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Quote from: Chelle on November 20, 2008, 08:57:28 PM

Quote from: LRob on November 20, 2008, 04:45:27 AM

Quote from: Chelle on November 19, 2008, 09:19:15 PMI have an EVIL Freehand question (God I hate this program...), but I digress: OK - a month or so ago I had to reinstall and the toolbar extension was corrupt. OK - got THAT fixed. NOW I have this lovely issue where I have to turn the fracking fonts to PATHS to print them. Anyone got a solution to this????

Sounds like we have another Battlestar fan! Cool

Battlestar RULES!!!! But - it has to be the original one from the '70's... MmmmmmmmmmmmDirk Benedict... LOL...

Boooooo! The remake is simply the best thing on TV right now ... well, it's not on now, but only a couple of months away!!

There was this channel on Comcast ... don't remember the name, but they used to play two episodes of the original series back-to-back every sunday a couple of years ago. Although I was a HUGE fan back in 'the day,' I couldn't really make it through one episode. Those frackin' helmets the Viper pilots used to wear ... UGH! It just doesn't hold up as well as, say, Star Trek.

I will say, though, that the brief glimpse of the original Cylons and their raiders and base stars that we were afforded in the 'Razor' movie was pretty frackin' sweet!

Starbuck is better as a chick, though.

I think the channel was ION or something. And it is sooooooooooooooo wrong to have Starbuck as a chick... But I think that Dirk said once that he did think it was interesting... MmmmmmmmmmmmmDirk... Oh sorry - what were we talking about? :laugh:

Yup - there's only so much magic you can do on a pdf in Illustrator...

Yeah - our company has a hotel/franchise supply division that does logo item and embroidery so we aren't strictly printing. You name the hotel, we are probably a vendor for it.

Quote from: DigitalCrapShoveler on November 20, 2008, 11:25:50 AMShit, CorelDraw? C'Mon.... I even hate CorelDraw!

Son of a red hen... It's almost as bad as Publisher...

Quote from: Joe on November 19, 2008, 10:54:26 PM

Quote from: Chelle on November 19, 2008, 09:19:15 PMI have an EVIL Freehand question (God I hate this program...), but I digress: OK - a month or so ago I had to reinstall and the toolbar extension was corrupt. OK - got THAT fixed. NOW I have this lovely issue where I have to turn the fracking fonts to PATHS to print them. Anyone got a solution to this????

I - L - L - U - S - T - R - A - T - O - R

(That's what all the professionals use.)

LOL... Except that I took over a gazillion files from the person before me that are already IN fracking Freehand...

Quote from: LRob on November 20, 2008, 04:45:27 AM

Quote from: Chelle on November 19, 2008, 09:19:15 PMI have an EVIL Freehand question (God I hate this program...), but I digress: OK - a month or so ago I had to reinstall and the toolbar extension was corrupt. OK - got THAT fixed. NOW I have this lovely issue where I have to turn the fracking fonts to PATHS to print them. Anyone got a solution to this????

Sounds like we have another Battlestar fan! Cool

Battlestar RULES!!!! But - it has to be the original one from the '70's... MmmmmmmmmmmmDirk Benedict... LOL...

I have an EVIL Freehand question (God I hate this program...), but I digress: OK - a month or so ago I had to reinstall and the toolbar extension was corrupt. OK - got THAT fixed. NOW I have this lovely issue where I have to turn the fracking fonts to PATHS to print them. Anyone got a solution to this????

OMG!!!! Your whiny customer story... I had one that was doing design work... And I found out later had a HISTORY DEGREE!!!!! Wow. Now here comes the best part: it got to the point where I was not allowed to talk to him anymore because apparently when I would call him and POLITELY (I have NEVER been rude to a customer or I would NOT still have my job) ask him for the fonts/graphic files he did not include or explain to him that a two color job is not a job with 4 different Pantone colors plus black and he has to fix it, he one day says to the salesman, "Wow, Chelle's tough."

Umm... What? I am NOT doing anything any OTHER print house in town wouldn't do. I was never so happy than to hear that he went off to do what he SHOULD have been doing: TEACHING HISTORY. Except that he bailed without notice and I had to finish a bunch of half-ass done projects that he left. Morong. (This is someone dumber than a moron.)

Quote from: beermonster on November 18, 2008, 01:57:22 AMi hate freehand

not as much as i hate quack however - but i do hate freehand

axe me if you must - but i'll still hate freehand - albeit with a headache

Oh hell... "Quack" is down there on the bottom of the list too... LOL...

Holy crap. Is this a free plug-in? (Excuse me if I missed this somewhere.) I freaking HATE Freehand - but I do like the whole "multiple page size thingy".

