see this thread:

https://forums.adobe.com/messag…..90#1322490

or if you don't want to read the whole thread, give this a bash

1) From Windows Control Panel, select Personlization. (You also can right-click the desktop to access this.)

2) From the left menu, select Adjust Font Size (DPI).

3) Select Default scale (96 DPI).

4) Ok to close the dialogue box.

5) Reboot the computer with the new setting.

one of my clients experienced the same thing. thought the worst until i saw this thread and it fixed it up right away.

I work in a printing company so i'm kind of biased here.

A book won't run out of batteries.

I can underline passages in a book without having to wash the screen off. Can also say the same with handwriting notes next to the text (e.g. adjusting ingredients or quantities of a recipe in a cookbook)

I can photocopy information out of a book at a library (pending copyright of course)

Can throw a book across the room and it won't break (might break something in its path though)

Can roll up a magazine and smack naughty kids or pets with them. Smacking a bad dog with an ipad might be a touch much.

in all seriousness, reading things on any computer was meant to be the end of books years ago. Nowadays a lot of software is shipped without printed manuals but, in many bookshops, there are printed manuals for that software – Real World Adobe InDesign CS4 is a great example. I think it says something about the help available electronically with the software…

In my workplace if manuals are misplaced/lost/stolen/not there to begin with, i'll find the manual by hook or by crook online and keep it on my HD, but if i need to consult that manual for whatever reason i'll usually print out the relevant pages i need. I couldn't see using something like Kindle or an iphone/ipad for this purpose.

Admittedly i don't read a lot of non-fiction, but it would be good to hear opinions from avid harry potter readers etc as to whether they'd prefer to read that as a printed book or on a kindle or other e-reader.

I do see the advantage for students using e-readers for text books though. I remember back in the day having a backpack weighed down with textbooks and having to lug them home day after day. An e-reader would certainly be a better option there.

I might add that my work hasn't had one customer ask about preparing their artwork for e-readers, and we print lots of books.

Its up to the paying customer as to what goes into the book. Many details can be written into the inprint page but the paying customer can say “i don't want that there, get rid of it”.

Can be politics too, depending on the size of the agency. Creative Directors are normally in charge of graphic designers. a GD may be given Carte Blanche in terms of design and allowed to put their name, others may be told by the CD that they will stick to a stylesheet and put the CD or the firm's name as a “created by”…

My workplace prints lots of books. From time to time we're acknowledged as the printer, likewise the design agency is acknowledged too, and rarely the designer personally. Sometimes though, the company listed on the inprint page which SAYS it printed the book ISN'T the company that printed the book – the printing was subcontracted, despite what the inprint page says. This happens a lot.

Depends on what the publisher puts in the inprint page ultimately. There's no reason that more information couldn't be in the inprint page, and with Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification, we've found authors devoting a few lines as to not only the kinds of paper used but also the source of that paper.

I also agree with Docbud where clients have foisted bad artwork into the factory and prepress has spent ages fixing, yet they have the nerve to claim the work was designed by them rather than thrown/dumped at the printer to fix… be nice to have the factory's name somewhere there. I must add that these are typically one-off publishers and isn't a representation of the industry as a whole.

But where does one draw the line and who really deserves the credit? Just like movie credits, book credits could go on ad infinitum e.g. Production Manager, Assistant to the Production Manager, Prepress, Prepress Supervisor, Platemaker, Printer, Print Supervisor, Print Offsider, Folder Operators, Bind Line Supervisor, Hand-work Operators, Despatcher, Courier Driver, Secretary etc. (and the book hasn't even left the factory yet!). There are a lot of people who really deserve credit for producing a book – its quite often a team effort of at least a dozen people.

There are dozens of off-the-shelf solutions now. I think the one with the lion's share of the market is XMPie. i found this link you might find useful:

https://www.veedeepee.com/w2p-s…..utions.htm

Adobe provide SDKs for people wishing to make their own using such things as indesign server, FLEX and XML.

Some W2P solutions are quite complicated such as https://www.offbeatguides.com/ or https://www.moonpig.com.au/ which appear to be custom-made solutions. the off-the-shelf ones tend to be aimed at printers mainly for overprinting stationery shells or for printing on indigo presses or colour copiers. The following deals with the latter.

