Recent content by jamesmurphy

help... we have just done out studio updates to 10.5.5 and now when we print from some of our work stations all run-outs seem to be squashed! Any ideas? We are running CS2 and up till now have never experienced this..

Help! We have just made the transition from CS2 to CS3 and have a problem! Yesterday I launched an image placed InDesign from the links pallet. Made an amend in photoshop and when I went to update the link back in InDesign it said "Can not place this file, no filter found for requested...

I'm looking for an image management solution! We currently store all our images (Hi-Res Tifs) on a large 100GB Image Server. We then link all our work stations to this server so that when placing images in InDesign files they are always the Hi-Res files. However, our image server is running...

Hi guys, We are going to be making the transition from CS2 to CS3 next week and I wonder if anyone can give me a heads up on some of the problems I am going to come up against? We have four G5 towers in the studio running OSX 10.4.10 and one Mac Pro running 10.5.2. We are running Extensis...

Nope, still no joy! There is some text on the artwork with drop-shaddows that is opening up in photoshop fine, however the plced illustrator logos are causing the problem! The must be some setting in illustrator maybe? To confirm, yes all artwork is created in InDesign. And we get the same...

Hi all, We are dragging a PDF into Photoshop as we need to supply a hi-res jpeg for print. However, we are getting white boxes around the elements of the artwork that has drop shaddows. The same effect can be replicated in Acrobat when viewing the ODF by turning the 'Overprint Preview' off. Oh...

Please can someone tell me how to do a word count in InDesign without having to manually sellect every text box... We need to do a 'WC' on a document which is split into 13-sections each containing approx 40-pages.. Eeeek! Thanks ; )

I need to purchase 'Zurich Small Bold' in OpenType formate, however have had no luck locating it for sale.. I'm guessing this is beacause it is a system fornt... Any ideas anyone? J.

I am supplying some Certified PDFs to a printer using Endfocus Pitstop. However the Job we are working with is CMYK + 2 SPOT (OVERPRINT BLACK & 877 SILVER). However the only profile I can find to run is 'CMYK + 1 SPOT', does anyone know where I can find the required profile? Thanks!

Thank you SO much for your assistance on this! I think you are 100% correct with what you are suggesting.. Please see the below email from the printer.. ....... The requested profiles and job options are available at http://www.enfocus.com/ <http://www.enfocus.com/> The steps to process the...

My printer has requested Certified PDFs which I thought was the PDFX1a setting from InDesign? However I'm guessing this is not the case, can anyone shed some light on how I can create a Certified PDF from InDesign? Thanks!

Can anyone help me.. I'm using a Russian font (OpiumNew) in a piece of Russian design which is setup in InDesign CS2. However when I create a PDF using the InDesign print preset option some of the Russian font charectors are not being displayed in the PDF. (Trust me, this can be tough to spot...

Hi all, I would be very greatful for any imput on the below subject. Sorry if I've not used the correct terms, I'm more of a creative than a techno! Our client has given us a '.xml' file which contains a load of product specs we need to imput into a large brochure. The XML file is generated...

I have had this problem a few times. It can we one of two things; • You have a place eps (illustrator file) which contains the colours in the palette. Delete these colours and update the link in ID. The colours should go away. • The ID file is corrupt. Copy the content of a page into a new...

Our studio produces a variety of ads for a large boat manufacturer, however these ads are taking up more and more time to put through as we are now producing around 5/10 a day. Now this isn't to much of a hassle for the Brand awareness ads which just have to be sized and the correct contact...