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20-08-2007, 06:17
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Pre-Flight INFO/Checking
Hey.. i have recently changed jobs and my new role now means i have to check final pdf pre-flight info in acrobat. I have got some experience with this, but i can not say that i'm not all-knowing. Does anyone have any links to some reference material? cheers |
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20-08-2007, 06:22
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Join Date: May 2007
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not too much experience of pdf prefight myself... this is old (acrobat 6) but might have some pointers. http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/ac...6ppprefpdf.pdf anti social marketing
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20-08-2007, 06:30
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389 ppm and rising
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All pre-flight means is that you ensure that all the necessary pix are included as cmyk tiffs and that all used fonts are included. That was way back when. Now stuff for print goes off as PDFs, you need to check that page size is correct, corner marks are included on each page and that the fonts show up correctly - best done on a machine which is stripped of extraneous fonts. Of course, you need to know which fonts are intended. A passage of text might look very professional using Time New Roman but that's no good if the customer's in-house font is Palatino. Use your own good common sense and keep your wits about you and you won't have to deal with an angry customer recall on 200000 catalogues! My free fonts www.utfi.net
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20-08-2007, 06:42
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I have a Preflight profile that checks for everything, from spot colours, to font embedding and everything in between. It has never failed me! Send me a message with your email address and I will email it to you. All you will need to do then is import it it through the Preflight menu! |
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20-08-2007, 06:52
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389 ppm and rising
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But isn't that a plug-in for the program which produces the PDF? Cocky's question leads me to believe his responsibility is to check the PDFs themselves. So a plug-in won't help. As for trapping, flattening and other modes of butt clenching, if it's not in the PDF it ain't gonna be in ya catalogue. If it's your job to supervise and oversee jobs in InDesign or Quark before they get PDffed, then that's another matter. Please advise! My free fonts www.utfi.net
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20-08-2007, 06:54
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this is a artwork prep guide called pass4press i have used a couple of times as some publications require it. pass4press | Home i think they use PDF/X standards.. so might also have some usful info anti social marketing
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20-08-2007, 07:04
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ok... its my job to design/artwork and sort all the pre-press shit out. Basically everything. but... in prague basically the printers were shit, they would only do one-level of separation. Overprinting was none existent. and they were of no help whatsoever. there rip was older than me... I think i have picked up alot of outdated bad habits... which needs to be fixed. Also i am back using quark which i hate and haven't used for around a yr and a half. So i am questioning my skills.. i believe there may be holes and i don't want to miss something very easy and dumb!!! So all i want is some PDF/ preflight reference material with up to date information so i can cross reference what i know with what i should know. |
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20-08-2007, 07:15
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389 ppm and rising
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Google "QuarkXPress preflight". Lots of stuff, including program downloads. This seems useful.Preflight Software and Preflight Checklist for Graphic Design and Prepress I haven't used Quark since 1998 so I don't know the latest update from shit. My free fonts www.utfi.net
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20-08-2007, 07:24
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389 ppm and rising
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It was always a frightening experience to wait for the proofs, believe me. My free fonts www.utfi.net
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20-08-2007, 08:06
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could do. could do. but not sure.. arn't most of the features in pitstop is now in Acrobat pro v7/8? anti social marketing
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