I got an email recently; an invoice from PayPal saying that my payment was declined. Obviously it was phony, because I don't have a PayPal account. I have told the old people in my life to ignore all of that stuff. Who's still falling for these scams?

I am doing an implicit bias training course online right now, and I DO realize the insensitivity behind MASTER pages, but that's what CWS calls them. They really need to change the name the name to SHELL or do like InDesign and change it to PARENT.

Usually if you stick to well-known vendors, they don't play dirty with their customers' info, including e-mail, although customer lists are a legit way for them to make more moolah. I very rarely deal with a new company I've never heard of for that reason. Sometimes, though, you just can't stop the crap. Spam is the least of the damage they can do, so it's just having common-sense vigilance.

I once had some company charging me around $7 a month for some subscription to some diet program of theirs I never heard of. It was obviously crooked, as each month the charge was listed under a different category, such as florist, books, etc. I guess they depended on getting a lot of card numbers and charging a small amount they hoped nobody would notice. I got the charge removed each month until they gave up.

That's a lot of work, I made my zip pdfs and then on the output pdf
I jpg'd it, When all is said and done my folder is 3gb!
it's just a 12pg plus cover

Thanks I almost ruined the file!!!

Whats their privacy policy?  just kidding

Hey Thanks! going to check it out!

you just reminded me we have Bates Nut Farm right up the road here!

Order from here and see if they can overnight it. It's only about 6-8 hours from San Diego. And no, Sierra Nut House is not an asylum.

If quality is of any concern, I wouldn't compress anything. What I might do, in a rare pinch, is make two files. One that is an all raster pdf not compressed, and one that is all vector pdf. Drop both files into Command Workstation and impose them both identically. Then, make the raster file a MASTER and treat the vector file as an IMPRINT. CWS will process the file much more quickly in this fashion and you won't lose quality.

ZIP is a lossless compression if you use the maximum quality setting so it should not degrade anything.

What if I do a zip pdf after the jpg pdf?
see above

yeah doing that keeps the images jpg so I'm assuming that is bad

Ah! so if I make a pdf and then put that in a saddle stitch template
and make a new pdf it will lower the quality?

see that is good info, I didn't think of that, I thought only editing the images would cause a problem

Thanks David!