I'm using Apogee X. And I am pretty new to Apogee and pre-press in general.

Some questions: After rendering the page, is the image that opens up (on the "checkered" background) a PDF? Plate company specified that we could not send them the 1-bit tiff generated by Apogee because they are proprietary. I'm wondering if that view is of the 1-bit tiff.

So my next question is... why is the color bar not showing up on the preview pdf? If I could get it to show up, that would solve all my problems.

We tried to set up the new workflow, but what with employee turnover, we don't really have anyone who knows all the ins and outs of doing that. And if that is saving the tiff for us, we can't use it anyway.

We are trying out a new plate, and the company wants us to generate a pdf of a flat that they can use to make sample plates. We have an old version of Apogee; we create our templates in Preps and do imposition in Apogee. The first preview pdf, before rendering, opens in Acrobat. It has crop marks etc (smart marks) but doesn't show the color bar (eps). I'm able to save this, but it doesn't do me much good without the color bar. After rendering, the pdf that we can view in Apogee has the color bar, but I can't save it. Suggestions?