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Colleen Shannon
MemberCan you take a screen shot in InDesign with your Swatches Pallette? Make sure you are adding unnamed colors, and converting all Spot Colors to Process. (Assuming this is a process job). Otherwise, you should check to see if there are any Overprint settings of vector art in both InDesign and Illustrator (both with Selection and Direct Selection tool).
Otherwise, it could be a PostScript error. PDFs should be saved with x1a standard. Raster effects, especially gradients and spot colors can cause big printing problems.
Did your printer offer a printed proof? It’s not normal to print 5,000 copies without a customer-approved proof.
MemberI’m not sure if you tried this, but:
Pages-> right click ->Master Page Options: Change from 2 pages to 1
MemberNot sure if this will help, but try toggling:
Preferences->Links->Preserve Image Dimensions When Relinking
I tend to use the Links Window to replace images instead of Place.
Member• Are you Placing/Linking to your images? (You should not embed them by copying/pasting, etc.) If you are copying/pasting (embedding) a lot of vector artwork, that can slow things down too.
• Turn off View->Overprint Preview until you need it
• Try saving images as 300 dpi JPEGs (no compression) or flattened TIFs
• Occasionally, do Save As in InDesign, which will lower the file size, or Export to .idml and open as a new .indd file
• Is this for print or digital use only? For print, color photos should be CMYK, digital: RGB (smaller file size)
May 20, 2015 at 11:42 pm in reply to: When creating a calendar using tables, how do you move the days forward/backward #75526MemberIf you haven’t gotten too far into it:
https://calendarwizard.sourceforge.net/
Everything has Styles, which makes it easy to customize.Otherwise, I used to copy/paste cells, then copy entire tables for months that start on the same day (adjust the last days).
You can still do the Tab thing, and Table->Convert Text to Table (or Table to Text)
Or maybe someone will have a better idea after me….
MemberTry selecting all or some of the text, then Window->Type->Character->flyout menu->No Break
If No Break is checked, uncheck it.
MemberYou can take it a step further, (save a copy of your live text version first), then select text and create outlines, so now it’s artwork and won’t have the text frame around it.
Type->Create Outlines
If it makes sense, you can do Pathfinder->Subtract for the type to be transparent.
I recommend saving your logo as a PDF also, which you may need down the line.
MemberI am going to be of no help here, just a sympathetic ear. I work at a print shop and used PageFlex years ago; the font issues are truly a pain. It’s the weekend, but I’ll ask my co-worker on Monday if he has any ideas.
MemberSounds like you need to do a clipping path around all 3 bottles, and/or do the drop shadows in Photoshop instead.
Member1. Find all Frames of your given size. Apply an Object Style to them.
2. Find all Text Frames of other Styles, [None] and [Basic Text Frame]My best guess!
MemberThe Paragraph Style will have that centre-aligned tab, but you need to add a tab for each entry. It’s not automated, but you can Find/Replace (in Story) so each Paragraph Return has a Tab after it.
Find: ^p
Replace with: ^p^tThen replace all double Tabs: (to clean up if you already have tabs in there.
Find: ^t^t
Replace with: ^tNot sure how much this helps your project. The table idea may work better, or using the Convert Text to Table/Table to Text option, you can add a Tab to the first column, then convert back to Text.
MemberA few things to check:
1. Convert all Spot colors to process (spot colors and raster effects (such as transparency) do not play well together)
2. Check Overprint on the tree, both with the Select and Direction tool in InDesign and Illustrator (turn it off)
3. Does the artwork really need to be transparent or are you using Transparency to lighten it? Using Transparency is problematic in printing; don’t use it unless you have to.
4. If you are exporting to PDF, use PDF/X-1ag’luck
MemberSet a Center Tab for the page numbers, and a Left Tab for the page description.
MemberI agree you need to be clear that this is a production job. Are you planning to print it locally? Print shops are a good source of prepress production talent. Also, you need to be clear on ownership of the final design/files. It sounds like you will want the InDesign files, so you have to make that very clear up front. (Industry standard is that a designer owns the InDesign files and gives the client PDF files which are to be used only for a specific quantity/purpose.)
MemberClick Bleed Marks when you print or export a PDF from InDesign. Printer’s marks, such as Crop/Bleed should not be inside the document. (If you are sending to a printer, they will likely use the bounding box information in the PDF to align, not the crop marks.)
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