My final Xerox 7700 finally kicked the bucket.
I have a pile of supplies I would like to dispose of.

Anyone needing some?

Toners - fusers - accumulator bely - print carts - etc ...


MSD

I have been running an old Comcast Motorola modem for years.
Now they want to send me a new updated one.
OK
But - I see, I am renting it for $8 a month.
What would be my best choice for a modem to purchase (for home)?
Simple - 1 Mac and 1 Mackbook Pro
both connected with Airport Express units.

Thank you very much for suggestions,
   MSD

I remember - from the distant past - a free little piece of software that could tell you "how many up"
of each would best fit on a sheet, if you gave it the info.

I constantly need to do digital impositions where the combination press sheets may have
50 of 5 cards
350 of the next card
750 of another card
125 of 4 cards
500 of 10 cards
etc - etc - etc.

I am not looking for imposition software - mine is great
I just need to figure the best value of "ups."

Unless:
someone knows of software that can read the meta data (xmf or whatever it is)
that is tagged to a file from an online storefront (XMPie)
and can use all of the internal data, along with the PDFs, to create the imposition.

MSD

I need to run Windows 8 along with Mavericks on a new iMAC.
What is the general conscious about the best way to achieve this?
Is Parallels the way to go? Do I need BootCamp?

Any insight will be appreciated.

MSD

Against my better judgement, I upgraded my Snow Leopard to MtLion (just to install Quark 10 - of all things)
Now my machine is basically hosed and I will buy another SSD to re-install 10.6.8.
But, until then, ... can anyone tell me how to find the "Hidden folders" in MtLion.
It seems Apple has hidden the "User > Library"

MSD

So ...

   Against my better wishes I need to Install Quark 10 on my MAC.
I do have it on a Windows 7 box - so I am considering NOT to put it on the MAC
but ...I already have it paid for.
   I ran the installer ... but it quits and tells me I need OS 10.8
and I am running 10.6.8.
-
Has anyone installed 10.8 for PrePress and is having a good time with it?

I have an all right machine with an SSD and 28GB of RAM
so I don't think that would be an issue.
I just don't want to be bummed later by buggy crap.

MSD

Could someone please send me an installer or a ink to an installer for Acrobat Professional Professional - version 9
I have the number - just can not locate the installer or disk.

Thanks,
   MSD

All of a sudden - all of our MACs - InDesign are acting incorrectly.
 - They do NOT report missing or modified links when opening a file.
 - They do NOT report missing fonts when opening a file.
(It reports both during export - luckily)
 - It is not handling profiles on photographs when importing - it is NOT honoring profiles.
Then ... once imported the links panel reports the link as having
"Document RGB" or "Document CMYK" - rather than reporting the photos "actual" profile.

Is this a worldwide occurrence?

MSD

Would anyone happen to have one of these sitting in the recycle bin
that would have a good laser unit or Laser Polygon Motor unit?

MSD

I know about getting vector files out of PS.
-
Yesterday I was playing around with trying to get vector "Smart Objects" out of PS.
I created the Smart Object and could open it through Photoshop in Illustrator - edit it and have it return to PS updated
but
when I saved as a Photoshop PDF (PDP)
all of my type retained the vectors but the smart object always ended up rasterized.
-
Does anyone know the procedure for smart objects retaining vectors out of PS?

MSD

What do you all think is the best application to clone a hard drive to a larger hard drive to install into the same machine (after pulling the old one)?

PC


MSD

Is there a method in PitStop Pro to:

duplicate all of the pages in a PDF
and then
put them after THEMSELVES
so
the document would print with the same page on BACK of itself?

so:

1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9

becomes

1-1-2-2-3-3-4-4-5-5-6-6-7-7-8-8-9-9

MSD

The new "Creative Cloud" wants to install Acrobat 11.

Is this supported by PitStop Pro?

MSD

My action takes away art and seems like it would be really dangerous on a large multi paged document where one could not watch all that is happening.

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MSD

I received a file today.
Printed sample and informed sales about missing fonts.
InDy - simply enough to Package a job.
Of course the client did not sent the fonts
(10 min)
-
 - So "they (sales)" told me to sub the fonts.
(10 min)
-
Inform sales - again -
sales bitching - this is EXACTLY what i was wanting to avoid
(informing the client that their file was all fu**ed up).
-
I went through all of the clients previous files in the archives.
So ... then .... same client fonts loaded.
(15min)
New proof showed same thing
overset type - type missing - text wrap ruined.
-
Contact client - new file.
-
New file - with "their document fonts"
same INCORRECT output.
download - load  - print
15 min
-
Informed sales
they bitchingly state they will have the client send in a PDF.
I say - I can send them our print PDF export settings.
"I'll just have them export to PDFX-1"
(what a moron)
-
PDF from client comes in.
Open and print out for sales
(10 min)
SAME PROBLEMS show in THEIR PDF.
(overset text - missing text).
-
Inform Sales
they contact client
" Well I am a newcomer with InDesign
sorry"
-
Client goes over all the problems pointed out to her in her file.
-
New file uploaded.
Process file - everything fixed on her end (almost) - all OK
(5 min)
-
This is a major company in our city - I don't get it.
The designer is going to all these parties receiving cudos for her great work on this printing piece.

Well deserved!.

Luckily I love PrePress,
MSD

Do you folks host your own FTP site on an in-house server?
What application do you use?
Do you have a link on your company web site to hit the ftp server?
I am trying Filezilla and having seemingly unsurmountable trouble trying to hit it from anywhere.
I tried MassTransit. The express worked OK but it is the free extremely limited version.
The full version is $7000 and I do not think we are enterprise enough to justify that.

MSD

Was it here I saw the other day
discussion of Bitmap images to Vectors.
I know about Illustrator
but
someone included a link to some software package
that is supposed to do a great job easily.
I can not find it.

Thanks,
    MSD

I am planning a move from a MAC mini Fusion server back to a KickButt PC server I have sitting around.
I, know in the past, (from Rampage days) the hot setup was to run ExtremeZ-IP
on the server to run AFP and mostly to resolve font transfer problems.
-
Now -- if SMB is the network connection protocol
do these "old" font issues persist?
Or,
do MAC and PC fonts act politely through SMB?

I ran a quick test
and the MAC fonts hit the PC server and showed 0kb
but
when I brought them back over to the MAC
they were complete useable fonts - all intact.

Was that just beginners luck?

Will the 0kb PC (MAC) fonts
load into Suitcase and act properly?

That ... I will be testing tomorrow.

MSD

Does any one, right off hand, know how to direct a Screen Shot (cmd+shift+4)
to a particular folder on a secondary drive
rather than the main hard drive desktop?

MSD

I'll tell you one thing that sucks.

Use the "Remove Printer Marks" in PitStop Pro
and
the action removes actual job parts.
-
Not always
but you never know when.

A different post reminded me about this
when
they wondered about the InDy crop and reg marx being so close.
Personally - I have those crop marx set to .25" and do not use any other printers marx.

MSD