I just started getting this within the past week..   I cannot find a reason it is giving me this..

any one got any info on this error and what is up with the Illy PDF link that is being updated into Indesign when I get this?

I have compared an old .pdf, and a revised one that is giving the error..  I cannot find a difference other than the text edits..  so why is it telling me there is a difference in Layer Visibility??  Here's a screen grab of the error..

Yes, most of us know these, but this was pretty comprehensive and easy to copy paste for the forum and will/can help newbies..

-- A --
Abrasion Resistance: The resistance to scratching of a surface of paper by other paper surfaces or other
materials.
Absorbency: The ability of a material to take up moisture
AC: Author's Correction
Accordion Fold: A type of paper folding in which each fold runs in the opposite direction to the previous
fold creating a pleated or accordion affect.
Acetate: A transparent or translucent plastic sheet material of a variety of colors, used as a basis for artwork
and overlays.
Achromatic: The non-colors... black, white and gray.
Acid Resist: An acid-proof protective coating applied to metal plates prior to etching designs thereon.
Bichromated solutions employed in photoengraving as sensitizers provide acid resist through the action of
light on sensitized surface.
Acrylic: A water-soluble polymer used in paints to make them dry both tough and flexible.
Actinic Rays: Light exposure that affects chemical changes in paper.
Additive Colors: In photographic reproduction, the primary colors of red, green and blue which are mixed to
form all other colors.
Aerate: This refers to a manual process whereby an air stream is blown onto paper sheets to create a riffling
effect that separates the sheets as they are fed to the printing press.
Agate: A type size of 5 1/2 points. Reference, agate line.
Agate Line: In newspaper classifieds, a measurement denoting 1/4 inch depth by one column width. 14
agate lines = one column inch.
Air: Large white areas in a design layout.
Airbrush: A compressed air tool that dispenses a fine mist of paint or ink; used in illustration and photo
retouching.
Albion Press: A hand operated printing press made of iron.
Album Paper: A wood pulp paper with an antique finish used for pages of photo albums.
Albumen Plate: A surface plate used in the lithography process; it has a photosensitive coating.
Albumin Paper: A coated paper used in photography; the coating is made of albumen (egg whites) and
ammonium chloride.
Alignment: The condition of type and or art materials as they level up on a horizontal or vertical line.
Alkali Blue: Also called reflex blue. A pigment used in carbon black inks and varnishes to improve luster.
Alley: A term for a random, coincidental path or a row of white space within a segment of copy.
Alphabet Length: The measured length (in points) of the lowercase alphabet of a certain size and series of
type.
Amberlith: Red-orange acetate used for masking mechanicals when photographing for plates. The amberlith
area appears black to the camera, and prints clear on the resulting film.
American Paper Institute: An organization that correlates all paper related information.
Angle Bar: In "web-fed" printing (printing on rolls of paper as opposed to single sheets), an angle bar is a
metal bar that is used to turn paper between two components of the press.
Aniline: Oil-based solvent (quick drying) used in the preparation process of dyes and inks.
Animal Sized: A technique of paper making which hardens the surface by passing the paper through a bath
of animal glue or gelatin.
Anodized Plate: In lithography, a plate manufactured with a barrier of aluminum oxide, which prevents
chemical reactions that break down the plate; it provides optimum press performance.
Antigua: An eleventh century Italian script typeface.
Antiquarian: A handmade paper (53 x 31 inches), largest known handmade paper.
Antique Finish: Paper with a rough, sized surface used for book and cover stock.
Antiskinning Agent: An antioxidant agent used to prevent inks from skinning over in the can.
Apron: The white area of text (or illustrations) at the margins which form a foldout.
Aqua Tint: A printing process that uses the recessed areas of the plate; ideal for graded and even tones.
Aquarelle: The hand application of color, through stencils onto a printed picture.
Aqueous Plate: Water soluble plate coatings, which are less toxic and less polluting.
Arc Light: A light source produced by the passing of electric current between two electrodes; used in the
production of plates in photolithography.
Arms: Those elements of letters that branch out from the stem of a letter, such as: "K" and "Y".
Arrowhead: A symbol shaped like an arrowhead that is used in illustration to direct a leader line. Reference,
leader line
Art Paper: A paper evenly coated with a fine clay compound, which creates a hard smooth surface on one or
both sides.
Art Work: Any materials or images that are prepared for graphic reproduction.
Art-Lined Envelope: An envelope that is lined with an extra fine paper; can be colored or patterned.
Artwork: All illustrated material, ornamentation, photos and charts etc., that is prepared for reproduction.
As To Press: In gravure printing, (recessed areas of plate hold ink), a term used for proofs showing the final
position of color images.
ASA: A number set by the American Standards Assoc., which is placed on film stock to allow calculation of
the length and "F" number of an exposure. Reference, "F" numbers.
Ascender: Any part of a lower case letter which rises above the main body of the letter such as in "d", "b"
and "h".
Assembled negative: Film negatives consisting of line and halftone copy which are used to make plates for
printing.
Assembled view: In illustration, a term used to describe a view of a drawing in its assembled or whole
format.
Atomic regions: The area's in which Adobe applications split up a page to calculate how transparency effects need to be flattened.
Author's Alterations (AA's): Changes made after composition stage where customer is responsible for
additional charges.
Autochrome paper: Coated papers that are regarded as exceptional for multi-colored printing jobs.
Autolithography: A printing method whereby the image is hand drawn or etched directly onto lithography
plates or stones.
Autopositive: Any photo materials which provide positive images without a negative.
Azure: The light blue color used in the nomenclature of "laid" and "wove" papers.

