Quote from: DCurry on February 18, 2025, 04:05:14 PMOne thing that is kinda cool is that when used in a Prinect workflow, when I import a template to the Prinect job, now I can edit that template and the edits are only living in that local Prinect job, not in the template that I imported.

Preps could do that too. Did it daily back in the day.

Vector drop shadows should be against the law.

Quote from: Slappy on February 05, 2025, 11:39:18 AMWell well well - points go to the Old Man Joe!

So far, so good, even if I did forget to backup my regular Prefs too...

Other option...have you tried deleting InDesign preferences via "macOS: Shift+Option+Command+Control while starting InDesign"? It should prompt if you want to delete InDesign preferences (at least it used to).

Quote from: born2print on February 04, 2025, 01:43:34 PMHere's a pic of the smart mark on a press sheet.
You can see it on the plates too, easier than trying to see the slugs at the bottom (processless plates aren't as easy to see things as regular plates)

That really is a great way of doing it.

Quote from: RMPrepress on February 04, 2025, 12:50:27 PMYeah, well as of Prinergy 10 I think it was you can rename pagesets

OK I upgraded the old workplace to Prinergy 9.something right before I retired. People asked Kodak for years to give us the ability to rename page sets. Good to hear they finally listened. I guess they were just waiting for me to leave.

Quote from: RMPrepress on February 04, 2025, 11:16:28 AMWhat would be the concern with not creating a new page set at the point?  what is the warning about resetting intent information all about?

It depends if Prinergy is pulling the info from the imposition or pageset for the plate identifier info. If it takes them from the impo there is no need to create a new pageset other than if the pageset contains the old job number it might be confusing for someone else to come along into the job. Not really sure about the resetting intent information. I always ignored it and did what I wanted. LOL My experience in Prinergy is 3 years old now though so things might have changed that I am unaware of.

Quote from: born2print on February 04, 2025, 10:21:24 AMWe use Archive to disk, and it backs-up everything.
So we copy to new name (new job #), retrieve, then it's all there - ready to plate or print digi as-is for exact RR.
Or, it's all there, ready for whatever changes to art or imposition or both.
I'm not really understanding why it's necessary for you to do what seems to me to be extra steps?
is it just to get things like the impo renamed?
If so, there's other ways to get around that...

I think they want the new job# to appear on the plate identifier info. In that case edit the old impo with the new job number in the name and have it create a new pageset with the new job# if necessary. Once the new pageset is created you can right click on the old pageset and instruct it to copy the pages from the old pageset to the new pageset exactly as they are in the old pageset so there is no danger of getting them wrong in the new pageset. Delete the old impo and pageset if you want to make sure things don't get more confusing down the line.

Quote from: Slappy on February 04, 2025, 09:00:03 AMActually, the only thing I haven't done is disable the Network because there's no way to reasonably work without it.

But if you did disable the Network and the spinning beach ball doesn't come up you would at least know it is something with the network or InDesign is phoning home to the Adobe HQ planet way too often...similar to David's problem/solution.

The Secret of Life.

Quote from: DigiCorn on January 28, 2025, 11:27:19 AMIn printing, I am just waiting for the day when someone sends me a book, typed entirely in wingdings, with a note that says, "I goofed up and didn't have time to change the font. Can you just decipher it for me?" And it's a 400 page pdf with placed .pngs of all the text.

This is the way!

Quote from: Slappy on January 28, 2025, 10:21:27 AMBoth parts in 2 vids:

https://imgur.com/a/8n7RmF1

Quote from: Slappy on January 13, 2025, 09:57:14 AMNew to this, I don't think anybody at this place has even used Expressions yet, although we have a license.
Customer wants to have an individual's first name masked out of a base image, the image will be common to all of the names & I'd assume the resulting masked images will then be incorporated into a full job - postcard for example.
I've looked through the FP Expressions samples but don't see this kind of effect - anybody done something like this in the FP software?
Half-assed sample image attached for reference.

And now the person that came up with this idea will completely change their mind. Welcome to prepress.

Quote from: Slappy on December 18, 2024, 08:28:28 AMLol, it just makes the Connect window HUGE or TINY.

Sounds like a bug in the software then.

Not sure what version of MacOS you are on but on mine if you go to System Settings and then click on Displays you should see something like this:



Option+Click on one of those icons and it should change to this:



Select the lowest resolution with that window open and then go back to your normal resolution and see if that does anything to that window.