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How to permanently rotate pdf 90 deg?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:40:56 GMT

Whenever I open a certain pdf doc it is shown clockwise rotated by 90 deg.
Ok I can de-rotate it by clicking the appropriate menu in Adobe Reader.

But is there a way to save this pdf so that it is automatically shown correctly at next opening WITHOUT having to explicitely rotate it through AR menues?

If yes: How?

How to resize my Canvas in Illustrator

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:31:58 GMT

Hello,

can anyone help me out. I would like to rezise my canvas in Illustrator and I dont know how to do that!

Why: I'de like to fit my AI design on to an other AI, real size object and the Illustrator canvas is to small to handle the design in a proper way. So my design is to large to fit the real obeject. the question is therefor how can I make my Canvas larger?

Hope for your support and help.

Thanks

Gert van de Cappelle

Best results when changing RGB to CMYK

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:41:59 GMT

Hi There,

How can I get the best results when converting a RGB to CMYK? For example, a tif visual when offset printing... Is there any programme, plug in, machine for this?

Many thanks

Converting CMYK to RGB - How to?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:43:55 GMT

Posted on Acrobat for Windows Forum this morning - then found this group
- Hope someone can help us...

We are a small non-profit working with adults with developmental disabilities ramping up a very short run color printing service for other non-profits. We print/mail newsletters and brochures and give our adults work to do in our workshop setting.

So we have purchased Acrobat Pro 9.0 - and all we want to do is be a printer of "print ready" pdf'S...

Our knowledge of graphic arts and/or acrobat is very limited - we are just users and again, we want to print out submitted PDF's to our HP high end laser (HP CP6015dn) and give our clients great color printing.

Most PDF files we receive work fine and we output what we see and that is what they get but now one client has sent us a file in CMYK and the color is off. I sent him some other PDF's we have used and he tells us our other files are all RGB so...

Can we take his CMYK file and convert it to RGB and then print it out?

If yes, can you explain it to us very simply?

Thanks

Bob

Insert video in a Lightbox in MUSE

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 20:33:07 GMT

Hi everybody,

I´m starting using Muse for a website I´m makin (I´m not webdesigner, I was making it with iWeb, but it wasn´t enough for what I need), and I´m in troubles with Lightbox widget: I want to use it to show videos instead images, but I can´t do it. Someone knows how to do it? There´s a video tutorial where adobe says it´s possible, but they doesn´t explain how. Any help will be really wellcome!

Best

Gonzalo

Best program for web design - no programming

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 16:45:05 GMT

Hi there,

I'm a graphic designer and I specialize in print design, but do web design on occasion. I have very little programming skills so it's always handed off to a developer. My quesiton is, what is the best program to design websites for the programmer? I just started using fireworks, and got really excited about the fact that the png could be interactive so that you could show how you wanted actions to appear. However... when I got to the point of doing type I realized that just wasn't going to happen. Is the best way around this to design the type layout in indesign and then import it into Fireworks? I was editing images in photoshop before importing them into fireworks so it makes sense. I'm just wondering if there is an easier way or if I'm missing something.

Cheers,

Lisa

PC users can't save PDF form data from form created on Mac

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:27:54 GMT

I'm trying to create a PDF form for a client that will be accessing the form on a PC. However, when the client opens the form, a message appears saying that any data filled in the form cannot be saved and the document must be printed. If the client tries to "Save As" a message appears saying the form will be saved without the data. This defeats the whole purpose of using PDF forms.

What can I do to allow my client to save data in the form? When I check the permissions on my end, there is no security and no restrictions.

Developer environment:

Acrobat 9 Pro
OSX Snow Leopard

Client environment:

Windows 7
Acrobat Pro X

how to change font size in a call-out tool box?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:19:36 GMT

Hi, the other day i inserted a call-out tool box in a PDF document, however i cannot find anything that can change the font size of the letters i input in that box. could anyone help? Thanks.

Sherman

CS6 Pantone Plus Library Issues

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:24:24 GMT

We are having problems maintaining color consistency for digital output (as well as color shifts on proofs) due to the recent CS6 Pantone Plus color library update.
We have had to remove the updated libraries and replace them with the previous versions due to the unexpected color differences on output.

Has anyone else been having problems with the Plus update?
Is there a good explanation of why it was changed in the first place? We want to make sure we're not missing a good reason for the revised color libraries.
Chuck

InDesign CMYK question

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:44:07 GMT

How do you prepare a document for CMYK print in InDesign?

