As long as you export or print each three-page setup as a spread, you're golden.
Bob
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