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• Thou Shalt Not Use Registration

  • Saturday, 21 Mar 2009, 10:03 PDT (21 March 2009)
  • By: Claudia, Claudia McCue » QuarkXPress

  Look in the Swatches panels of InDesign and Illustrator, and the Colors list in QuarkXPress, and you’ll see a mystery color named “Registration.” It’s intended for page information, registration marks, and trim marks. When we used to output film and…

• Thou Shalt Not Use Registration

  • Saturday, 21 Mar 2009, 10:03 PDT (21 March 2009)
  • By: Claudia, Claudia McCue » QuarkXPress

  Look in the Swatches panels of InDesign and Illustrator, and the Colors list in QuarkXPress, and you’ll see a mystery color named “Registration.” It’s intended for page information, registration marks, and trim marks. When we used to output film and…

• QuarkXPress Overprint Weirdness

  • Monday, 19 Jan 2009, 22:06 PST (19 January 2009)
  • By: Claudia, Claudia McCue » QuarkXPress

  It was another one of those thoroughly snakebit jobs that go wrong at every step, but at its core is a mystery concerning how QuarkXPress treats an overprinting grayscale image in an exported PDF. “Regular” overprinting objects, such as text…

• CS4 Upgrade Discount for Creative Suite 3.3 Owners

  • Tuesday, 28 Oct 2008, 19:43 PDT (28 October 2008)
  • By: Claudia, Claudia McCue » Adobe Acrobat & PDF

  Here’s a tip for owners of Creative Suite Premium 3.3, the intermediate release that included Acrobat 9: you’re eligible for a discount! Because you’ve already paid for Acrobat 9, which is also included in Creative Suite 4 Design Premium (could…

• Acrobat 9 Pro Droplet Bug

  • Sunday, 12 Oct 2008, 15:50 PDT (12 October 2008)
  • By: Claudia, Claudia McCue » Adobe Acrobat & PDF

  To speed up Preflight checks and fixups in Acrobat, you can create a Droplet out of any profile. Droplets can also be created from the nifty new Single Fixups and Single Checks in Acrobat 9 Pro. The Droplet icon looks…

• Submitting Jobs for Print: PDF or Application Files?

  • Monday, 18 Aug 2008, 19:44 PDT (18 August 2008)
  • By: Claudia, Claudia McCue » Adobe Acrobat & PDF

  Does your printer ask you to submit PDFs as job files, or do they ask you to send application files (page layout, plus all the necessary fonts and artwork)? Maybe we’re just slow here on the East Coast (or, more…

• Adobe Creative Suite 3.3

  • Monday, 14 Jul 2008, 20:33 PDT (14 July 2008)
  • By: Claudia, Claudia McCue » Adobe Acrobat & PDF

  The latest version of Creative Suite is now shipping. If you’re expecting CS4, this isn’t it. But the new Creative Suite 3.3 is still a substantial upgrade (thus the dot version designation), thanks to the inclusion of Acrobat 9 and…