Quote from: scottrsimons on September 23, 2024, 06:15:24 AMAt work we have 2 different NASs onsite that things get backed up to. And 1 offsite. Oh, another one onsite that turns on at a set time does the backup, and then turns off again. But nothing online.

Soon that may be changing to 1 or 2 onsite and then an online option.

At home, I only backup photos to my own NAS with a RAID.

I'm what the kids call "old school", I don't like online backups or much of anything else if I can avoid it. The only thing that it has come in handy for, was backing up my phone. Then it makes it really easy to change out phones.

Keeping control of your personal data is quite hard now a days with all the online options and "needs".

At home I backup to a extenal HD... pretty much just pictures for my wife.

At work I just want to have an offsite/cloud that will be less time consuming than the DVDs... I am presently 15 DVDs (30 burns) backward...

Anyone use backblaze?

I forgot to mention I do a backup to a WD HD with Ashampoo backup 25.

Time is the crushing thing with burning DVDs, they take forever and have lots redos. I have used windows and Ashampoo burn studio (free one) which yield about the same results.

I work in a shop that reuses job numbers. They use it for the same or similar jobs from the same customer. I have been making DVD sized backups as I go. I also have an onsite backup of the last 100 DVDs burned. I Make duplicate DVDs for the owner to bring home just in case. DVDs being what they are, I have had issues with a few that burn but will not copy back. Fun!!! Losing hair quickly! This is also a pretty slow drawn out process. It's much better than what they had, which died the second month I was here.

I would like to do an online archiving of those older DVDs and start to burn folders to that instead of two DVDs.

Considering Backblaze $6.00 a Terabyte per month. We have about 2 TB.

What do you do, what do you think?

Thanks!!

We used them and are in transition to them. They seem better for detail than our Trillian plates, but we have to buy remaing stock of plates, so someday.

Considering chemical balance at our place is mesa mesa I look forward to the new plates.

So now they have V2.52, with a variable font engine. PDFs, however get instances. Not sure how it all works.

I will say stability seems really great compared to the older 1.x versions.

So as a general fan of the program, it's gotten me out of some major jams and frustrated me at simple items at times (it's very inconsiderate of multiple placings of pdfs with Pantone, they tend to process out).
I was considering keeping it in the 1.9 update, but this update seems pretty critical.

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/whats-new/

It won't replace InDesign any time soon, but it does have some great parts to it, for the price I highly reccomend.

PDF Toolbox may help in this instance.

You can send it to me and I'd be happy to try it for you.


Rodi

Nah,

Sorry, its for sales/quotation. No way to make a PDF work!

It goes all the way 28 x 40.

Gotta see about custom size sheets and if it will dutch.

Looks like it will work with digital.

I just got the license key, and fargin work got in the way of checking it out.

Looks pretty nice though.

PDF Studio does this easily in the imposition. I just did some compelx jobs using it.

Qoppa PDF Studio Pro ($65) has that and many other cool options that have saved me.
https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI28jT3_OyhQMVPFRHAR2X2AyOEAAYASAAEgJPSPD_BwE

Reversing pages is easy.

It has a manual, but good Imposition module too

So I read about this this morning on What They Think and thought it could be good for some folks here.

https://hiflowsolutions.com/free-imposition-application/

You have to sign up with a business email (my yahoo mail would not suffice, but my Zohomail did) and they send you a link which I have yet to get, but I am excited about a new tool that can help.


Have Fun!

That is terrible news!

Well, at least I can still work it out on Windows 11.

For all the things it has done right, this isn't one of them!

Canva is a no win situation from my perch.

I overprint 100K black rules, type less than 18 pt generally. Anything where trapping will not work better thab overprint black. Sometimes I have to decide how something will trap/overprint out of the ordinary.

I have the same issue with dies, but I do it upfront and have a folder of saved dies that overprint. The further upfront I can stop an issue the better. Sometimes it takes work.