I've already made sure that all imported images are in CMYK mode (by previusly editing them in Photoshop) - but how am I suposed to save the whole document in CMYK color mode? I tought it has something to do with Edit > Color Settings, but ...

I know how to export PDF in CKYK mode (by choosing PDF/X-1a:2003 standerd, right?), but how do you get and save entire indd file in CMYK mode?

I thought this was the right place to ask

Open PDF file with Bookmarks Showing

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:26:16 GMT

Hi - forgive me if this is the wrong forum, but I can't find a topic called "how to use Acrobat"

I need to create a PDF that will open in Acrobat Reader with the bookmarks displayed. The file will be distributed as a PDF and will not be associated with a web page.

And, if everything was perfect, I'd like that file to be open at 100% instead of the current 150%.

Is there a way to set this up?

Karen

Completely Embed Font (not Subset) in PDF several methods not working

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:12:16 GMT

Hi,

I have an Illustrator CS5 file, on a Windows 7 PC.

I have used "Save As" direclty from Illustrator, also "Print" with Distiller and finally the Acrobat Pro 9 "Preflight" "Fixups" to Embed Fonts.

This has included setting subsetting to 0% and in the "Print" dialogue when using the Distiller method, changing the font dropdown to "Complete".

I do not want to convert my font to outlines, because of the changes this causes. I do not want to subset - but completely embed the fonts.

This is driving me insane, and I really would appreicate any suggesstions. Please help!

Font Type and Size for a standard business card?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:41:20 GMT

Hi there,

I wonder if anyone can comment on the size of a font you use for a business card and the font?

I know this can depend on the font... But i have been reading that for the address it should be around 7 point and the name of the person should be one point up .. in this case 8 point.

What about the company name, i presume 10 point?

Can anyone recommend what is the best font / types of fonts to use for business cards, again i know this can depend.

I was thinking along these lines, that serif fonts are great for documents but sans-serif would be better for a modern business card because it is missing the serif.

Futura, verdana, optima and century gothic - anything else?

You trying to get a feel for what is good to get me started

If anyone can comment, i would be really grateful.

Thanks

Pantone color looks different after upgrading Illustrator...?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 17:10:49 GMT

I just upgraded from Illustrator CS5 to Illustrator CC. I just noticed that the pantone colors look different - and print different. I opened on old file from Illustrator CS5 that had this pantone color (Pantone 179), and I opened a new file that was created in CC that has the exact same pantone color. Illustrator CC is showing them differently on the screen, and when I send them to print (I work for a large format printing company that needs pantones to be accurate), the colors look different.

See the image I attached below - both of those colors are set at Pantone 179. When I print them, they look exactly like they appear on the screen - one of them much more red than the other. The one on the left is how it is supposed to appear, and that file was set up in Illustrator CS5. The one on the right was cut and paste from the file on the left into a new file and saved in Illustrator CC. Nothing else was changed.

Please help me get this problem resolved - this is going to cause a lot of problems for me if I can't get this fixed.

Thank you

UPDATE: I just tried converting the pantones to CMYK to see what happens. The original file (the one on the left in the photo attached) converted Pantone 179 to C: 0, M: 79, Y: 100, K: 0. However, the CC file (the one on the right in the attached photo) converted the same Pantone to C: 0, M: 90.56, Y: 82.8, K: 0.

Josh

12inch (vinyl) cover size.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:11:13 GMT

Hi, what are the specific measurements for designing an album cover (vinyl) for print, it's a 12 inch, also if it's gonna be used for CD and digital releases, do I do different sizes or can I have one size and it's scaled down/up to fit whatever format?

Thanks

Suggest program to make gif animations

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:57:25 GMT

Since Adobe's ImageReady is no longer in Creative Suite, I'm wondering which program to choose to make small, short gif animations? If possible - please include address where to download tutorial.

Thanks.

Best Laptop/Screen Suited for Photoshop & Color

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 04:11:33 GMT

Tried to be as specific as possible in the title. I'm looking for a portable workstation where my primary focus is painting in Photoshop, and various other 3D apps.

Does anyone have some advice in regards to what sort of specs make up a good display within a laptop, or even some newer models that live up to it well?

Thanks ahead of time, I'll write below what I've been looking at so far, and my budget.

Asus N550JV

Asus Zenbook UX31A

Asus Zenbook ZX500 ( think I found a major contender?!)

Budget: 2500-ish

Thanks guys!

How do I make a custom email link in Adobe Muse?!?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:11:52 GMT

How do you make a custom E-MAIL link in Adobe Muse? I was able to make hyperlinks for sites such as FB and Twitter, but it does not work for email addresses.

Thanks!

Chris

Logo design-which adobe product

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:17:47 GMT

WHat do you think is the best adobe product to make a site logo.

Basically i use fireworks, but i think, if i want to make an impressive logo i must turn into

in illustrator or photoshop.

What do you think?

Mysterious lines in PDF

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:29:50 GMT

So any help would be useful.

At our shop we use CS3. Usually when creating our artwork for print we use this work flow:

1. Flatten transparency
2. Save as .EPS
3. Distillation (PDF/X-1a;2001)

This creates small, strange, artifact looking lines throughout the document. These do not print and if you zoom in on them in acrobat they disappear which would lead one to assume that they do no exist. Recently we had a printer claiming that they printed out and I need to find a way to circumvent these 'mysterious lines'. They also cause a lot of problems with clients.

So any help, info, input would be helpful because i cannot find any record of this particular thing occurring.

IM: chifriedchicken@yahoo.com

What is the Adobe CC icons Fonts?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 13:14:41 GMT

Hi I will make my own icons but I didnt find to font type Adobe CC Icons? Anybody knows what is the new Adobe CC Icons Font type? This time not looks myriad "d", "r", "u" differents to myriad looks like much more "Ubuntu Mono" from TypeKits...

Best for making event flyers: InDesign or Illustrator?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:29:28 GMT

Hi everyone, I am new here. I am a novice with Adobe products, but I do have the Creative Suite. I have used Illustrator tons and am very comfortable with it. I used InDesign once to make a pamphlet.

I am part of a charity group that often puts on events. I will be making all the flyers. Printing budget is low and will probably consist of going to Kinkos and printing on A4 paper. So these flyers are really not all that involved, but I want to make them the very best that they can be.

Now my question. Is it better to use InDesign or Illustrator to make the flyers?

And as a bonus, if you know of any sites that might give me inspiration to make flyers, I would appreciate it! I try to keep my eyes peeled and learn new things all the time. I want to give credibility to our group with the flyers, and I dont want them to look cheesy or home-made. Thanks for any tips you might have!

Placing images in Illustrator for print ready files

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 13 May 2013 03:45:06 GMT

I'm designing a brochure in Illustrator that contains several logos and photos. (Yes, I know, Illustrator... I've read several forums and know that InDesign may be a better program for this, but I completely underbid this project and really need to stick with something I know for cost efficiency.)

I need to resize several images in Photoshop to place in Illustrator and I'm wondering if I should save them as CMYK jpegs, or tiffs, etc. I need the file to be the smallest it can be for upload to the printer. I need the basics on different file types and their pros and cons.

Also, when I'm sending out the proof to the customer, any tips on saving the pdf so the images aren't too blurry and the file is still sendable?

Please help!! Any other information or tips on how to prepare my file as a print ready would be great. I love to learn and really need some great resources.

Thanks!

What are the best laptop specifications for Animation?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 18:41:20 GMT

Hello,

I am looking to buy a new laptop for animation. Unfortunately I am not a "computer person" so would be really grateful if someone could please explain in simple language what laptop specifications (and why) are best for this kind of work?

Currently I animate with After Effects, Photoshop and Flash which makes my laptop crash a lot. In the future I am also hoping to do 3D animation so I need a laptop that can handle this. I know that desktops are better but unfortunately I need a laptop... any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance for your help!

Weronika

How to Match PMS uncoated to a PMS coated color

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:46:48 GMT

I am looking for help on how to match a PMS uncoated color to closely match a PMS coated color. I know this may sound counter intuitive but here is the situation.

I work for a company that has a corporate color of PMS 285. Their product comes in uncoated kraft cardboard boxes and when we switched the color to the PMS 285 U they freaked out with the color change. A bit too pastel and hard to read. They want a color (PMS 285C) that matches what they get on nice shiny, coated marketing collateral. How can I closely match a color that will be printed on an uncoated material to an ideal coated PMS color?

Hope this makes since. Thank you for your help.

Shannon

Programs for web design

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:12:14 GMT

Hi, I have CS5.5 Mater Collection and want to purchase classroom in a book to learn how to do web design, which books will I need? I'm looking at Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Flash (professional, calalyst & builder) Do I need all these? I have heard that Flash is being fazed out, is this correct and if so what program is the alternative? Thanks

Converting RGB to CMYK color

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 05:44:32 GMT

Hi All,

I have few BASIC Questions on converting RGB to CMYK in Photoshop and Illustrator. Hope could get some professional insights here.

1, Are all the DTG printers set only in CMYK color mode ?

2, If there is no difference after viewing RGB image with 'Gamaut Warning' (Photoshop), Does that mean I'll have the exact print result as monitor view ?

and Basically no need for CMYK conversion ?

3, Please list some the most effective way to convert RGB to CMYK, and keep the final CMYK color result as close as the RGB.

4, when I simply convert one RGB image to CMYK color, why Ps/AI don't allow me to save as PNG file ?

( I save the file as PDF, but I cannot edit this PDF using apple preview app )

5, compare Photoshop to Illustrator, which one result better final CMYK color image ?

Color washed out in Illustrator CS6

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 19:22:52 GMT

Using Illustrator on Mac OS 10.7.4
We've been using Illustrator for years and have come across a problem we never encountered before.
PMS spot colors appear washed out on the screen and appear washed out when viewing them in a pdf.

Customers are complaining about their proofs as well.

What happened?

Mac PDF files not readable on PC

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:32:43 GMT

I am constantly getting messages from my PC friends that the photoshop files I create and then convert to either pdf or jpg are not readable on their pc. Sometimes the files are split into two files (one very small and the other large) with the same name. The larger file is usually able to be opened.

What can I do to make my proofs easier to read for pc users? This has gotten frustrating.

Thanks for your help.

PDF 4 PowerPoint Slides On One Sheet?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:29:01 GMT

Hi,
I'm not sure if this forum can help me... I have a 60 slide PowerPoint presentation. I have been requested to save it as a PDF, but with 4 slides on each sheet so it is a 15 page document. Is this possible? Any ideas?

Thanks

Barb

Turning off Ligatures in InDesign CS5!

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:01:43 GMT

Hi, I am trying to find out if there's any way to turn off ligatures document-wide. Right now my team has to click on every character style to turn them off. We have over 80 300+ page book documents, so doing this is a pain! The ligatures are a problem when we export to Flashpaper...pdfs work fine. Please help!

How to export document to pdf with CMYK colors

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:36:24 GMT

Hi,

I'm using Indesign to create newspaper.

When I export the document to a PDF file, it is not CMYK, RGB only looks like.What can I do to create pdf in CMYK color to print? I already tried all compresions in export settings, but nothing changed.

[sory for my languade skill..]

How I can translate a english pdf to spanish (stored in the Acrobat site)?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 01:10:12 GMT

Hello every body, Im start today in this site, im upload an a English PDF and i want to know if exist a tool to translate this document

How to use FlateDecode?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:24:35 GMT

Have a nice day to all!

My name is Alexander, I am a programmer. I try to open PDF file useing Delphi 2009, but I can't do it becouse I can't decode Flate stream. I have read next documents:

Document management — Portable document format — Part 1: PDF 1.7 (PDF 32000-1:2008)

Issue on the Deflate compressed PDU format

DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3

and same other, and tried to use it information.

Also I try to use Zlib module in Delphi, but I get - "Data error".

I want to decode this part of file

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Costco labs, auto correct and exif data?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 06:58:04 GMT

I recently sent some work to a costco lab that has done good work for me over the years. Once the file is ready and sized and output sharpened, I convert to the custom ICC profile for the lab and machine and paper that I'm using, and softproof for it. this has worked fine for years, just as it works fine for the professional labs I use for my more important professional work. I work with a regularly calibrated system, because i want to be in control of the process from beginning to end.

Costco has always had a checkbox in their upload procedure for the option to have them auto correct the color. I have always opted to turn that off - because I have already made all the adjustments necessary for their machine to translate the photoshop numbers from my machine to theirs correctly -- just hit the print button, please and don't make any changes... It's already been profiled for your machine and I have made all the adjustments I deem necessary, thank you.

They have always agreed with that - until now. the recent images I sent were way off - too light, too green - horrible - I checked the profile - it was the correct new profile - all should have went well.

The Tech Mgr there told me that the problem was that i had used photoshop to prepare the images, and he told me that PS ( I'm on CS5 - and Lightroom 3 - all updated ) by default would strip the exif data from my files. Really? i thought. I've never known that to be true , plus I want all the metadata intact, so my files contain the contact and copyright info, IPTC data and all the exif data. The technician told me that was the problem- since my files DID contain exif info, their computer thought it was just any random file sent in and Costo's machine then- by default - ignored my request to NOT auto correct -- they then auto corrected the file screwing up the color. their computer/printer- a big noritzu unit, apparently ALWAYS auto corrects any files that have exif data, whether you tell it to auto correct or not.

So how does one avoid this? their upload process confirms that i chose to shut down auto correct - yet they auto correct, making things incorrect. So my question to all and anyone out there: is the solution to go into PS preferences in the file handling tab and click on: Ignore EXIF Profile Tag in the file compatibility box? It is currently clicked off. Would that fool their machine? Is that the solution to my problem?

and if I do indeed want to maintain all the exif data in my files but want to strip it just from a file I send to Costco or any lab that hash as similar issue - how would i go about stripping the exif info just from the jpeg I am uploading to them?

Anyone? ( thanks in advance for any knowledgeable answers)

Owen

AES 256 Revision 6 (PDF 2.0) Encryption

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 23:06:52 GMT

I am trying to implement decryption of AES 256 Revision 6 (PDF 2.0) as described in the ISO 32000-2 spec and having some success but getting some peculiar results that I cannot resolve and would appreciate some suggestions.

Using Acrobat X on a PC and encrypting using password encryption compatible with Acrobat X, I created a set of about 20 Acrobat X encrypted PDF tests. When I ran these through our implementation to decrypt as following ISO 32000-2 particularly Algorithms 2.A and 2.B most decrypted successfully and produced correct output. However a few failed either in the authentication phase or in the intermediate key computation stage, with the latter showing an error by an invalid decryption of the first stream of PDF encountered. Next I tried another set of different tests and also got a similar pass rate. Finally I took one unencrypted PDF test and chose the same security settings of compatible with Acrobat X, restrict editing, and printing, and allowed print and used the same password for 15 generated versions of this PDF test. 13 of these 15 resultant encrypted tests ran successfully with our implementation of the Revision 6 decryption algorithm. Two failed, with one failing a match on both user and owner key and the other failing computing the intermediate owner key.

In the past when we have implemented earlier Revision 5 256 AES, or even older compatibility versions it always was the case that you either had the software working or you didn’t. And the new PDF 2.0 2B algorithm with 64+ hashes and 64+ aes encryptions of data along with 16 byte mod 3 math computations leaves little room for error.

I believe that Acrobat when encrypting is choosing a random AES IV and all data including input /U /O /UE, and /OE strings differ. Even for the case described above of the same input test, same password, and same Acrobat encryption options. Thus the input into Algorithm 2-B will differ but the output should for authentication match the first 32 bytes of the O or U key or should result in a correct final result for intermediate owner or user key if the corresponding match occurred above.

However for the few exceptions that fail the above decryption it is not easy to determine what went wrong. Just about any change to the implementation of Algorithm 2.B breaks all working test cases instead of giving a clue as to what the issue is. The possible suspects are the new SHA-384 and SHA-512 and the encrypt code. We have used SHA-256 and the AES decrypt portion in earlier implementation of revision 5 and had no problems. The AES and hash code we are using is from Gladman¹. I was wondering what others are using? It looks like Acrobat X is using RSA BSAFE Crypto – C² at least for FIPS. Could Leonard or somebody else at Adobe tell me if this RSA software is also used in general with Acrobat X?

And I think that it would be very beneficial to have and publish a set of test vectors given input into algorithm 2.B along with correct intermediate results for each step. For each hash – including which method used per step show hash results, and also encryption step results, number of steps beyond 64 minimum, as well as final result. For the 80% of tests I have working I could produce this info. For those tests I cannot get working I would need help. Perhaps someone at Adobe or elsewhere who has had greater success than I have can help? I can provide input for the problematic tests either through this forum or privately at David.Lincoln@csr.com.

1) http://www.gladman.me.uk/

2) http://blogs.adobe.com/security/2011/05/update-fips-validation-certificates-for-acrobat-an d-reader-x.html

The best way to enlarge an image for print?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 14:06:05 GMT

Hello

I've been designing for print for several years. Occasionally I design large display posters/banners (A0, 6-sheet, billboard etc) which use a photographic image. Assuming that the image I have is smaller at 300ppi than the final print, what is the best way to enlarge the image? Based on my experience, it seems that there are three options (to make it simple, the example here assumes that my image is exactly half the size it needs to be printed at. I'm also assuming that the file I will supply to the printer will be a high res pdf exported from Indesign):

1. Set up the Indesign file at 100% size, place the photo and have Indesign upscale the image to 200%. Export a high res pdf for print.

2. Set up the indesign file at 50% size, place the photo with no upscaling by Indesign. Export a high res pdf and have the printer blow it up to 200%.

3. Set up the Indesign file at 100% size, enlarge the photo in Photoshop to 200%, and place the photo with no upscaling in Indesign. Export a high res pdf for print.

I have been advised that having Indesign upscale the image is not a good idea, and I never do this. I guess that option 3 is probably best, with Photoshop doing the work and the resulting pdf being the correct size. However, it's not always possible to do this – some posters are huge which means that the enlarged photo and the high res pdf will both be huge files, and I think also Indesign has a maximum document set up size anyway. So sometimes I use option 2.

So firstly, why is it a bad idea for Indesign to upscale the image (as I say, I never do this, but I would like to know the technical reason)? Secondly, if the choice is between re-sizing myself in Photoshop prior to exporting the pdf, or having the printer enlarge a high res pdf, which is better? When I say 'better' I mean in terms of the quality/sharpness of the end result. Also, I assume that vector elements in my design will not be adversely affected in either scenario, is that assumption correct?

Thanks

Conversion formulas from RGB to CMYK

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:26:26 GMT

Hi,

I've been writing a Colour swatch tool (in excel! hell yeah!) which allows me to pick a bunch of colours, generate complimentary colours from them, blend between 2 colours in a set number of steps and a whole bunch of other cool stuff, and then output this as a photoshop or illustrator swatch file.

As part of this tool I want to be able to covert the rgb values to cmyk. There is very little information on this on the web and what there is is fairly inaccurate.

For example,

RGB:50,128,128

Converts to CMYK 61,0,0,50 (%) using the formula found at easyrgb.com (this formula is the most prevalent one on the web/web forums)

Photoshop converts these RGB values as CMYK: 80,33,48,8 (%)

While these two colour values are *similar* the ones generated by the easyrgb formulas are nowhere near the photoshop values.

See? stupid useless formulas. (I am aware of the differences and overlap of the two gamuts)

Whilst I know that the conversion done in photoshop is done using ICC templates, and that often these conversions are device dependant, there must be a more realiable way of converting from one colour space to another using good old reliable cold hard maths.

Does anyone know what that might be? you guys at Adobe: I AM LOOKING AT YOU.

Hope you guys can help,

~silvery~

For reference I have included and commented the easyrgb formulas:

First: RGB -> CMY

C = 1 - ( R / 255 ) M = 1 - ( G / 255 ) Y = 1 - ( B / 255 )

Second: CMY -> CMYK

var_K = 1

Initally sets var_K as 1, although this is dependant on variables belowif ( C < var_K ) var_K = C if ( M < var_K ) var_K = M if ( Y < var_K ) var_K = Y

This bit finds the smallest value from the CMY range and sets this value as var_K

if ( var_K == 1 ) { //Black C = 0 M = 0 Y = 0}

If var_K (the value that K is calculated from) is 1, then all the CMY values are reset to 0

else { C = ( C - var_K ) / ( 1 - var_K ) M = ( M - var_K ) / ( 1 - var_K ) Y = ( Y - var_K ) / ( 1 - var_K )

If the value of var_K is anything other than 1 then use the smallest value from the CMY range

} K = var_K

The value of K as filtered out from the conditions above

Need help designing email blasts--what software?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 01:45:52 GMT

I'm an InDesign person, but I know that you can design something in it, but not be able to export it for use, in an email blast, that requires HTML.

Or, if I want to design something original and download it into a 'constant contact' blast.... what should I use?

I was told DreamWeaver, and I've signed up for lessons, but if it's coding all the way, I suk at that.

Someone said Adobe Muse, let's you create html easier, but how would I find users on this forum? And does it really create useable html?

Is there any other way? It just seems so weird that you spend all this time learning one program, and you can't easily convert it to html, without splicing it, which I don't know how to do either....

Any help would be appreciated.

thx.

Layered pdf opened in illustrator

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:14:31 GMT

Hi,

I have a question about transferring pdfs created in Autocad using Pdf Page maker plugin into Illustrator. Since there is no option for keeping Illustrator editabillity from Autocad, is it possible to open an Autocad generated layered pdf in Illustrator and retain the pdf`s layer structure.

Thanks.

please help me remove watermarks in pdf? ;-(

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 20:05:32 GMT

I have a PDF document that was created using Adobe InDesign CS5 Version 7.0, it is NOT encrypted, I have FULL permissions over it.

