Do you print pagination dummy from XMF? How do you do it?

[DigiCorn]

Hmmm, I have to check Prinergy to see if they have a blind folio option. Would lessen my talks with bindery about page numbering.

Not that he can count above 10.

Yes Preps does have the blind folio option though I think they just call it page numbers. :laugh:

That's interesting. I'll have to look into how to do that.

[Ear]

Tracy, in absence of page numbers, you can use the Blind Folio feature. Bindery loves me for the use of blind folios.

I use it occasionally but a lot of my jobs only have an 1/8 1/8 gutter the page number doesn't really fit
does it?

hmmm... good point. You can put them where you want: head, face, foot, etc.. usually there is room somewhere to stick a little page number.

I would figure centered at the foot .125 from trim would work in 95% of the work we do here.

Indeed.

[Joe]

Hmmm, I have to check Prinergy to see if they have a blind folio option. Would lessen my talks with bindery about page numbering.

Not that he can count above 10.

Yes Preps does have the blind folio option though I think they just call it page numbers. :laugh:

That's interesting. I'll have to look into how to do that.

That may not still be in Preps 6 or 7. There used to be a script that I know worked in 5.3.3. We discussed it in a Preps thread here:

Page numbering outside bleed

[frailer]

It is mostly content accurate but I have seen it output differently than the ripped plate files (rare occurrence).

pretty much our experience. At one stage some months back, we had PDF Export (from XMF) problems. I started Exporting PDFs from the rendered Black Magic file, so RIP integrity. They're big, but I have a preset in Acrobat XI under Optimize. gets 120meggers down to 5~6 MB. Zoomed in they still look pretty good, though you get a bit of JPEG artifact creeping in t that level.. Clients wouldn't. have a clue one way or the other.
I do these routinely now; a bit more of a fiddle, but worth the extra rendered safety.

[Diddler]

It is mostly content accurate but I have seen it output differently than the ripped plate files (rare occurrence).

pretty much our experience. At one stage some months back, we had PDF Export (from XMF) problems. I started Exporting PDFs from the rendered Black Magic file, so RIP integrity. They're big, but I have a preset in Acrobat XI under Optimize. gets 120meggers down to 5~6 MB. Zoomed in they still look pretty good, though you get a bit of JPEG artifact creeping in t that level.. Clients wouldn't. have a clue one way or the other.
I do these routinely now; a bit more of a fiddle, but worth the extra rendered safety.

I've got a few different PDF settings made up for my Blackmagic proofs. Mostly I use 100dpi, JPEG Compression Quality 80, Zip level 9. It will generate a small file that is easy to email and looks good enough for a client to approve. Cause we all know they never look at them.