At least for me....got a pdf from customer using truetype fonts, not embedded in file. File is photoshop vector file(?) from windows....errored trying to rip, couldn't find the font (only wanted to see if it would rip the fonts properly, they would not display correctly). The funny thing is that the blue you see is image and the "font" is actually a clipping textline(?)....had to find the font, convert the font (can't embed a truetype font in acrobat) and embed the font for the damned thing to work. It says photoshop CS on the properties, but I have never seen anything like this before (photoshop vector? how'd they even do this?)

Where would I get (find) a ppd (are they called that on the dark side?) for Adobe PDF Writer? I have Acrobat 8.0 installed...would that print driver have installed along with it? If so, where would I find it? I searched my computer last night and can't seem to find it anywhere....

Think I've discovered a bug...just curious if anyone else has noticed anything like this....when creating a book, metrix picks the first imposition available. When we create a 12 pager and it applies the imposition, it shorts the height of pages 1 & 12 (also 2 & 11, duh). If I go and pick another layout and then re-apply the same 12 page layout (that shorted the pages), it comes back in fine. I have deleted the folding scheme and recreated it exactly and it still does the same thing. Getting ready to call the Metrix people, but was wondering if anybody has run across anything like this before.

OK, the first time this happened, I was happy to let it go (no biggie, really)....but now it's just getting annoying

For the second day in a row, I got this when opening Illy CS3....anybody got any idea what could be causing my prefs to corrupt?

So the customer supplied a pdf file, fonts embedded subsets....only problem is there are 2 tint boxes that they created with transparency (should have just been a 15% black tint). Anyway, the job is being done outside of here by a place that has problems with transparency. So in pitstop I did a flatten using Acrobat....well somehow the font got all funky (yes, those lovely little square boxes that we've all come to know and love). Went back and did some tests, if I "remove transparency from selection" and modify it to be a 15% black tint, no problems. Why would the flatten command mess with the font? Anyone?

When we finally updated Rampage to 11.2, a strange thing happened. Now when we gang proof our ripped files, the page identifier it used to put on the bottom of the pages shows up as a bunch of boxes (obviously a font issue). The strange thing is that is doesn't always do this, sometimes it prints fine. I have spent the last 2 days trying to track down where it gets the fonts that it uses for this and have been unsuccessful. Rampage was called a couple months ago about this and they are "working on it" (yeah, right). Anybody know anything about this?

I've been trying on and off all morning to figure out if there's a way to completely inverse (colorized tiff images included) a pdf file with pitstop. I mean just like you were in photoshop. I had a file for a "breakthrough" varnish that was in positive form but I needed it in negative (running the plate in negative was out of the question because the pressman didn't want varnish going to the edges of the sheet)....Oh and did I mention that the raw file is in quark? (so you can understand why I was hesitant to go all the way back to square one). I can make an action list that inverses all the spot varnish except for the images....anyone, anyone?

they change them again....

anybody aware of the fact that now in CS4 you are able to place an .ai file WITH BLEED? Apparently somebody at Adobe finally became aware of the fact that the only way to place an .ai file with bleed in Indesign was to increase the size of the illustrator document...

so happy I could shit rainbows....  :grin:

Don't know if anybody can help with this, but it's totally out of my area of expertise (as if I have one)....but here goes...

I have an G4 Ibook at home, started acting up, occasionally wouldn't boot all the way up for my husband, so I figured I would download applejack and that was the beginning of the end...it froze while downloading, couldn't get it to boot all the way again (just the grey apple screen, sometimes ending in a blue screen, sometimes freezing on the silver apple screen).

so here's what I've tried so far...

I was actually able to boot from the hardware fix disc that was included with the mac, it froze while checking the memory....couldn't get the disk out, finally had to eject from firmware screen. Tried the techtool disc, couldn't get that to work at all...again had to eject using firmware. I then put in the installation disk that came with the computer (can not boot from that no matter what I try, starting up holding down the C key and I get the kernel panic message, if I hold down the option key, I get the startup manager but it freezes before I can choose the disk for it to boot from). I have tried resetting the pram in hopes that it would help me boot from a cd but no go. I have also tried to do an fsck in single user mode but the white screen freezes, not allowing me to type in the commands.

So my question is this...since the firmware seems to be the only thing that's working, is there a way to do fsck in the firmware or am I totally screwed?? Anything else that I've missed that I can try? Anyone? Anyone?

Having another really strange issue (do I ever have any other kind?)...will get a pdf from customer, trim boxes look fine, everything is good to go, rip the file and in the RSI Jobs/RSI Data folder, there are 2 pdfs (one on the surface of the folder, the other in an fpo folder)...The pdf on the surface folder is fine (trimbox where it should be, etc) but the one in the fpo folder has the trimbox WAY off in the outer limits...we just started using Metrix and all the positioning depends on trimboxes, so this really screws up the works...anybody seen anything like this before?

