I'm finding out that a lot of the work we get through here (is banners and stickers) are 800 page plans and specs books, mostly done in CAD. We have to resize the work to 8.5x11 usually (sometimes 11x17) but this latest order came in raster instead of vector and all that's supplied is pdf. There's 860 pages of these things, and it's choking Prisma, so we need to reduce file size somehow. 

What's the best recommendation? Using the default reduce file size option, or using the optimize pdf and defining?

Quote from: Tracy on May 09, 2024, 08:11:28 AMI still and always will call them Master Pages, can't help it

Do you still call it a Master Bedroom? Most people have moved on to call it a Primary Bedroom, as the term Master Bedroom harks from slavery days.

Quote from: DCurry on May 09, 2024, 01:07:23 PMHe's over on the Dark Side boards. Used to work for Kodak, I think. Basically knows everything.

Speaking of the Dark Side, yesterday I was looking for something, and I came across the post where the guy called us a bunch of 12 year olds (well, it was before I joined, so he called you all a bunch of 12 year olds). I still keep my age at 12 on this forum for that reason (DCS had filled me in on the story years ago), but I noticed Joe's age changed to 69. Not sure if that's a joke or not, but I enjoy seeing everyone's age at 12.

Quote from: Foozball on May 08, 2024, 03:05:05 PMI is, what I is ... just because I ignore crap, doesn't mean I don't notice, or have preferences ...
Colour Color
Centre Center
Aluminium Aluminum
1" / 2.54cm / 25.4mm
15/16 / 0.9375
widows
orphans
case / slab (beer)

Let's kill 'em

He different'n us.

~the South

Quote from: Foozball on May 08, 2024, 11:29:25 AMThe same thing we NOW do with double spaces ... "IGNORE".

That's true.

My Mom's parents are both deceased and my Dad passed away 17 years ago, and I ignore her.

Quote from: Skryber on May 08, 2024, 11:13:35 AMwhat are we doing about widows and orphans?

to hell with them

Quote from: Joe on May 07, 2024, 04:58:48 PMJust gullible.

ayup

Quote from: Joe on May 07, 2024, 03:32:06 PMHow a couple lost thousands after responding to Apple security scam

If you're that stupid to fall for, "buying gift cards," then you deserve to get swindled. Let's think about this logically... you know you didn't do anything wrong, and let's say someone did remote into your iPad... what site were you on that allowed the attacker to gain access? Maybe you're NOT so innocent after all...

$15,000? Hell no. I'd take my iPad to ewaste for shredding, and for $600 I'd buy a new one.

If I were really paranoid I'd go buy a new router with a VPN and configure my devices to connect through the VPN. I do that anyways so I can get out of market sports, or watch local teams that got blacked out.

I once had an Italian-American boss who claimed to be offended by Burger King's Whopper.

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.

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.

Quote from: Tracy on May 02, 2024, 10:12:04 AMThese particular data files were not for mailing
They were for cards, badges, and envelopes
the customer redid the data with shorter titles for the badges.
the didn't like the small font they ended up with. 

I had a training course to take online and they showed this and I thought of you, Tracy

Hard to put 10lbs. of shit in a 5lb. bag.