Placed Image problem solved

Both my colleague and I had problems with Adobe Illustrator CS5:
Problem:
1) AI refuses to "Place" external images.
2) Any existing AI documents with extant placed images now refuses to show them. The bounding boxes are there, but no images.
Solution:
Delete or remove the "FontExplorer X for Illustrator CS5.aip" plugin from the Adobe Illustrator > Plug-ins folder and all will be fine again.

Geoff,
Thank you for sharing.
There has been another report of FontExplorer disturbing Illy recently.
We shall try to remember.

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Clicking will put it at 100% with the upper left corner exactly where you click, just as if you clicked and dragged down and to the right in CS3, the only difference being that dragging a frame in CS3 might have cropped an image, or left a frame with empty space. In CS4 you get the whole image by clicking, as in CS3.
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It was all about 64bit-32bit versions.
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We need to isolate whether you have, possibly:
1. Problems with 3rd party software.
2. A bug in Photoshop or your system manifesting in 64 bit only.
3. Any misunderstandings of how masking and transparency work.
If you shoot a photo of someone against a light background and try to cut out the pixels in just the subject, you will almost certainly end up with light artifacts at the edges of the subject, because in reality the (light) background color blends with the subject color at the edges. Placing a masked subject shot against a light background over a dark background can be trouble, having nothing to do with Photoshop problems.
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That's probable I don't have a mac so I would not know how the drivers are updated. In this case, you could either wait for another update or go to Apple's site and report the issue so they can be aware of it and then hope an update will be sooner than later.
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Hello,
just need one advice from the gurus out here.
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regds
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If you know what line screen you're printers is using then you can calculate your minimum PPI.
The general rule has been to multiply the LPI x 2 = ppi | Which a lot of people take to assume that the LPI will be 150 in most cases, and that's where the 300 ppi for images originates.
But in truth different mediums would use different line screens, like newspapers, magazines, high-end art books etc. And the x 2 rule is a safe play, but it really should be 1.41 (or 1.5 to keep it simple).
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Art books - high end printing etc around 175 - 200 lpi.
262.5 - 300 ppi
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My InDesign program is printing my placed images lighter than illustrator.

I am trying to print a colour logo in Indesign with black type on my inkjet printer. The colours are appearing fine on screen and so is the black but when I print everything is washed out. I tried just printing a black box and it appears black on screen but in print it is grey. I have tried changing the preferences Appearance of Black to rich and accurate but that did not make a difference. Do I need to do anything in color management I am using Indesign CS2. How can I solve this problem?

Acrobat worked, thanks for that advice. I set my Convert to Profile under the Edit Menu to Color
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pdf. I would like to get this problem resolved. I normally use
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Take Care,
Jen
Take Care,
Jen
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:24:47 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: My InDesign program is printing my placed images lighter than illustrator.
Jen,
This is a problem that you have no time to fool with, correct?
When printing from InDesign and all looks hopeless, export to PDF and print from the PDF.
Why?
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Hi All,
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I was playing around with defining new text styles and they
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was in Times. I deleted all the pre-set styles trying to fix the
problem out why when I realized now newly placed images don't show
up in preview, but old images will. I can copy and paste an
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>Home page is not on this...
Several possibilities spring to mind the first of which is
you haven't
defined your site properly or at all
>previewed in browser everything was in Times
a link to your stylesheet has an incorrect path
>realized now newly placed images don't show up in
preview,
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Jo
"chas0616" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:esa2uh$h4d$[email protected]..
>I was playing around with defining new text styles and
they looked OK in
> Dreamweaver but when previewed in browser everything was
in Times. I
> deleted
> all the pre-set styles trying to fix the problem out why
when I realized
> now
> newly placed images don't show up in preview, but old
images will. I can
> copy
> and paste an existing image and it will show, but not if
I place it new.
> When
> trying to Manage Site, I kept getting a "Home page is
not on this...."
> message.
> Please help me figure out what I have done!!!
>

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Hi,
I'm having some problems with Illustrator CS2.
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Hi,
I'm having some problems with Illustrator CS2.
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This is annoying, since getting those white stitching lines doesn't really make me safe for print, and also bothers me that Illustrator slices the image into 2 or more parts without asking or confirmation.
Anyone knows how i can fix this problem?
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How many pages are we talking about? The key to file efficiency is Placing images at their final size, so you are on the right track. Let me try to help...
"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."
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"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?"
-There are a few different ways you can create a PDF viewable as a softproof. You could send the final as a Standard PDF using defaults. Don't forget to embed the fonts and leave color unchanged. What I do is Export > RGB TIF @ 150ppi > Open the .tiff in Photoshop and Save-As Photoshop PDF with a JPG compression of 8. You could do that for each page and then reassemble using Acrobat for one assembled, final PDF optimized.
"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."
-Get Adobe's Print Publishing Guide. It has enough information in it to help you wade through all of the disinformation out there. Get in touch with a couple of local print shops and have them take a look at your files. Good shops can spot problems and give you some handy tips. Not all shops will take the time, so finding one can be tricky.
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-You're welcome. Let us know how it all shakes out.

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