Quote from: tapdn on November 12, 2009, 11:13:35 AMBest of luck to you tp... these things do tend to work out the way they should.

Thanks everyone for the luck !

Quote from: tapdn on November 12, 2009, 11:11:08 AMshould...but

bring color bar (static mark) to front of pages then select my crop mark (also static) and bring to front then the color bar is still on top of my crop mark! Think I vaguely remember there is a key combo involved.

will the automatic preps fold marks work? I'm going to have to fire up my "demo" of Preps at home and check this out - been too long!

Quote from: tapdn on November 12, 2009, 10:36:29 AMThat will work for me Skryb, but not the perfect solution. The answer is stuck in the back filing cabinet of my feeble brain!!  :undecided:

thanx

been a while since I've actually used preps but this sort of thing came up all the time when I did. preps crop marks will come to the front and will have a hairline white knockout around them. You could step and repeat them or a static mark brought to the front should work too. Don't have preps in front of me to verify this but I remember doing stuff like this all the time.

Well, after looking on and off for over a year for another prepress job I am being called back for a 2nd interview at a place that might be suitable for me. Having mixed feelings about my current job as some days it is pretty ok, and other days I wonder why I even took it on.

Money talks I guess, if everything else is right and it puts me back to the wage I was accustomed to when I took on a hefty mortgage then maybe it is time for a change.

I was able to select elements with PitStop, I only have an older version of pitstop (acrobat 6 with pitstop 7.1) as I inherited this mac from the Nexpress department. Nice job with the black "trim box" or wtf. I love when people put that stuff on there, crop marks are sooo yesterday.

GPL Ghostscript is a free alternate .ps & .pdf interpreter. I played with it years ago but can't understand why someone with Indesign would need it or use it to make a pdf.

if you just need to do a couple...

use touch up object tool - ctrl click - edit image - opens in photoshop (if not, check your settings), command+I - save - zoom out in acrobat - voila.

gee, I've had bad luck sometimes with touch up object, with things moving after save. Best copy down the numbers in Pitstop Inspector - position tab if this happens to you.

If you need to do a bunch... hmm. if there was an ICC profile that inverted images you could use the enfocus image matching panel.

edit = I didn't read all the way, I guess you want to invert the whole pdf - not just images... wow.
How the heck did I used to do that? Have to ponder it for a sec.... how about printing to another pdf as negative? I don't have anything installed with a ppd that would allow that  feature...


edit again - yeah, if you put the pdf in indy, pick "Postscript File" as your printer, and pick a PPD that allows negative printing, you may be able to do this without doing it on your rip

Quote from: Possum on November 11, 2009, 11:30:49 AMAsk them what they think of Publisher. That should weed out a lot right there.

I was recently asked what my least favorite project to work on would be... I had to fudge but that should have been the answer, I said Word and Excel. It's been 4-5 years since I worked at a place that accepted Publisher, guess I was spoiled. As long as they have Pitstop I guess I can manage.

Quote from: youston on November 10, 2009, 02:45:05 PM

Quote from: tpatterson on November 10, 2009, 02:42:09 PM

Quote from: youston on November 10, 2009, 01:01:16 PM(and I'm fairly confident that there aren't a whole ton of NexPresses in operation in the US).

We now have 3, so there's at least 4 of em

edit: I guess one's "f*cked" according to the operator.

Let me guess ... it's the one that says "NexPress" on it. Am I right?

I think that's why they have 3 of them  :evil:

Quote from: frailer on November 10, 2009, 02:21:52 PMWhat is a RIP? (our last 1 day trial didn't know... :shocked:)

Can I has a job there?
(I lived in Aus from 1974-1983 and have not been back, my wife and I want to bail on this place and go live there)

Quote from: youston on November 10, 2009, 01:01:16 PM(and I'm fairly confident that there aren't a whole ton of NexPresses in operation in the US).

We now have 3, so there's at least 4 of em

edit: I guess one's "f*cked" according to the operator.

Quote from: Chilbear on November 06, 2009, 03:45:05 PMPerhaps a smart call is to reproof a job from pre - RIP change and duplicate it with the new workflow.

Some shops believe in cutting back the dot to gain back on press but this is only correct for using one substrate (coated or uncoated). The majority I believe are linear off the platesetter and the press is responsible for their own mess. At least you "know" the platesetter is outputting 50% because you can measure it. Post press is another thing.

Our shop has 3 different Harmony curves for each press, one for gloss, one for matte, and one for offset & hi bulk. This is after many many hours spent fingerprinting the presses. The plate maker dude has to select the correct curve when outputting the plate, and pressmen have to remember to do so too when doing a remake. It's been a while since I've worked in the printing side of the business but I see work that looks just peachy, especially for webs.

But being linear is at least something. At least you know any deviation is on press, either in dot gain or some other press/chemistry/pressure issue. I've worked at shops that were so far off nothing ever looked right. They'd fight with jobs for hours, send everything back to prep for color correction, waste more plates and time, and still never get it right.

Quote from: Farabomb on November 04, 2009, 03:59:26 PMIf that gif is of you punting a cone at an auto-x in a VW I know your mindset quite well.  :cool:

+2 for that.

it is and it was Somehow I avoided a DNF on that run.

Quote from: Farabomb on October 30, 2009, 02:10:20 PM

Quote from: tpatterson on October 30, 2009, 12:51:53 PMHi, I'm new here. Been out of prepress for about 18 months and thinking of getting back in.

 

Did you leave Prepress because of a head trauma? You must have some sort of amnesia if you're looking to get back into it. 

Yeah but the head trauma wore off... what can I say? I've been in middle management for nearly 2 years now, but less money, more headaches, less job security, and the fact that I'm not as good at this as I am at unfckucking deziners stuff makes me want to be back punching a clock, behind a mac, and sure of what I'm doing.

Hi, I'm new here. Been out of prepress for about 18 months and thinking of getting back in.

Anyway, I would always get dcs files to output correctly retaining spot colors by making a .ps file with OPI on and refining to pdf thru Prinergy. HTH.