August 2009
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Essential Fonts and Font Folders for Mac OS X
Mac OS X has multiple Fonts folders to organize the fonts on your computer. Where you install a font determines when and who can access it. Mac OS X has at least four Fonts folders, depending on software installation and number of users. This article will distinguish the essential folders and fonts for you.
Installing Fonts
Many fonts will be installed by the Mac OS X Installer and other...
Excellent Resource Websites | Newsletter
I’d like to share with you some excellent resource websites that I’ve found useful and informative. Checkout and bookmark any of these sites, along with PrepressX.com, to include in your searches for printing and graphics information. These and other valuable resources are listed in our PrepressX Directory.
Graphic Arts Online
Graphic Arts Monthly is widely recognized as the most authoritative...
Digital File Preparation Guide | Newsletter
This week we showcase three unique articles describing various perspectives for preparing digital files for press. Check out these articles, and more, at PrepressX.com.
Digital File Preparation Guide
Use Page Layout Programs such as InDesign or Quark
Create your document in the exact size of the final trimmed piece. For example, if you are creating a letter size multiple-page document with...
Color Palette Considerations for Press |...
The Swatches/Color palettes available in Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress can provide you with many choices for applying color in your document layouts. At PrepressX.com we will review some of the default colors as-well-as the many useful custom colors combinations and demonstrate how they are used in commercial offset printing.
Default Colors
The default colors on the Swatches/Color palettes are a...
Evaluating Color by the Numbers for Press |...
Have you ever adjusted at an image based on how it looks on your computer screen only to find that it prints differently on press? You can always tell how well an image will print on press by looking at it’s numbers. What numbers? The numbers that I’m referring to here are the percent values for each color that are measured using most any image editing program.
Evaluating Color by the Numbers...
July 2009
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Protecting Your PDF Files | Newsletter
Many of you may already know about the features in Adobe® Acrobat Pro® that provide document password protection for restricting viewing privileges. In addition to this, did you know that there are also password protection options to limit the printing and editing of a PDF document? This is available to us in the Document Properties of every PDF document.
Password Security For PDF Printing and...
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Press-Ready Settings | Newsletter
This week I updated the Adobe Settings section to include Adobe® Acrobat Distiller® 9. Just like the previous versions of Acrobat, this article describes how to create a custom Press-Ready PDF setting for use in converting your PostScript® files to press-ready PDF files.
Even though there are a number of steps, the settings are basically the same as the Adobe PDF/X-1a:2001 standard subset....
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Adobe InDesign CS4 Articles | Newsletter
I’ve just updated the PrepressX website with four new articles demonstrating how to make PDF and PostScript files using Adobe InDesign CS4. This includes how to make PDF and Print Presets.
The transition from CS3 to CS4 for these functions are simple and straight forward. To learn more, check out the following Adobe InDesign CS4 articles.
Adobe PDF Presets
The Adobe PDF Presets function...
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Publisher Help at PrepressX | Newsletter
Did you know that there is a free Microsoft® Office® Add-In that enables you to create press-ready PDF files without Adobe® Acrobat®? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could direct your Microsoft Office Publisher® clients to submit press-ready PDF files instead of their native collection of PC files? All without having to purchase any additional software! Well it is possible, we have all that information...
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A unique site devoted to anyone interested in having their graphic projects commercially printed directly from digital files or PDFs. We will continuously update references, tutorials, and...