So about a week ago our plates began having lines(well more like gaps) running from side to side on the plates.  I got in touch with Fuji tech support and found out that if the lines are running side to side instead of gripper to tail that the problem is in transmission of information from the server to the platesetter. So, one of only 3 issues could be the culprit.  The PIF board on the server, the PIF board on the platesetter, or the cable connecting the two.  We had tech support ship out all three and when they came in I started by simply switching the cable.  PROBLEM SOLVED!  Whoa!  So I immediately began to think, VARMINTS.   Sure enough, I pulled the old cable out of the ceiling tiles to find(see pictured below)..   I hope that bastard was shocked to death!  The cable is a $2500 PIF cable and so therefore one expensive ass execution!  The cards are being shipped back today.





 

Edited for typo.

I know most of the people here don't have Facebook accounts but I feel it necessary to warn as many people as possible.

The email looks like a legit email notification from facebook from someone in your friends list.

Don't open any links in any emails sent to you from that "friend" that says something about "Are you sure this is your first acting experience?"

It takes you to a geocities site with a fake video loaded that then automatically says your Flash is out of date and tries to install a .exe file 

My sister just infected her work computer and when it came to my wife and I, my wife's AVG picked it up and she called me.  ... and then called my sister..  she said her roommate and about 20 friends have all been infected in the past 10 hours or so...


worm/generic_r.ct

...all by myself this weekend. YAY!!   :cheesy:   Too bad I'll just have to do it all again next month when TF v6 comes out..   :angry:    but that's the nature of the beast, yes?



OK, so we should have gone to TF SE(v5) when it came out awhile ago, but y'know..     :undecided:

So a customer asked me today if I knew of a way to "trade in 300+ postscript fonts"(that he purchased way back when, his words not mine) for newer open-type.  I have looked and looked and I dont think you can, do I tell him he is SOL, and will have to repurchase all the fonts he needs in order to switch over? 

I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this but thought I'd ask anyway..

Thanks.

 

edit: I think over the past two years we've been getting a monthly from him, he has slowly started having more and more corrupted fonts and fonts missing when he sends a disc over. He uses Quark 6.5 and says he uses the "Collect for Output" but it has been getting worse and worse every month with missing fonts..  luckily I have him a collection in my archive and I am able to go back to those when needed, but Im afraid a different version is going to sneak in there and bite me, so we started a dialog about his fonts today leading to the above question..

Not sure if this goes in Illy, but it makes the most sense to me. The file is from Illy CS3.

Our art director just got burned on some stuff printed at another printer..  Here's the scenario: 

a 4 page insert and the PDF was fine (we must not have 
caught the error on printer proofs) but after it printed  on one of 
the coupons the brown text on the beige background was dropped off....

She sent me the files(both the original .AI and her .PDF she sent to the printer.)

