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MemberRosewood Std is an Adobe commercial font. There are fakes on the Internet or maybe just renamed Adobe fonts. Nedless to say that using them is likely illegal.
RegardsMemberAndrew, your question was replied already, but there is another issue to consider:
Whereas you can create a low resolution PDF (72 or 96 dpi) for the pages that will be visualized on the laptop’s screen, the same file will print poorly on, say, a desktop printer. For that you would need a 300 dpi PDF.
Since I cannot visualize your project this is just a kick in the dark: to overcome such problem, the page(s) on the laptop should carry a link for downloading a 300 dpi PDF.
Tom
Further thought: remember that the American standard for printing paper is not the same as that in Europe (A4, A3, etc.) So if your public for printing is American you should choose letter size instead of A4.November 12, 2014 at 2:16 pm in reply to: Why for the Love of G*D, does indeisgn take SO LONG to copy!! #71607MemberPete, I wonder if your machine uses Windows 7 or 8 in 64 bits version. If so that explains much of IDs very poor performance. CS 5.5 and 6 were still 32 bits softwares and they perform poorly running under a 64 bits system. CC has now a 64 bits version, should do a better job. One way to overcome this problem is to increase memory to at least 8 Gbytes (16 is better), but that would require a quite powerful machine (which can address memories above 4 Gbytes) which you may not have available.
On the other side, the times you mention seem absurdly high, so maybe you have some problem with your PC. Just a wild guess. Try to defrag your machine. Sometimes that helps.
Hope this helps
TomMemberRoswell (if this is the font you are looking for) is a commercial font by ITC.
The pack with three styles cost USD 87.
You will find fake Roswells on the internet. Here is one link:
https://www.urbanfonts.com/fonts/ROSWELL.htm
But, as you will notice, this font has nothing to do with ITC’s design.
BTW, an excellent site for finding free fonts is this:
https://www.free-fonts.com/MemberDavid, I finished a 900+ pages book and fixing vertical justification was a nightmare and _very_ time consuming.
Surely you can use the Object > Text Frame Options dialog box (although Ctrl B does the same). And sometimes paragraph spacing may help.
But “keep options” interfere (messing up vertical alignments and column breaks), sometimes in a very strange manner. If you check the forum’s threads we had this conversation before and I could not clarify why such a weird behavior happens.
As far as I can say the vertical justification feature in ID (CS6) does a poor job. Otherwise, why would In-Tools bother to offer their product to do the same thing (probably improved)?
In your opinion, what am I missing?
If you prefer, we can continue this discussion with a new thread in which I would explain the problems I faced.November 5, 2014 at 6:41 am in reply to: Adding "(text variable) Continued" header to first column of new page #71442MemberMaybe you should use a different master for BRAND that starts the page
MemberHello folks,
I don’t know if Adobe’s people read this forum. They certainly should because ID presents serious flaws or lacking of features that the company has not addressed yet. Surely, vertical justification and the behavior of keep options is one of them. As I wrote before, (technological) eon years ago Xerox’s Ventura Publisher has already satisfactorily solved this very important feature for books outlaying.
My 5 cents and rant for today :-)
Be well
TomMemberVertical justification is tricky and most of the time a nuisance.
Depending of your text and how many different paragraph styles it contains I would rather use top-aligned text boxes and then play with paragraph spacings and leading. Also the keep options should be set to all lines in paragraph. This will not produce a beautiful vertical alignment but will be much better the struggling with ID’s vertical justification blues.MemberBTW, your tutorial at Linda is super
ThanksMemberDavid, thank you for your quick reply and information. It just happens that I used a preset file downloaded from Lulu. Besides, all pages are b&w so why would ID convert the images to RGB?
In any case, meanwhile I also searched Lulu’s forum and found a full spec for B&W files exporting to PDF. Here is the link:
https://x2t.com/Lulu_b-w_presets.
I reconverted my file (pain_in_the_b_t with a 408 pages ID file) and will upload it to Lulu. Hopefully this will work.
Regards
TomMemberI am not sure if ID (CS6) would accept RGB images. Clearly the print on demand houses do not (such as CreateSpace and Lulu).
My logic says that all images should be converted to CMYK and .TIF because that is a Postscript RIP’s natural language.
Furthermore, with RGB transparency may not be preserved on most digital print devices.
So answering Ashley’s question, my recommendation would be the same as Dwayne gave, namely convert in Photoshop to CMYK and save in .TIF. This occupies more file space but you will be on the safe side when exporting to PDF for printing.
Even with grayscale images I do this (save in .TIF).
David, am I wrong or overdoing?
TomMemberThanks David, have ordered CS6… I’m a poor guy no CC for me :-)
MemberJohn please inform all data about this book – author, title, isbn, etc.
Thanks
TomMemberThank you Dwayne, what is PitStop?
Regards
TomOctober 18, 2014 at 11:48 am in reply to: Applying Stroke to Similar Types of Text Across a Document #71121MemberThis will not reply your question but give you a suggestion.
If you use a PC buy FontLab Studio. Creating alternate fonts sets, including italic and bold versions from a Regular/Roman set is a breeze.
It’s pricy but indispensable for anyone working professionally with ID -
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