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  • January 27, 2010 at 7:32 pm in reply to: What’s your personal favourite typeface? #51626
    Tim Hughes
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    I like Helvetica Neue, neat and precise, and I am quite a fan of Syntax lately.

    Gill Sans also gets an honourable mention (with Joanna of course), and Garamond for a classic serif.

    I love DIN for its clean utilitarian look.

    Slap serifs such as Rockwell are great for headings and Officina sans and serif can work great on the page that serif version almost a slap serif but just a tad softer.

    December 8, 2009 at 9:46 am in reply to: Quality of effects Indesign/illustrator #54174
    Tim Hughes
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    Are you able to create a pdf that looks good?

    If so it may be the printer you are using that can't handle the transparency effects, is it a postscript device?

    The thing is you should be able to output beautiful clean effects laiden pages with both ID and Illustrator with the correct settings.

    December 8, 2009 at 2:46 am in reply to: Quality of effects Indesign/illustrator #51146
    Tim Hughes
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    Are you able to create a pdf that looks good?

    If so it may be the printer you are using that can't handle the transparency effects, is it a postscript device?

    The thing is you should be able to output beautiful clean effects laiden pages with both ID and Illustrator with the correct settings.

    December 4, 2009 at 8:44 am in reply to: Can I save a specified plate from an existing PDF #54133
    Tim Hughes
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    @Anne Marie This does sound interesting – I would love to know how!!!

    pdf fixups I am guessing

    December 4, 2009 at 1:44 am in reply to: Can I save a specified plate from an existing PDF #51096
    Tim Hughes
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    @Anne Marie This does sound interesting – I would love to know how!!!

    pdf fixups I am guessing

    December 3, 2009 at 4:11 pm in reply to: PDF Bloat with files updated from CS3 to CS4 #54104
    Tim Hughes
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    Open up that fat pdf in Acrobat, go to Document menu > Examine document

    Then with the metadata checked hit 'remove' and resave.

    This may well have cut the size dramatically.

    December 3, 2009 at 9:11 am in reply to: PDF Bloat with files updated from CS3 to CS4 #51109
    Tim Hughes
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    Open up that fat pdf in Acrobat, go to Document menu > Examine document

    Then with the metadata checked hit 'remove' and resave.

    This may well have cut the size dramatically.

    December 1, 2009 at 10:13 am in reply to: InDesign/Prepress Myths #54061
    Tim Hughes
    Member

    Ah yeah Bob, if they are untouched then I guess they will be fine, it definitely feels wrong to me though :)

    Yeah I would blame the rip and that should not be happening these days

    December 1, 2009 at 3:13 am in reply to: InDesign/Prepress Myths #50942
    Tim Hughes
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    Ah yeah Bob, if they are untouched then I guess they will be fine, it definitely feels wrong to me though :)

    Yeah I would blame the rip and that should not be happening these days

    November 30, 2009 at 1:30 pm in reply to: Convert Freehand MX to InDesign #54055
    Tim Hughes
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    @Adi, cool I only had to do this a few times when I was using CS2, good info cheers.

    November 30, 2009 at 12:49 pm in reply to: Truetype fonts and newspaper printing #54053
    Tim Hughes
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    @ Bob – Ka klunk – whhhhhhhhiiiiirrrrrrrrrrrr – ksh shsh ksh hshsh ks h kk

    holding breath hoping it will read!!

    November 30, 2009 at 12:43 pm in reply to: Convert Freehand MX to InDesign #54052
    Tim Hughes
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    As far as the sticky situation of opening Freehand files in Illustrator, export from Freehand as Freehand 9 and all will be well. See the Adobe site for the pdf detailing all points about Freehand to Illustrator migration.

    November 30, 2009 at 11:39 am in reply to: InDesign/Prepress Myths #54051
    Tim Hughes
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    While these days I am in agreement with you Bob, there was a time when jpegs would crash the rip at my Repro house (I know this to be true as they were across the corridor from me) as did infuriatingly eps files with jpeg compression on them (yeah try finding that file at output stage back in the day).

    I am not a fan of them these days as they are 'lossy' and when saved over and over by some people (arrgh!) can become quite damaged.

    True type fonts have given me problems over the years in pdf output.

    November 30, 2009 at 10:20 am in reply to: problems when optimizing an INDD-exported PDF #54049
    Tim Hughes
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    Straight off the bat I assume* this is a pdf for download from a website.

    Which setting are you using to make the pdf, smallest file?

    As a rule I tend to steer clear of truetype fonts and am now sticking to Opentype.

    Use examine pdf and delete metadata and see how much that reduces file size.

    *I tend not to assume things, as assumption is often the mother of all ****ups.

    November 30, 2009 at 9:38 am in reply to: Pasting copy from a PDF into Idd #54048
    Tim Hughes
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    Export to rtf or word, very easy, how can that be overkill?

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