In the .AI file I found that the "beige background" was set to PMS 616 with a "Hue" blending mode. The text on top of it was set to a CMYK mix for a brown. There's only one layer, and on that one layer, the text is infact on top(front of) the beige back ground.  There are 3 of these in a row.  The middle one, is the one that disappeared on press.  I started going through the .PDF next with Pitstop and here's what I discovered(im attaching pictures to show.)

In pitstop, when I click on
the type(attached picture 1) the type is designated as spot
616, and so is the box behind it(attached picture 2), this is
what caused it to disappear.  The other two coupon headers
show the type as a CMYK mix(attached picture 4).


So, my question is, any of yous got any idea why Illustrator did this to the text when saving out as a .PDF?  Anyone else seen anything like this?  Crazy mannnnn..  Crazy.

I'm pretty sure I've read it on here, but can't find it and want to make sure it gets it's own attention, If someone knows the thread it's in just link it..

My boss called today with a 2nd case(this week) of color disappearing in a graphic with a low-res proof I had emailed to him. But my end was showing color as it should be in Acrobat.  It got me thinking about Reader not having OVERPRINT PREVIEW turned ON as the default.  ...sure enough it was the culprit with these two proofs this week.  The graphic that had this happen is built with 2 spot colors and IS NOT set to overprint, but READER STILL NEEDS IT TO BE ON to display correctly.

People who have customers who use READER to view your pdf proofs, TELL YOUR CUSTOMERS TO TURN IT ON.(Check Box under Preferences>Page Display)


Adobe, (not that you'll bother to listen THIS TIME EITHER) PLEASE MAKE IT THE DEFAULT to have overprint preview turned on when you release v9 commercially!!   :angry:

Anyone around these parts using DesignMerge with Indesign for Variable Data? 

Bossman hired in a guy to do this VD stuff, and what do you know we don't have the program he had at his old job. So of course he doesn't know how to do it in any other program, so its now up to me to learn it on the fly and help this guy out(I was asked by bossman, so I cant really argue that the dude should learn it himself)..    :shocked:   I don't mind, I want to learn, but this guy has no knowledge of Indesign at all, or DesignMerge(which we havent bought yet, we are just toying with demo at the moment)  just trying to see who I can turn to for some help around here if I cant get it figured out from the toots and manuals..

Thanks folks.

What are you Spekta users using as your color bar?  I am giving the screening the 3 month trial right now and my pressman just asked me if there was a colorbar we could use..  I have a color bar, but it is just a basic one I built of 100% and 50% of each process color. Pressman says other than reading density, its worthless. If there was slur he wouldnt be able to tell, and also if mechanics had to come try and track down a problem they wouldnt have anything to use..  I scoured the  internet a bit including GATF and am coming up empty.. 

any help would be much appreciated..  Thanks.  :smiley:

edit: spoke too soon, I found the ones you can purchase from gatf..  :rolleyes:   still dont know if those would work for Spekta..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBJQ5085kSo   



 :laugh:    :angry:      :undecided:

Im at my wits end here.  Service rep has been in 4 times.  Plates still coming out crooked.  They punch straight, and then load to the cylinder crooked and get past the plate detection sensors and so when finished burning, the image is cocked on the plate by 1/64"- as much as 1/16"..  the problem is that its intermittent, and there is no pattern, we burn two different size LHPJ plates, and it does it on both..

we have mostly ruled out, dirty rollers, bad plate detection sensors, bunched up tape, bad plates(out of square), clamps not opening wide enough...

ultimately the problem is that the plate is not getting all the way down in the lead clamp on the home side..   


just fishing for ideas of something "else" to look for that may be causing this..   


Please B4Print, help me salvage some of my hair. Im too young to be this bald.   :cry:

http://www.makeyourmark.org/meet/gentile.shtml

 

 :embarrassed: i thought this site was interesting and didnt know how else to share it?


Im a whore.   :cry:

What's the best way to sell a desktop PC that is just 2 yrs old(eMachines T6520 - spec link )?    Ebay?   I know I wont even come close to getting what its worth(simply due to age), but I would like to not get burned either..

what about selling an old blueberry iMac?   or even a 1998 Compaq?..    Should I try ebay or should I look for a computer store in Dallas area that buys used?


any suggestions?..   


If I do decide to sell(trying to figure out a way to get one of them Modbooks - loaded of course)  I'd stick them here(B4P) first just to give you guys a crack at them first...

thanks guys and gals.

Didnt know where to put this, but Indd CS3 in combination with Font Explorer, and Trueflow3 is having some irritability with dropping characters.  Its random(so no specific fonts, or effects have been identified as guilty), proof prints fine, plate doesnt.  Im still working production from CS1(mainly because I trust it) and I havent been burned "on-press" yet, but thought I'd throw this out there as a heads up..

If there are already other threads about this with other workflows, please link..   

like someone said a week or two ago(I think alma)..  this is why CS3 is not ready for full production use.

 

forwarded to me the other day by _Vee, although its not time for me to move yet so thought I'd share the info.



(Job ID:28466)
Job Title: Prepress person
Contact Information

Allegra Print & Imaging
Quick Printing Company
Mike Powell
Phone: 828-253-6886
Fax: 828-253-6892
Email: mike@allegraasheville.com
191 Charlotte Street
Asheville,  NC   28787

Work Site: www.allegraasheville.com

Please apply online!

Job Description
We are looking for an experienced pre press person, both platforms. 
Direct to plate also. We are a fast paced offset and digital shop. We 
are proud of the quality of work we produce and have many wonderful 
long term working relationships with our many clients. Deadlines, a 
fast pace, accuracy and multi tasking can't bother you, as a matter 
of fact, we thrive on it.
Benefits, retirement, vacations and holidays.

Job Details
Primary Skill:  Graphic Design Production
Posted: Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Location: Asheville, North Carolina
Country: United States

Type of Work: Direct Hire
Work Shift(s): 1st Shift

edit: thanks for moving to the correct forum, Joe.

Why in the world would they make the step and repeat function keep the selection on item that was stepped, instead of how it has been in past versions where the "new" selection is the stepped item?   Make sense?

anybody know how to change this back to like it was in CS2 & CS1?  Im officially insane now..

???


 

so, I dont fully know how to explain the problem, but the press cannot register one unit(not always the same unit) on 70# book, but registers fine on 100# card..  pressman exchanged plate on Mag(cant register) with the cyan, and the cyan began not registering. makes it sound like the punch isnt punching the plates exactly right...   but our other press doesnt have the same problem, and it does register when running cover weight...   anyone got any suggestions of something to look for??

we have already had a tech out looking at the press, and he says he thinks its moisture in the airlines causing an inconsistency in the pressure, but our pressman disagrees continuing to state its the punch, because it followed the plate when he swapped it to another unit.. but the damn cover weight registers..   

HELP?!!   

Anybody else having problems converting to grayscale with pdf's produced in Indd CS3??   this just started..  I get two newsletters a month from the same customer, and recently they upgraded to CS3..  They design their NL for web and print at same time, but send in the NL in 4c process and I had been converting in Acrobat to grayscale to print 1/1..   nothing is working to convert these files to grayscale??  I havent found a solution, just curious to if anyone else has seen this...   ???


edit:  Acro 7 & PSP 6.5

just got an error that told me to call enfocus support!!   

edit 2: to get the error I was editing a remap color action, just trying to find a solution.

edit 3: OK, I got it to convert.  but now Im getting that error(see attachment below) everytime I edit ANY actionlist, and when I try to close the Action List panel..   Me thinks the computer has gone screwy..   

is this a permissions or .plist thing?

...not sure where to put this..   Maybe under Enfocus?  but more of a general question..

with that said, and without digging through the "fine print" in the EULA..   

My inquiry: What is the legal stipulations for moving an application from one cpu to another..

The specific scenario: I want to move Acro 7 and PSP 6.5 to my new iMac, because I am not feeling the Acro 8, nor are we upgrading to PSP 7 yet.  But I hate to keep using my PPC G5 for preflight, just to then move everything across the network so I can use INDD CS3 for layout. 

So, is it legal to remove the programs from the PPC and install them on the iMac, giving me what I need on one box?  I would still just be at ONE seat, which is what I'm licensed for..

Thanks for your advice and help..