Quote from: david on March 02, 2020, 04:29:39 PM
memories of days gone by?

glue them together and make a lamp
hang them from a tree to scare varmints
make a mobile
Christmas presents

I'm liking *all of those... which one to choose.  :undecided:

Anyone see any reason to keep any of these?

Thanks. Thrown that in the mix. Compadre here muttering "adobe... conspiracy... etc etc..."

My compadre keeps getting this popping up when he has PDFs open.

Any clues as to how to kill it?

...righted itself. My compadre had been printing from PhSh not long before it. I think that was affecting it.

Still haven't found where bidirectional is hidden in Black Magic.   

I *know that bi-directional printing, (our default), is run from BM, not the Epson.
Our 7900 Pro has started randomly doing uni-directional.
-it's sloooow
-it's annoying, as the return is speeded up, and whines upwards!

Can someone tell this dumkopf where it is/pathway in Serendipity Client?  Grrrrrrrr!
It's buried somewhere.... I thought Workbench, but so far eluding me.

Thanks!

No. New job, using imported SSTs at the 150mm W size, but tweaked to 160 W. Which shouldn't be an issue. Not an old job restored from Archive.
I suspect somehow that an update wasn't done, (button or Cmd+U) and he's been able to render it at the wrong (old, SST size), without getting a warning dialogue box.
It will remain a mystery, but it had all the elements of being unnoticeable right through to bindery; small tweak, possible PICNIC (or not) issue on top.
Extra vigilant now, anyway; don't want a repeat. He is very experienced, and used many systems (starting with Sun Sparc LOL), but only had XMF here. Which is not really a problem, because of his experience... (and terrific instruction, natch  )

OK, time to move on...

My co-worker had a job that was to be 160(W) x 240 (H) [mm].
He brought in a Stripping Sheet Template (SST), at 150x240... a regular size for us, and changed it in Sigs to 160 . Applied it to the 16pp.
He also (I think) used SSTs for the preceding two 4 page sheets, (which did not experience the problem I'll describe).

The problem was that, according to him, when it was queried (you know that moment when they walk in waving a sheet "what happened here?"), the tweaked page dimensions in Sigs showed the altered 160mm W, but rendered at 150 W. Ouch. Thing is, being only 10mm diff., it went through to bindery where it was noticed on the Stitch trimmer. (well... yeah). But when he *then did a re-render it *did go to the wanted 160.
If he'd changed it (which he's saying he did, and on opening it indicated he had), how did it render at the incorrect size?
This may of course be a bug in XMF where using 'tweaked' SSTs has an element of danger to it.

The *only extraneous issue may have been that we had a power outage on the preceding Sunday (no UPS), and I'd had to button up from scratch on Monday morning. But I guess that's wishful thinking.

...edit 9th Dec. ... thinking some sort of quirky (undiagnosable) PICNIC problem.

Quote from: Joe on November 11, 2019, 10:49:42 PM
PNG files are useful because they can have a transparent white background whereas jpeg files cannot. Downside is larger file size. Designers are getting quite fond of using them (png files) in print jobs.

Interesting. Yep... whatever's easiest for them.

Quote from: Joe on November 11, 2019, 05:02:11 PM
Yes Onyx can change it to JPG and also you can change it via the terminal using:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type JPG

Hmmm ... might try that.

... it worked, Joe!     I had a slight dose of Terminal Terror, but decided to actually do it. I think 'sudo' is the danger area, correct? I gather PNGs have all sorts of other crap built in that in this case is not required.
Or is it an outmoded file format now anyway?

I use Cmd+Shift+4 > marquee a lot. Defaults is PNG. Anyone knowhow to change the default to .jpg? Can the res be set, if so?

PNGs tend to be big files.

Quote from: david on November 06, 2019, 04:41:16 PM
I'd say good luck making it "vector"

Here's a happy ending.
-it was already high contrast
-my compadre's been doing this shite since Sun Sparc Workstations
-He 'cleaned it up' in PhSh
-did a creditable job in Illy with Live Trace

Who woulda thought...  :smiley:

...  thanks all for the input. 

Compadre's been given a PDF to 'try and make vector'.

Cmd+D gives 'Skia/PDF . ... Producer 'Chromium'.

What, and from whence cometh, this ugly beast?

Quote from: Joe on October 18, 2019, 02:47:15 PM
I recently had to drag out a Windows 2000 server from the recycle pile to install drivers on it for a decrepit Canon copier that they dragged in here from someone else's trash heap. They were shocked when we got it to print and it look really crappy. Why else do you suppose the other place put it on the trash heap????

I just shake my head at some of your stories from deepest Southern IL.     What... possesses them to want to do stuff like this? But you just luuurv a challenge, right?

An unforgettable time. Wish you all well... and hope that septum self-heals!