I downloaded the "free 30 day trial " of the exact same program that was used to make the pdf (adobe indesign cs5 version 7.0) and it WILL NOT open the pdf document!!! ;-(

I get a message saying, "adobe indesign may not support the file format, a plug-in that supports the file format may be missing, or file may be open in another application"... it's definitely not open in another application. Tried that already.

All i want to do is remove the watermark in the document!!! That's it.. Can someone please help me?? Thanks so much in advance!

How to insert special characters (checkmark) ?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:13:35 GMT

I am creating a table tent (4.5" x 5.5"). I want to insert "checkmarks" and then change the color. In other products this is really easy but in Illustrator I just cant figure it out !!

Please help.. [email address removed by host]

Font licensing for eBooks (epub with @font-face)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:53:55 GMT

Hello,

The ePub format supports - as you may know - the CSS2 @font-face, but Adobe's fonts aren't directly embeddable that rule.

At the moment, there are not FAQs or license terms specifically written for ePub (or other kind of ebook formats) so I'm going to refer to the currently available documents I found on the web.

A Typblography blog post (http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2010/10/web-font-licensing.html) clearly describes the difference Adobe sets between "embedding" and "serving" a font.

Epub format - unfortunately - lies in a sort of no man's land, because it is a zipped container of browsable documents (xhtml files, stylesheets, images, fonts), so it can be considered a self-contained and portable document, but at the same time, it doesn't protect the fonts from unauthorized use.

Also the Adobe Font Licensing FAQs (http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/antipiracy/ff_faq.html) partially clarify the field of discussion.

The Adobe's proprietary font obfuscation feature, supported by Adobe Digital Editions, can be easily overridden with few lines of python code.

Adobe doesn't allow for @font-face embedding but let authors access to use its fonts via specialized web font services such as Typekit.com which can't be used by ePubs because of its offline nature.

My questions are:

Can I use an Adobe licensed font (i.e. Minion Pro) in an ePub ebook using @font-face?
What kind of license or agreement should be used?
Is there a dedicated contact for licensing-related issues (the font-licensing@adobe.com address just bounces back)?

Indeed, I can already download some ePubs featuring the Minion Pro typeface. I.e: "Il fu Mattia Pascal" edited by Mondadori (the most important italian publishing company) and freely downloadable from the LaFeltrinelli store (http://www.lafeltrinelli.it/products/9788852013089/Il_fu_Mattia_Pascal/Luigi_Pirandello.ht ml).

That makes me confident that an arrangement is possible, isn't it?

I hope to hear soon from you, as I'm writing also on behalf of some others italian ebook designers.
Thank you,

Matteo Balocco

U.S. Web Coated SWOP v2....what is it really called and where does it reside?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:50:32 GMT

The default/generic CMYK of choice is described as U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2. That is also the CMYK space inclued in the North American General Purpose 2 sychronized color setting in Bridge.

But - if you download the folder of ICC profiles from the Adobe website, there is no such file inside. There is one called USWebCoatedSWOP.icc. Is that the same thing?

Also, can someone tell me where the ICC profiles that shipped with my Creative Suite programs reside on my hard drive? I'm using CS4 on a Mac.

Missing fonts, why not to choose other relatives?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:59:37 GMT

Hallo.

I have a pdf file and I want to modify it with adobe 8 professional but when I m going to delete some text the said that all or part of selection has no available system font.

When I m choosing other fonts and clivk on embed Im taking a message that says The change to a different fontwas not done because the chosen font and the font encoding in this document differ and could not be resolved

Any solution on that?

Illustrator CS5 save to jpg bug - strange white lines

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 13 May 2010 18:09:38 GMT

When I try to export my vector to jpg: Save for web and devices -> jpg with big resolution (8000x8000)appear strange white parallel lines at the jpg image. But if it (2000x2000) it's look fine

Exporting animations containing nested movieclip symbols to .avi or .mov video formats?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:36:35 GMT

Hello, this is my first post here, I've searched around on a lot of old forums on this topic and most of the information relevant to it seems really outdated.

I have an animation workflow that involves utilizing a lot of nested movieclip symbols to achieve relatively complex animtions. Ideally I'd like to be able to export my finished product into .avi or .mov for further tweaking in Premiere or Final Cut, but so far I haven't been able to get these options to work the way I need them to.

Exporting to .avi gives me a simplyfied version of my animation where none of the nested symbols play through.

