Yikes - that's about $1000 over my allowance! But probably damn well worth it.

Thanks, Joe - I do assume you mean 16 or 32 GB, not MB!!

The boss wants another person in Prepress. I have to buy a new PC and subscribe to Adobe, basically get it to a usable computer.
What PC do y'all have? Dell, HP? 1tb, i7...
I have to get it today or tomorrow to have online next week.
Not really the way I want to do it but this will help pave my way to retirement next year.
Thanks all!

Thanks, David!

Embarrassing but...
Been in prepress for 35 years and have not really had a good education on what strike through is. We have a job going to an outside printer for spot UV. It will have a dull or soft touch coating with gloss spot UV. The printer is asking if we want it as a strike-thru.
Educate me please!

Okay. The InDesign file has 10 layers. Looking at it now, the only thing I need to really "Paste Into" is the background layer. All the copy and other crap can sit on top. Lemme try the background only and report back.

I have a client file that was built entirely in InDesign with placed graphics. I have a dieline from Illustrator and want to paste the design into the dieline ad do it in InDesign. I have copied the dieline from Illustrator and pasted into InDesign (probably the only time I've ever copied from one program to the other). I have tried copying or cutting everything from the page to paste into the dieline. I've seen this work before and I think it had something to do with how the Illustrator path was copied from Illustrator.

This should work, correct?
Help!

Quote from: DigiCorn on October 22, 2019, 11:22:10 AM
It's a tad touchy with that feature that hides everything, but I don't know what that's called or how to adjust it.

Cntrl-Alt-Delete. Nice hide feature! The adjustment is dependent on the user frustration level at the time in combination with the number of times you hit this hide combination along with the ferocity of the keystroke. Unfortunately there isn't an Undo feature.

Quote from: DigiCorn on October 22, 2019, 02:43:18 PM
I just open in Illy, correct color, and resave

Well, that's setting a fine example for the rest of the prepress world!
Now the boss will expect me to fix the files that come in. What a precedent!

Quote from: Joe on October 22, 2019, 12:18:25 PM
Prepress GOM: Your are a f*&^%##^ing idiot.

That's EXACTLY what I said!!

I've been warning them ahead of time and let 'em run as long as the client knows the iffiness of png.

I never thought PNG files would become a part of 4 color printing but I'm seeing more all the time. Are they reliable for separations?

Oooo, that would not be good.
Hopefully I can tell it just the Navigator RIP and settings files. That's all I need copied.

Quote from: Joe on June 03, 2019, 07:27:36 AM
You can put it in the Win 7 box and it won't blow up but it won't work if you don't have a Win 7 driver loaded for it.

If we drop the PCI card into the W7 box, will it not search for a driver or would this be asking too much for a 10year off setup?

I have the RIP install CD. I'll pop it in to the W7 box and see what it tells me.

And thanks for sharing, Joe. Much appreciated.