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MemberHey David,
Thanks a lot. That simple mental leap of copying it to photoshop hadn’t occurred to me!
And yes, wireframing exercises are a blast in Indesign. I used to do it in Illustrator, but that was an utterly frustrating experience with huge files and misbehaving text bits.
May 5, 2016 at 2:34 am in reply to: How do they do it? Max characters in a document template. #84620MemberThanks for this recommendation, I will consider it!
MemberYou can’t trust me to give a definitive answer, because I am simply not 100% sure, but: I wouldn’t worry about it. First: you did not design the font, hence you are not violating copyright rules if you use the font according to its license. Chances are the font author considered the copyright issue.
Secondly: there is such a thing as fair use of copyrighted material. If something similar to the source work is used for parody or a nod to it’s source, without misusing the copyright, no judge will rule in favor of the original author. Misuse is something like: making a game, calling it ‘pacboy’ and slap a similar font on it as pacman.
MemberHuh…interesting post for sure.
And yes, I would’ve preferred to use the vector of the logo, but because there was an item in the Ai file which colours that couldn’t be edited, I had no choice but to raster it in Ps. It was an anomaly really, I usually don’t run into these things. :)
MemberTried, but no difference
MemberNo David, the graphic was pasted from Ai to Ps, then rasterized. The working doc resolution was set at 300dpi, saved that to a Ps PDF. I then placed it in Id. This resulted in the ‘flat tire’ for the circle. Note: I ditched this file and don’t really intend to recreate it.
Then the second try, I made a PSD of the logo, without the circle that got me the flat tire, only kept the lettering of the logo. When placed, it looks ok-ish, but surely not as sharp as when viewed in Ps. I printed this, and the print pretty much showed what I saw on screen (although the quality is acceptable).
This just leads me to believe that Id doesn’t handle placed PSD’s with a transparent background that well for items that usually need a vector format (e.g. logos). Does this sound as a common issue?
MemberWow, just wow…I found out where the issue comes from. Be ready to ROFL, the tab between footnote number and text had a override: font was 2pt bigger with auto leading. OMG, sorry for wasting your time. I was selecting either the footnote number or text to check the para rules, didn’t occur to me to select the whole thing.
MemberWow, I feel kind of stupid now…When I enter a swatch in Ai, RGB, hex or CMYK, it gives you the values for each counterpart, which look dead on when you change the document colour mode. To hell with that online tool!
MemberThanks for the response.
First, my display performance is always set on high.
The logo was taken from an AI file and was pasted into PS to edit the colours. See, there was an item with a gradient in the AI file that said something like ‘not native to this application’ or something. So instead of bothering with AI to switch the colours of that item, I put it in PS. But besides this, the circle part of the logo was a vector to begin with, pasted into a 300dpi rasterized file, so the PS PDF was surely not a low res graphic.
The PS file looks absolutely crisp, and sort of crisp in ID.
I printed the ID exported PDF, with an updated logo (a placed 300dpi PSD) and it looks ok-ish, not as sharp as I would have liked.
I am wondering now, the PSD and PS PDF both had transparent backgrounds. Could it be that this is causing the jaggyness and flat tires?
MemberNo space before or after in the para style. When testing it actually doesn’t even matter wether there is para spacing on the style, the footnote is restrained to the baseline I mentioned earlier, meaning that the next footnote does not react to settings of the one before it.
MemberI went ahead an bought myself a Spyder5. My monitor is now calibrated with express settings, just to try it out. I might go into deeper parameters later.
I intend to go into colour management soon and David already suggested me his Lynda.com tutorial in another thread. However, at the moment there is this burning question: I googled ‘match rgb to cmyk’ and it lead me to this website where I can put in rgb values and it calculates cmyk percentages for it. I made swatches with both sets of values but they didn’t match up. I know RGB has a wider gamut range than cmyk (am I saying this right?) so possibly there is no vivid counterpart in cmyk for the colour I am trying to recreate. I was wondering though, (assuming that website’s calculator is spot on), should the cmyk counterpart of an RGB value indeed look the same on my screen?
The reason I ask, is because I want to know wether it makes sense to put two swatches, RGB and CMYK next to eachother in an ID file and try to make them look identical.
MemberThanks David, I think I really need to finally take some time checking out how this whole colour thing works exactly. I’ve always been a bit (too) pragmatic about it.
About the Apple RGB, I just found this out: I switched the working space to Apple RGB this morning for both apps to see if I can get the same results and I did not. In fact AI was set to monitor RGB (and RGB in doc colour mode) and ID was in Apple RGB. I just assume these were my default modes, I can’t recall ever changing this.
I changed the settings in both apps to sRGB and voila, I see the same tints on both apps. Cool! But here’s the thing: I set both apps back to Apple RGB and turned colour management policies off and the tint difference is there. I didnt touch the management policies off this morning. Unless I am missing something, I can only conclude that ID handles Apple RGB setting differently than AI…I mean, the colour settings are exactly the same as far as I know.
I am still quite curious what is going on exactly in this case, but I am very happy that setting it to sRGB solves the issue. It all looks so vibrant in ID now :)
I still want to butt in a little bit into Ari’s latest comment. You’re confusing me. I mean, ID has working spaces for RGB and CMYK on at the same time. You dont choose either one. Only AI (or PS, whatever) lets you work in either RGB or CMYK mode. Am I wrong? It’s just that I mostly use RGB for all content (vectors, font colours etc), because my main publishing platform is digital. My organisation’s style colours are RGB and the supplied CMYK counterparts from the initial style designers were kind of bad. Like I said, I’m pragmatic and the digital printing work just nailed it really.
MemberI appreciate your concern, but it’s a bit besides the point. I often have proofs printed, so it’s my problem how it comes out;)
Now I’m asking about the colour difference between Illustrator and Indesign and how to have them both export RGB docs with the same colour tint.
MemberThanks…it wasn’t as cumbersome as I thought to do it this way.
MemberClever!
Thanks, I will apply this strategy.
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