I've read that if you export to QuickTime it may work the way I'd like; however, I'm running Windows and apparently you need QuickTime installed a certain way for this option to work. I installed the free version of QuickTime 7 in hopes that would solve the exporting problem, but it hasn't. I still receive the error message, "QuickTime is not available. Please make sure QuickTime is properly installed". I feel like if I could get this working a lot of my problems would be solved.

Other options I know about are...

1. Using a high quality screen capture application to record the .swf playing in Adobe...

2. Finding some sort of conversion software that will convert my .swf file to an .avi or .mov.

So does anybody know how to fix the QuickTime issue? If not, any suggestions for the two types of software listed above?

Which colour profile to use for hi-res print pdf and low-res web pdf in InDesign

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 10:44:43 GMT

Hi all,

I am creating a document in Indesign with many images and lots of colour and I want to create a low resolution pdf for the web which keeps as much of the colour as possible.

At the moment all the images are RGB. Should I change them to CMYK in Photoshop or do that when I pdf the document?

I will also be creating a high resolution pdf for print, however I do not know where it will be printed therefore I don't have any colour profile information from the printer, so I just need a good general profile to use.

Can anyone assist with information, it would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks

Juliette

Extract embedded fonts from pdf

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 15:06:15 GMT

Please i want to ask about the ability to extract embedded fonts from pdf is easy or not? because i tried to extract fonts form specific pdfs but there are fonts that not valid files, why these files not valid? are there specific technique to extract fonts from pdf?

Laptop: 95% NTSC TN vs 60% NTSC IPS for my use?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 14:03:20 GMT

I'm fairly new to photography, got a G3 in December 2011. Had nothing but compacts prior. Bought Lightroom 4 and started shooting RAW a year ago. Upgraded to a G5 last fall and just upgraded to Lightroom 5. I shoot family and vacation photos, and in particular a lot of photos of our toddler. I export to JPEG on a shared drive which I stream to a couple of HDTVs for viewing. I rarely print, and if I do, it's to frame a photo that came out particularly well at 4x6 or 5x7 or to stick it on the fridge. In short, it's all personal / hobby, nothing professional / paid / critical, although I like to do the best job I can with my limited skill set.

Historically I've been using my desktop PC w/ 23" 72% NTSC matte IPS monitor calibrated with Spyder4Pro and it's been fine. However, life changes when the baby starts walking, and I no longer have the time to camp out in the basement developing photos. After getting further and further behind, I started shopping laptops that I could use as a desktop replacement as I roam around the house watching my son, and also while traveling. Based on this, the laptop screen needs to be suitable for editing, and not rely on an external monitor.

I was looking at the Sagers with 95% NTSC matte panels. Then they released a Haswell-based model with IPS screen. I emailed Sager about color gamut, and it's only 60% NTSC. I thought that may be subpar since it doesn't even cover sRGB, so I ended up with a model with the 95% TN screen, which I've calibrated with Sypder4Pro which is stating 91% NTSC.

The laptop is nice, and has the nicest display of any laptop I've ever owned. However, vertical angles are still somewhat limited. I'm wondering how important 95% color gamut is when I don't know at exactly what angle I'm actually seeing the colors at their most accurate rendering. I believe that the slight shift I see within a reasonable range of viewing angle will probably not create any severe problems when the finished JPEGs are viewed on the TVs, but I'm wondering if the 60% NTSC IPS screen would have been a better choice.

I'm not making fine adjustments to color, I don't even know how to any real degree. I apply the Huelight Standard G5 profile on import. I might tinker with bringing out some blue in the sky on a landscape shot, or add a touch of vibrance, but that has to do more with the amount of color, not whether the color is accurate. I'm not moving tone curves around and stuff like that. I do adjust white balance, but I don't know if a reduced gamut would impact my ability to do that. It's more a matter of warmer vs cooler than whether this shade of blue meets aRGB specifications.

I've got a couple weeks of no-questions-asked return window left. On one hand, I've spent a lot of time getting all my programs installed and set up just the way I want, Lightroom is running fast, and an exchange and re-setup would be a fairly significant hassle. On the other hand, I'd like to make the purchase last on the order of 5 years, and I could justify an extra day or so if there's a compelling reason to do so.

So, does anyone have an opinion to offer? For my particular use, does a cheap IPS panel that doesn't cover sRGB make more sense than a high end TN panel that almost covers aRGB? My guess is that I could make either one work for what I'm doing, and there's probably not enough reason to switch at this point, but I'd like to hear from those who are more knowledgeable about it. Has anyone actually done any editing on a low gamut IPS monitor and what was your experience?

Thanks!

Steve