Had a really strange one yesterday...a coworker converted a quack file to ID that contained a specific designed font that has no ligatures to it...anyway, the file bounced back when the customer noticed that everywhere there was an instance of "fi" or some similar ligature type, it was blank (kind of reminiscent of a file that DCS had awhile back)...I got the file on the rebound and found that if it was opened in Quark (original app), it was fine, but in Indesign, it tried to apply ligatures to all those type instances....If I selected all the type in that box using that font, and clicked off ligatures in the character pull down menu, all was fine.....my solution?? PDF out of Quark (everything was fine, even though Quark still sucks). Maybe this is a built-in landmine that Quark has developed to eliminate all conversions to Indesign?? (Do I sound paranoid?)

Had a new one the other day...Quark 7 files, running as 4 color, no big deal. The place I work at now does not run the app preflight, but we have our own sort of checklist. Our rip is set up to error on RGB images, so we know if any are in the document without opening each one. Anyway, simple job, exported a pdf from Quark 7, took a look in pitstop, everything looked good (images were in cmyk) ripped without a hitch, but the color looked a little funky, so I went back to the Quark file and guess what....the images were actually RGB. Anybody run into anything like this? Apparently, Quark "converted" the images when I exported the pdf...I have never seen that before, is this something new? 

OK, I KNOW that back when I used to postscript files before ripping them, that DCS2 files out of Quark WORKED. I tried every which way (except ps) to get a DCS2 file to export correctly to a pdf file. I even went so far as to try saving it as an eps, still no go. Used the CMYK and spot setting, also used the AS IS setting, but to no avail. I finally ended up opening the image out of the stinkin pdf file and making a spot channel and saving it back into the pdf (that actually worked). Any ideas or does Quark suck worse than it used to?

We have a weird thing going on here...a customer used this "void" screen bar on every odd page in a book. Using the same image (bitmap tif file)...it's placed on pages with pretty much the same artwork on each page (with some different images, nothing that would really matter...). Anyway, some of the pages printed the way they were supposed to (you couldn't really see the word "void") and some did not (the word was very obvious). There was no real rhyme or reason to the rotation of the pages, or anything like that. It had to be run at 150 LPI to work(?) which it didn't on some pages(?) Anyone? Anyone?   

OK, so I got a CMYK mode .psd file with a spot color and black. The customer made the black channel a spot channel named "black". Didn't really think about that too much (as far as putting the spot "black" into the CMYK black channel). But I did change it to a multichannel (since I couldn't place the psd file into Indesign because of the spot), and saved it as a DCS2 file. This is what I was supplied....

OK, I've got one that I'm seriously trying to figure out...Indesign CS4, file says I'm missing a font. Fine, but when I do a find font, it appears that it's in a "graphic", only the "graphic" is really only the type itself. I have been trying to figure out how the hell they pulled this one off and so far have been unsuccessful...anybody else run into this yet? I thought maybe it was from them dragging the file into a new document, but doing this did not affect any of the other actual fonts in the file...   

Had a good one the other day....my co-worker asked me to do her a favor and save a pdf from a file she had been working on. She said everytime she tried to save one, her indesign would crash. I opened it on my machine and tried to export and sure enough, it crashed. So I asked where the original document was, opened it in CS3, exported and everything was fine. The moral of the story? I guess open your documents in the version they were created in......   

here's a new one that some of you may already know (DCS?). you can actually have several different artboard sizes in ONE document in Illustrator CS4. There is a new tool (artboard tool) which you can use to drag a new artboard then under document setup - edit artboard - you can set up the new size. Illustrator will assign a number to each artboard allowing you to save pdfs separately. See attached 

At the risk of being a real PITA, I need to ask another one....At times we do things like scratch off foils here (that need to overprint). The other day, quite by accident, I realized that when you rip a file with an overprint like this, the information below the overprint will NOT trap. (The reason I know this is because I ripped it by accident without the foil once and it trapped fine). Anybody know anyway to get around this and have the file trap below the overprint?

OK, here's something I discovered (some of you may already know this, but here goes...)

You know how sometimes you get pdfs and when you click on the image with the Touchup object tool, there's several parts to the image (makes opening it in photoshop to adjust it a real chore...) If you select the touchup object tool and shift click all the parts of the image, then option click (to open the image), it will open in illustrator (still in several parts). Now select all and rasterize, save and close. It will go back into the pdf as one piece, now you can open it in Photoshop and do what you will with it...  :smiley: