a.k.a Brian Smithson, Corel User!

[PeterArnel]

Goodness Brian do u really use Corel - or are u like one of those Vintahe car drivers - who like to be "retro" as a Priner I stopped taking them seriously when I read in their manaul if u wanted to make changes to a layout just cover it with a white box ( mark u this was in about 1994 when three us were desperate to get a section of a magazine printed - only to find the ad had something nasty under the box:-)
Peter
Does anyone else use Corel I wonder - we dont see it in the UK at all . We are only Quark with a small amount of InDEsign

[annc]

Originally Posted by PeterArnel

Goodness Brian do u really use Corel - or are u like one of those Vintahe car drivers - who like to be "retro" as a Priner I stopped taking them seriously when I read in their manaul if u wanted to make changes to a layout just cover it with a white box ( mark u this was in about 1994 when three us were desperate to get a section of a magazine printed - only to find the ad had something nasty under the box:-)
Peter
Does anyone else use Corel I wonder - we dont see it in the UK at all . We are only Quark with a small amount of InDEsign

I'm having no difficulty getting printers to take InDesign files here. Even one of the small one-colour presses just up the road will take them, and do all their in-house work with InDesign Mac.

[Mike]

Originally Posted by annc

I'm having no difficulty getting printers to take InDesign files here. Even one of the small one-colour presses just up the road will take them, and do all their in-house work with InDesign Mac.

Just out of interest, are there reasons for sending InDesign files rather than PDFs?

[mact]

yes.

so things done badly can be fixed. such as PMS to White blends (bloody impossible to fix in PDF)

80-90% of the PDF files i get, from whatever application, are done wrong.

[annc]

Originally Posted by Mike

Just out of interest, are there reasons for sending InDesign files rather than PDFs?

When offered either, I find they prefer InDesign. Dunno why, unless they've received too many that wouldn't rip, or were at the wrong resolution.

In my current job, I have one client-supplied PDF that wouldn't print untill I exported it to PDF out of InDesign and placed that back in the document.

Now it prints perfectly.

[Mike]

Originally Posted by annc

I have one client-supplied PDF that wouldn't print untill I exported it to PDF out of InDesign and placed that back in the document.

I've had a few problems printing InDesign-created PDFs at 1200 dpi on my HP5000N. The job with get part way through and crash the printer even though it prints fine from InDesign. Or at least, that's the case when ussing Acrobat CS. Printing the same job using an earlier version of Acrobat has been fine.

The last time it happened I narrowed the cause down to a rogue font (a version of Times) but so far, fortunately, I not had any complaints from printers and I'm now working on my tenth book produced in InDesign.

[annc]

Originally Posted by Mike

I've had a few problems printing InDesign-created PDFs at 1200 dpi on my HP5000N. The job with get part way through and crash the printer even though it prints fine from InDesign. Or at least, that's the case when ussing Acrobat CS. Printing the same job using an earlier version of Acrobat has been fine.

The last time it happened I narrowed the cause down to a rogue font (a version of Times) but so far, fortunately, I not had any complaints from printers and I'm now working on my tenth book produced in InDesign.

That's maybe the HP PostScript clone playing up. What version of Acrobat are you creating? I'm still making all my PDFs at Acrobat 4 level. My GCCprinter is only PS 2, so I have to be careful.

I'm just happy that the current printing house will take InDesign native files. The cient says the last job 'was perfect'. Certainly nobody from the printer contacted me, so I'm believing him. <g>

[Mike]

Originally Posted by annc

What version of Acrobat are you creating? I'm still making all my PDFs at Acrobat 4 level. My GCCprinter is only PS 2, so I have to be careful.

I'm using 4 as well. So far as I remember ID's press option defaulted to that and I've never bothered to change it.

It could be an HP clone problem. After a crash all other print jobs fail till I reboot.

[PeterArnel]

Originally Posted by annc

I'm having no difficulty getting printers to take InDesign files here. Even one of the small one-colour presses just up the road will take them, and do all their in-house work with InDesign Mac.

Anne must be the Aussie mentality after drinking all that XXXX it addles the brain :-)
Peter

[annc]

Originally Posted by PeterArnel

Anne must be the Aussie mentality after drinking all that XXXX it addles the brain :-)
Peter

Only in Queensland, Peter. The southerners say nasty things about XXXX. <g>

Ann(who drinks Hahn Ice in hot weather, and no beer at all the rest of the time)