I've had experience in using an off-the-shelf web-to-print solution for the last 18 months, which i won't name in case they don't like my opinion. This particular solution has been nothing but a headache in terms of setting up GUIs for customers, setting up the templates for their stationery, and general housekeeping.

On-screen, W2P is a great concept: lets an end-user set up their own stationery within brand guidelines and see a proof in real-time. They can then approve it without a contract proof and the printer receives a print-ready PDF fit for prepress. The payment is made prior to shipping the PDF and it all sounds very simple.

In real life however, the system easily falls down. Customers might see the demo and get excited, but when it comes time to actually ordering from it, they tend to forget their log-in to the site and then how to use the site, and it gets all too hard and they go back to what they're used to: over the phone orders, fax orders, email orders, etc. This is even moreso if several people are intended to use the site but have a medium-high staff turnover.

What i'd say to anyone considering W2P is:

* make sure it ties into the MIS. This way even if a customer isn't using the W2P solution, at least they can use it for their print management, warehousing and billing.

* make sure that setting up the GUIs for the customer is kept as simple as humanly possible. It will only take ONE hurdle before a customer gets startled and clicks on logout and then places an order another way.

* make sure that setting up the front-ends and templates for use by customers is easy to do and something that prepress staff can do easily, especially in the event of staff turnover.

* make sure its something that many of your customers WANT. if they're happy ordering the way they are, why change that? why put them through a potential ordeal if you don't have to?

* do the math first and make sure that even with a fraction of user uptake that the company will see an ROI. if 20 customers are keen, budget on 2 customers using it faithfully and properly.

hope that helps.

colly

My work uses solutions outside of Adobe InDesign and lets the RIP handle it. Our RIP is AGFA Apogee and it is bundled with the imposing software called Preps, which handles most impositions.

If imposing artwork for a printer, don't bother. The printer has imposition software but more importantly, knows how the artwork needs to be imposed for the specific sheet size and grain direction of the paper which is being printed on. Leave this to the pros.

One of my pet hates is receiving artwork for several business cards which are all ganged somewhere on an A4 page, because it means i have to break down that ganged artwork into single pages so it can be reimposed properly.

My work uses solutions outside of Adobe InDesign and lets the RIP handle it. Our RIP is AGFA Apogee and it is bundled with the imposing software called Preps, which handles most impositions.

If imposing artwork for a printer, don't bother. The printer has imposition software but more importantly, knows how the artwork needs to be imposed for the specific sheet size and grain direction of the paper which is being printed on. Leave this to the pros.

One of my pet hates is receiving artwork for several business cards which are all ganged somewhere on an A4 page, because it means i have to break down that ganged artwork into single pages so it can be reimposed properly.

i'm kinda with doc on this… there would be very few occasions where i'd have to shuffle lots of pictures or content over various spreads. that's not to say there's faults with the workflow, its just not a situation which crops up often with me.

however, may i suggest some workarounds? the shortcut to go to page is ctrl J. for example, a pic and some related text on p3 needs to be on p68. group and cut the selection, then ctrl J and type 68; and then paste onto the pasteboard. now, grab the content which needs to be swapped and cut that, ctrl J and go onto p3 and paste.

another workaround is to make a library. same scenario as above, but move the content into the library rather than copy it. ctrl J to the destination page and drag the content from the library. delete the item from the library and then grab the content to be moved into the library and ctrl J to the replacement page.

the third workaround would be to use snippets. that is, drag the content onto the mac/windows desktop. this will become a “snippet” which, when dragged into the destination page, comes back in as the content which it originally appeared.

i think what is making the process so difficult is the scrolling from spread to spread, especially if high-res preview is turned on with dozens of pictures. using the goto page shortcut ctrl J will make short work of scrolling. alternatively, a workflow which works for me is to have my pages palette open on the left hand side using the full height of the screen. i turn the placeholders off (or the pages palette takes forever to redraw and slows the machine down something fierce) but it allows me to see about 19-20 spreads all at once.

i hope this helps. if you do find a script which lets you swap content between spreads, please post the link as it would always be handy.

colly

yep. like it too. now just to get the estimators and planners to give us the right spine widths would be nice!