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  • November 25, 2009 at 10:51 pm in reply to: InDesign/Prepress Myths #53990
    David Blatner
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    You rarely need more than 1.5x your halftone screen frequency (assuming you're printing to a traditional halftone screen with regularly-space spots, like in a magazine or newspaper). If you're printing at 150 lpi (lines per inch) then you almost certainly do not need more than 225 ppi images.

    There's a huge difference in file size between 225 and 300, so it's useful to stay with the minimum required.

    Of course, if you import a 225 ppi image and scale it up to 110%, then you have only about 200 ppi effective resolution.

    November 25, 2009 at 9:58 pm in reply to: automatically split a document? #53988
    David Blatner
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    Oh yes, I remember Ben well! Great guy. If you're out there, Ben: Hi!

    November 25, 2009 at 9:56 pm in reply to: list of text anchors and hyperlink destination #53987
    David Blatner
    Keymaster

    You can sort of get a list of text anchors by choosing Hyperlinks Destinations Options from the Hyperlinks panel menu.

    November 25, 2009 at 9:27 pm in reply to: Avoid Costly Mistakes With An Enhanced InDesign Live Preflight ? YeShore 0.0.5 Public Beta #50845
    David Blatner
    Keymaster

    LOL, Kris. Perhaps we should be doing shendoku puzzles down there. Wink

    However, your comment made me sit up because you should not be seeing ANY math puzzles down there! Please see: https://creativepro.com/for…..this-forum

    November 25, 2009 at 9:23 pm in reply to: InDesign/Prepress Myths #53986
    David Blatner
    Keymaster

    I'm curious about what James said about #2… because that is true in some circumstances, notably when printing to a lower-resolution printer (like under 1200 dpi). Not everyone is outputting on high-res platesetters.

    But yes, there are so many myths out there. We just heard elsewhere on the forum about the old “don't use truetype” myth. That's been false for years.

    November 25, 2009 at 9:00 pm in reply to: Trying to find past article on transparency flattening #53984
    David Blatner
    Keymaster

    Not sure exactly what you're referring to, but this page talks about a problem when printing to an “office printer”:

    https://creativepro.com/eli…..ndrome.php

    But more importantly, if this is really being printed on a laser or inkjet printer (as final artwork) I would suggest setting the Transparency Blend Space to RGB, and then making sure the Output is set to RGB instead of CMYK. That might help, too.

    November 25, 2009 at 3:59 pm in reply to: automatically split a document? #53977
    David Blatner
    Keymaster

    Sheri, my first editor, Steve Roth, once taught me an important lesson: desktop publishers should always try to be as lazy as possible by automating everything — letting the computer do what we bought 'em for!

    You might also try Peter Kahrel's Batch_Convert

    and Zevrix BatchOutput.

    November 25, 2009 at 3:51 pm in reply to: InDesign/Prepress Myths #50937
    David Blatner
    Keymaster

    You rarely need more than 1.5x your halftone screen frequency (assuming you're printing to a traditional halftone screen with regularly-space spots, like in a magazine or newspaper). If you're printing at 150 lpi (lines per inch) then you almost certainly do not need more than 225 ppi images. 

    There's a huge difference in file size between 225 and 300, so it's useful to stay with the minimum required.

    Of course, if you import a 225 ppi image and scale it up to 110%, then you have only about 200 ppi effective resolution.

    November 25, 2009 at 2:58 pm in reply to: automatically split a document? #50916
    David Blatner
    Keymaster

    Oh yes, I remember Ben well! Great guy. If you're out there, Ben: Hi!

    November 25, 2009 at 2:56 pm in reply to: list of text anchors and hyperlink destination #50918
    David Blatner
    Keymaster

    You can sort of get a list of text anchors by choosing Hyperlinks Destinations Options from the Hyperlinks panel menu.

    November 25, 2009 at 2:23 pm in reply to: InDesign/Prepress Myths #50935
    David Blatner
    Keymaster

    I'm curious about what James said about #2… because that is true in some circumstances, notably when printing to a lower-resolution printer (like under 1200 dpi). Not everyone is outputting on high-res platesetters.

    But yes, there are so many myths out there. We just heard elsewhere on the forum about the old “don't use truetype” myth. That's been false for years.

    November 25, 2009 at 2:00 pm in reply to: Trying to find past article on transparency flattening #50932
    David Blatner
    Keymaster

    Not sure exactly what you're referring to, but this page talks about a problem when printing to an “office printer”:

    https://creativepro.com/eli…..ndrome.php

    But more importantly, if this is really being printed on a laser or inkjet printer (as final artwork) I would suggest setting the Transparency Blend Space to RGB, and then making sure the Output is set to RGB instead of CMYK. That might help, too.

    November 25, 2009 at 8:59 am in reply to: automatically split a document? #50913
    David Blatner
    Keymaster

    Sheri, my first editor, Steve Roth, once taught me an important lesson: desktop publishers should always try to be as lazy as possible by automating everything — letting the computer do what we bought 'em for! 

    You might also try Peter Kahrel's Batch_Convert

    and Zevrix BatchOutput.

    November 24, 2009 at 5:42 pm in reply to: Page Referencing Problem #53955
    David Blatner
    Keymaster

    We'll see if we can get someone from dtp tools over here to look at this. But in general, specific plug-in support questions should go to the plug-in developer. For example, check out dtponline.com

    November 24, 2009 at 4:19 pm in reply to: pagemaker to InDesign #53950
    David Blatner
    Keymaster

    I always found that it was particularly helpful to do a Save As from PageMaker before opening the file in InDesign… just to clean out gunk that might have accumulated. But remember that ID has very different type controls than PageMaker (especially things like “tracking/range kerning”) so some changes are inevitable.

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