Re: One for the DTP / Adobe experts...

2004-05-07 Thread Mark Scholmann
- Original Message - From: Antony N. Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Thursday, 6 May 2004 21:56 Subject: Re: One for the DTP / Adobe experts... the export preset press uses acrobat 4 format. change this to version 5 (or later, if you are using CS

Re: One for the DTP / Adobe experts...

2004-05-07 Thread James Devenish
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Thu, May 06, 2004 at 09:56:35PM +0800, Antony N. Lord wrote: http://antonylord.dyndns.org/GeneralA3.pdf Views fine, Actually, there's definitely something fishy with that logo. Is it possible for you to make the logo (you say it was given to you as EPS?)

RE: One for the DTP / Adobe experts...

2004-05-07 Thread Oldham, Toby
: Antony N. Lord Sent: Thursday, 6 May 2004 9:56 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: One for the DTP / Adobe experts... To work around I open and rasterize it in Photoshop and save it as a single layer (transparent background) in PDF format. Yikes. Sorry, that should

RE: One for the DTP / Adobe experts...

2004-05-07 Thread Oldham, Toby
Sorry Antony, I when I say hidden, I mean you've got a wacky clipping mask issue. :) -- From: Antony N. Lord Sent: Thursday, 6 May 2004 9:56 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: One for the DTP / Adobe experts... the export preset press uses acrobat 4

Re: One for the DTP / Adobe experts...

2004-05-06 Thread Denise Williams
on 5/5/04 7:55 PM, Antony N. Lord at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I bit the bullet and bought the Adobe Design CS Premium suite to bring all my graphic design work up a notch. Almost all the printing companies I work with required PDF format files for output. Most of my layout work

Re: One for the DTP / Adobe experts...

2004-05-06 Thread Mark Scholmann
List wamug@wamug.org.au Sent: Thursday, 6 May 2004 11:02 Subject: Re: One for the DTP / Adobe experts... on 5/5/04 7:55 PM, Antony N. Lord at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I bit the bullet and bought the Adobe Design CS Premium suite to bring all my graphic design work up a notch. Almost

RE: One for the DTP / Adobe experts...

2004-05-06 Thread Oldham, Toby
after Acrobat's 'reduce file size' command. Weird. -- From: Mark Scholmann Sent: Thursday, 6 May 2004 11:20 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: One for the DTP / Adobe experts... I am not an InDesign expert (as only used once), but I believe you should

Re: One for the DTP / Adobe experts...

2004-05-06 Thread Greg Hosking
the export preset press uses acrobat 4 format. change this to version 5 (or later, if you are using CS i guess). v5 handles transparency much better methinks g On Wednesday, May 5, 2004, at 09:16 PM, Darren Kam wrote: I have one fairly major problem : * Some PDFs display correctly but don't

Re: One for the DTP / Adobe experts...

2004-05-06 Thread Antony N. Lord
To work around I open and rasterize it in Photoshop and save it as a single layer (transparent background) in PDF format. Yikes. Sorry, that should be a PSD (Photoshop) file hence the transparency. A typical culprit can be seen here : http://antonylord.dyndns.org/GeneralA3.pdf Views

Re: One for the DTP / Adobe experts...

2004-05-06 Thread Antony N. Lord
P.S. Had an amazing issue with a powerpoint presentation that was 362kb in it's native format, 168meg in it's Apple generated PDF format, then 1meg after Acrobat's 'reduce file size' command. Weird. Nope - I've seen that several times too. A 13 page MS Word (X) document with colour images.

Re: One for the DTP / Adobe experts...

2004-05-06 Thread Antony N. Lord
the export preset press uses acrobat 4 format. change this to version 5 (or later, if you are using CS i guess). v5 handles transparency much better methinks Have tried this without luck. Went to the printers (OfficeWorks are closest to me and are fine for a few A4 / A3 copies rather than

One for the DTP / Adobe experts...

2004-05-05 Thread Antony N. Lord
OK, I bit the bullet and bought the Adobe Design CS Premium suite to bring all my graphic design work up a notch. Almost all the printing companies I work with required PDF format files for output. Most of my layout work (posters and business cards) I do in InDesign an use the Press PDF

Re: One for the DTP / Adobe experts...

2004-05-05 Thread James Devenish
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, May 05, 2004 at 07:55:20PM +0800, Antony N. Lord wrote: OK, I bit the bullet and bought the Adobe Design CS Premium suite to bring all my graphic design work up a notch. Does that include Distiller and a decent version of Acrobat (not Standard or other such