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    resizing down, adjusting levels best practice

    Thanks Rick and Jm that's really helpful, So to clarify, it isn't a problem to have a complete white (paper) value and a complete black value in one colour work? My printer's been telling me that it starts to 'fill-in' if it gets too much black and that you can get a 'jagged edge' (where the...
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    resizing down, adjusting levels best practice

    G'day guys, I have 3 fairly newbie questions about photoshop that I definately should know by now, if anyone can help out I would be very grateful. 1. I want to resize down an image that is at 300dpi from about 134mm to 120mm: is it better to resample so I end up with an image that is still...
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    Do 16-bit grayscale scans pose problems for offset printing?

    G'day, I'm scanning a lot of grayscale pictures and the scanner gives me the option of using 8-bit or 16-bit with the warning that some applications don't support 8-bit grayscale. This made me think that perhaps images of this depth might make problems for the printers. Do you think this...
  4. NickGross

    My Keyboard Shortcuts Aren't Working...

    Sometimes this happens to me, usually I just restart things like the app. first, then the OS next and if all esle fails you could always dump your preferences, that seems to cure anything, if only it would enable me to design more quickly... Someone else might have a better solution, but this...
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    indesign > ps > distiller > pdf

    thanks again guys, Jimoblak, I'm printing to .ps and distilling it because accord. to this printer that's what works for her when i give her my problem PDFs. what is the difference between exporting to PDF and printing to PDF? You will have to forgive my ignorance :) Jmgalvin, yeah I...
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    indesign > ps > distiller > pdf

    G'day again, No, i tried it again with the PPD set to adobe PDF 7.0 and still distiller doesn't do anything with the file except sit it in the problem area. When I double click on the file, it says there is an error trying to read the log file, when I try and edit the PDF settings it says...
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    indesign > ps > distiller > pdf

    Yeah thanks heaps! The standard setting was a mistake, it must have been the default on distiller but i realise how to change it...thanks no I wouldn't send an RGB standard PDF out! sorry for that red herring! :) thanks jmgalvin, yeah I think the real problem might be the PPD i'm selecting in...
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    indesign > ps > distiller > pdf

    G'day guys, i did a search for this topic on this site but found nothing. so if you could help me I would be very appreciative. i have a printer who is using a level 2 rip and always has problems with finding my embedded font files in the pdfs i give her. She has found that if she saves them to...
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    grayscale multiplied over a spot colour in a 2 colour job

    thanks heaps apepp, that was really helpful, I just got the proofs back and sure enough, everything looks fine which is a relief, for once nothing needed to be changed on the journal; it was a pleasure, no spelling mistakes, no font size problems, no nothing, fantastic! Just to confirm, if I...
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    grayscale multiplied over a spot colour in a 2 colour job

    Thanks Carlow and Andrew, That's really helpful information thanks a lot, so as I understand it, things are cool with this method and PDF > press can handle multiply with spot colours? I was nervous because once I multiplied a spot over a grayscale tiff (the opposite to what I'm doing now)...
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    grayscale multiplied over a spot colour in a 2 colour job

    G'day, Wow, first post, before posting this I tried to check to see if anybody else had posted something similar but I couldn't find anything similar, so my apologies if this all sounds boring and If anyone could help me with my problem I would be very grateful. OK so I'm producing a two...
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