yes I know its the non USA spelling of colour... thats how we roll down this way. 

Anyway, the bosses want to create a colour swatch book to print on the indigo. We have sheets at the moment but they want something a bit easier to hold, that they could print for a few clients.

Before I dither around for ages, i thought I would just see if anyone out there has done something and how it worked out. Along the lines of a pantone book.

cheers!

yikes... all those years of touching up film... all those times i almost fell asleep on the light table...
those times hiding in the camera dark rooms and playing cards in the red light with the other apprentices.

i actually still remember it fondly

Now that i have finally replaced my dead 07 imac at home with a 2017 model, Im definitely looking at getting the affinity suite... great to hear they have got an indesign import now!

Quote from: Joe on February 24, 2020, 10:06:36 PM
It is with great sadness to learn of the passing of Matt Beals on February 15, 2020. May he rest in peace.

:cry:

Quote from: AaronH on February 17, 2020, 02:34:28 PM
The built in Acrobat Preflight profile to flatten to transparency (high res) is what fixes it for me, then an ink tac reduction in pitstop will usually fix these issues for me.

Annoying you can't just do it from InDesign when exporting, seems like that would be a good way to do it, since there is flatten settings in InDesign but oh well...

yeap I have used in the past, though i think that is only at a page level?

The pitstop rasterize is cool cos you can do it at object level with a few different options as well. i.e. just one image+gradient at a time if you want.

and yes it would be good to be able to do it from indesign, maybe one day! LOL

Quote from: pspdfppdfxhd on February 14, 2020, 06:17:39 AM
Google sheets? WTF is that? Oh no...... first there was Canva and now there is google sheets....

LOL I have actually had artwork created from google sheets.... school magazine 
its so much fun

Quote from: Tracy on February 14, 2020, 11:45:37 AM
Jinxed myself, just got one that I have to separate to fix ugh!!

always the way!

Quote from: DigiCorn on February 13, 2020, 03:39:08 PM
If the InDesign ink saturation offending items are in vector, can't you just do a find and replace and assign a more manageable build (if the vignette overlay is in ID and has a swatch assignment)? Maybe I don't fully understand the issue. Typically you can assign an ICC profile that knocks down high builds (say... everything above 280). I've been almost exclusively digital the last 4+ years, so I've gotten away from offset issues.

Actually its a digital issue, our cutoff is 300 on most stocks, some its 280, doesnt really matter so much on the offset press although I tend to try to keep them low as well.
I cant change the colour the client uses in the files... and usually I dont get the indesign files s its not an option anyway, but today for a change I got both so I thought I would try to work it out.
ICC profiles do nothing to the vignette on top of the image, they only effect the image.

The pitstop TAC reduction works perfectly, except when there is a vignette (usually black) on top of an image, and then I have to take a few more steps to get it to work; basically merge the vignette with the image or sometimes the many many images below the vignette, it can get very tricky at times... and thats where the object inspector comes in handy as well!

Something that has bugged me for awhile in Indesign, clients using black vignettes on top of colour images and causing high ink coverage, which goes through to the exported pdf, even when using the correct export settings.

Generally I get supplied pdfs files from clients and just fix it with pitstop (rasterise the vignette and image, and then run the TAC reduction on it)... this can get quite painstaking when there are a lot of images with vignettes, but at least it can now be done with pitstop and im grateful for that!

But... on occasions i get supplied the indesign file so i can start there instead and re export the file, but I have yet to figure out if there is a way to get it to work? It always exports the file with high ink. The webby net aint giving me much help. Maybe I need to flatten the images somehow out of indesign? I have tried the 'isolate blending' check box in the gradient feather box and that helps a little but doesnt fix it.

Any ideas?

We do the same on our indigo, there doesnt seem to be a way around it that I have found yet, and yes it can take hours to rip. We will often send it off before we leave for the day and it will be ripped in the morning.
We have done data up to 30,000 sheets, and at times i have just split the files to get it ripped quicker.

so if anyone comes up with ideas, that dont involve buying extra software as its not something we do a lot of these days.
Most our variable data is less than 1000 at present since we stopped doing the biggies.

I am so pleased preps is out of my life now!! such a clunky POS.

awwww isnt she such a darling!
great name too, my son loves playing 'Clementine' on the guitar.

and yeap the completely sleepless nights/days will slowly pass, expect it to be at least a year though... unless you do the crazy thing and have another one!
Gosh mine are 9 and 10 now, but it still makes me grin to look at baby photos of them and others.... congrats and try to enjoy the non talking, walking and answering back stage!

yeap, use it regularly with certain clients!

Quote from: Joe on August 15, 2019, 05:31:51 PM
Speaking of Graphic Design...I think I got a designer fired today. Last time their job was printed we got PDF's made from InDesign. Beautiful pages with no issues.

Then they hired a new 'designer'. So this time they were completely done in Photoshop. Every page was just an image and all of the body text of every page was, of course, 4 color black. So I called and gave them the whole speech about how Photoshop is not a page layout app...yadda yadda yadda. The publisher called me and told me not to proceed and he would find another designer. So yeah...pretty sure I got a designer fired today. And I don't even feel bad! :evil:

I shouldnt laugh really, but you have probably saved the world from yet another  deezigner

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Quote from: DPSprint on June 05, 2019, 06:48:26 PM
wish I could join u lot! but the timing is not quite suited to those in the southern pacific

It is worth downloading the recording and listening later. Good stuff in these webinars.

Definately, I always download to watch later... easier to find now too!