Frigging calendars

[Farabomb]

I just got 2 calendars set up as spreads and I now have to break them apart so I cam impose them. Anyone run into this on a regular basis and have any tricks they would like to share? I can kinda understand why the designers did it this way but it makes it a pain on my end... not that designers have ever considered the lowly prepresser when they create their great masterpieces.

[DigiCorn]

Nope. I make a .pdf and then place the (in spreads) pdf by hand, page by page into an ID file (sliding each on up or down to center; I also place them properly rotated as well). I apply the spot varnish as needed. Then I make a new pdf for Rampage. That way, when imposing in Preps, I can actually add a creep that goes in the correct direction. Been bitten in the ass too many times on calendars to not want to spend the extra time to do it this way.

[gnubler]

Calendars

[Tracy]

instead of looking at it as a calendar i look at it as a booklet left to right
kind of takes away the confusion of the head direction and  impoing
since your having to separate the pages, do 1-ups?

If you look at a calendar this way all heads go left except the back page

[frailer]

Tracy's onto something there. But calendars certainly are a pain in the date. These days I set them up as Flatwork sheets in XMF; manually numbered and rotated. Then I map the pages manually off my impo., rotate pages as needed, as XMF has a 'page mapping window If I didn't have XMF, I guess it woulda been PREPS or Dyna...or Indy. No easy answer on calendars.

[Farabomb]

It ended up working exactly like Tracy said. I placed the spreads over 2 separate pages, rotated 90 and off it went. Coming out of the proofer shortly. I have never needed to put creep into a calendar but I can see how it can go all wonky. This is the 3rd calendar I've gotten this week and I'm still playing catchup from when a "world class designer" sent me a file with nothing but FPO's and unlinked higres images.

[David]

...when a "world class designer" sent me a file with nothing but FPO's and unlinked higres images.

we get those a bunch, it only takes about 10 times longer to preflight the job.

[Farabomb]

Yea, not all the images were there either. Asked for the missing ones, got the same damn thing renamed sent to me. Said screw it, it's going through as is then I get harassed about when she's getting the proof. Luckily this wasn't face to face or I would have hit her with my crutch.