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Adobe InDesign : printer presets
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I'm not quite sure I understand. Have you set up Print presets already in the Print presets dialogue (File menu).
If you just want to rearrange them or give them a new folder. Open the print presets window. Select any preset and hit save. You can than save it to a new folder and you can repeat that as necessary. To use any preset you saved, open the print presets dialogue and hit Load. Navigate to the filder with your saved presets and load it.
Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4
If you just want to rearrange them or give them a new folder. Open the print presets window. Select any preset and hit save. You can than save it to a new folder and you can repeat that as necessary. To use any preset you saved, open the print presets dialogue and hit Load. Navigate to the filder with your saved presets and load it.
Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4
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I have about a dozen presets already created, but since we have 8 output devices, I'd like closer to 40 presets divided/seperated by machine. Since I use 5-6 machines regularly throughout the day, closing and opening saved presets almost seems like more work.
What I'm hoping to discover is a way to have all 40 presets available at all times, but divided up by machine and maybe divided further than that* by multiple sub-menus.
* for example, one direct-to-plate machine serves both our two-color and four-color presses which require different settings (eg. line screens, plate length, etc.) That one machine could utilize more than a dozen presets based on which press, trapping, orientation, and other criteria.
Thanks JM and I hope I clarified my goals.
What I'm hoping to discover is a way to have all 40 presets available at all times, but divided up by machine and maybe divided further than that* by multiple sub-menus.
* for example, one direct-to-plate machine serves both our two-color and four-color presses which require different settings (eg. line screens, plate length, etc.) That one machine could utilize more than a dozen presets based on which press, trapping, orientation, and other criteria.
Thanks JM and I hope I clarified my goals.
I think you can do that - except submenus - by editing your presets and then saving to a new folder - as described earlier. They'll all have the extension ".prst".
Example; "direct to palate 2color.prst" and "direct to plate 4color.prst".
Once you have all your presets in that new folder, you can rearrange them as you please, maybe by just adding 01, 02, etc to the befinning of the name if that's easiest.
Then open the ID print presets dialogue and "load" and insert the presets in teh order you like. Once you're happy you can delete any earlier preint presets in the preset dialogue.
I have bunch of different print to postscript presets in my machine for pdf distilling (different ad requirements for different publications). I arranged them by publication name and then "loaded" them into presets.
Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4
Example; "direct to palate 2color.prst" and "direct to plate 4color.prst".
Once you have all your presets in that new folder, you can rearrange them as you please, maybe by just adding 01, 02, etc to the befinning of the name if that's easiest.
Then open the ID print presets dialogue and "load" and insert the presets in teh order you like. Once you're happy you can delete any earlier preint presets in the preset dialogue.
I have bunch of different print to postscript presets in my machine for pdf distilling (different ad requirements for different publications). I arranged them by publication name and then "loaded" them into presets.
Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4
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