I still surf and I ALWAYS have "Fox and Friends" on while I'm reading the paper, but it freaks me out if I don't have my paper to read in the morning.

Maybe I'm actually lucky to be in the middle of nowhere in South Dakota... LOL... The owner of our company just invested about $200K in Prinergy/new processor equipment. We hear sales reps coming in and talking about other printing companies in other places laying people off, but we're busy. Hell - I've been putting in OT. (But we also have a hotel/franchise supply division.)

Quote from: Joe on November 11, 2008, 07:06:05 PMMajor newspapers will be the first to go. Local newspapapers will last longer because Grandma and Grandpa don't have internet access but eventually they will fall too. Direct Mail and books are going to be around until the end of time. They are like cockroaches. Magazines fall somewhere in the middle.

Oh, lord... I can't survive without my morning paper and coffee. It's a thing. There was an interesting column by Leonard Pitts about the fate of newspapers...

http://www.miamiherald.com/living/columnists/leonard-pitts/story/761681.html

Newspapers still needed, but going fast
By LEONARD PITTS JR.
lpitts@miamiherald.com

Maybe I should revise my estimate. Lately, many people have asked me about the fate of the American newspaper in an era when circulation, advertising and staff size are all sharply down. I've told them what editors have told me: The next 18 to 24 months may well see the first major U.S. city without a daily paper.

It's a time frame that makes people swallow hard. ''That soon?'' they say. And I say yes. The end could begin in less than two years.

Now I'm wondering if it's going to take that long.

Recent weeks have brought the usual bad news for the news business: layoffs at The Dallas Morning News, The Miami Herald and The Los Angeles Times, The Star-

Ledger in Newark losing 40 percent of its newsroom.

But here's the headline that made me do a double take: Last month, The Christian Science Monitor announced it would become the first major paper to abandon print altogether. Beginning in April, the paper will be available only online, though it will produce a weekend print magazine.

The Monitor makes this move after seeing its circulation drop from a reported peak of 220,000 in 1970 to 52,000 today. The decision is obviously an illustration of the dismal state of print journalism.

Here's hoping it's also a roadmap to its salvation.

Yes, I know. Some of you see the slow death of newspapers as wholly deserved. In this thinking, readers are fed up with coverage that tilts too far to the left. Others will call it proof that readers are sick of coverage that kowtows too much to the right. Still others will see it as a reminder that literacy is declining on both ends of the political spectrum and all points between.

Problem is, those three theses proceed from the flawed assumption that readership (as differentiated from circulation) is down. But actually, thanks to the Internet, more people are reading these words now than could have ever read them 20 years ago. So the problem isn't readership. It is, rather, finding a way to translate readership into revenue; newspapers were slow to understand the implications of the technology revolution. They have yet to figure out a business model for the Internet era that enables them to support themselves as they did back when print was king.

Until that happens, your average paper is essentially stuck trying to sell 45s in an iPod world. The Monitor is seeking to explode that paradigm, an act I suspect history will regard as either last-ditch futility or visionary courage, no in-between.

You should join me in hoping it's the latter.

Granted, I am hardly a disinterested observer. Still, I submit that the loss of this or any other newspaper represents more than the loss of a particular news platform in a world with no shortage of the same.

You see, your local news station will keep you up to date when there's blood on the sidewalk or a new report on how lettuce can give you eye cancer. And cable news will recap big national stories and provide 24/7 coverage of the latest missing co-ed. But only a newspaper reporter will dig through the mayor's garbage on your behalf.

That is, only newspapers routinely fill the function of government watchdog, particularly at the state and local level. Only a newspaper will detach a reporter to spend three, four, six months following a paper trail, documenting kickbacks, conflicts of interest, shady deals in the statehouse or the White House. And if you agree that an informed electorate is essential to a democracy, the danger of losing that should be as appalling as it is apparent.

All of us, then, have a stake in the success of The Christian Science Monitor's new venture. See, there will always be a need for newspapers. The only question is whether newspapers will be here to fill it.

I'm just gonna jump in here. My company went from Brisque to Prinergy and at first I have to say I thought they were crazy because Prinergy seemed complicated, but now it's AWESOME! You can do so much more, it's so much faster and easier to work with pdf's vs. ps files. Brisque also was not compatible with Leopard and Prinergy is so YAY!!!!!

I don't do the imposition at the company I am at now - I did imposition at a past company. BUT I sat at my desk and basically got to listen in while a couple guys at the next desk over did teleconference training on Preps with this new system and I felt like I could still do it. It sounds like there are tons of things that Prinergy can do that Brisque can't. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong.)