RGB values of Rectangle InDesign CS4 js

Hi,
I need to return RGB values of a Rectangle, but the fillColor gives me swatch ID only. How I can converted to RGB values.
var myRGB = myFrame.fillColor;
myRed = myRGB.id;
Thank you for your help.
Yulia

This is want you want.
var myRGB = myFrame.fillColor;
myRed = myRGB.colorValue;
alert (myRed)
Shonky

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RGB conversion to CMYK InDesign CS4 js

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When we export InDesign into pdf through a script we assign to it a specific color profile. And at first it was converting all RGB files to CMYK as well. Then after one of the crashes my InDesign stopped to convert them. Is there a way to fix that? And maybe I need to give to you more specific information. Please let me know.
Your help is highly appreciated.
Yulia

May be you should ask that in Scripting Forum: http://forums.adobe.com/community/indesign/indesign_scripting
I guess you will more likely get answers...

Test: Using Crop marks in indesign CS4 with Epson 3800 Mac 10.5.7

Jun 19, 2009 9:35 PM
Crop marks using indesign CS4 with Epson 3800 Mac 10.5.7
My crop marks and pages are printing larger than my document sizes. My paper size is 13x19, so I should have crop marks at the exact corners of the page sizes. But indesign is printing the entire document larger. So my document which is 11x14.75 is now printing 11.25x15.5. All my settings are correct. So, is anyone else using an Epson 3800 with CS4 indesign having issues such as the above? And can I ask (beg) a few of you to do a test print with crop marks and let me know the results?
My workflow has been completely stalled because I can't get my pages to print the right sizes with the crop marks at the right measurements. I'm printing a photo portfolio on the Lumijet double sided paper and "when" it did work awhile back sometime several months ago, the finals looked great. I've already reinstalled both the Epson 3800 driver and the Indesign CS4 software, but the results are still the same.
So, here are my settings:
document size: 11x14.75
in the print panel:
Printer: Epson 3800
Setup: Paper size: Super A3/B13x19, scale 100% width & height, page position Centered
Marks & Bleed: Marks: "Crop Marks" checked. offset: 0, weight: .25, Bleed and Slug: Use Document bleed settings, include slug area. The bleed is 0 for top, bottom, left and right
Color Management: Document profile: Adobe RGB, Options: Indesign handles colors, Printer Profile: (A custom made profile using Xrite for the 3800 with Lumijet paper)
The settings on the Epson 3800
Epson 3800 Printer
Presets (set for the profile mentioned above)
No Color management
Sometimes, on a whim, the printer and indesign cooperate together like good little children should. But not often. And I can not conclude why they are nice to each other sometimes, but given the same detailed data at other times, they fight.
If anyone could run through a similar process using indesign with a photo layout and setting up the printer settings for both the Epson 3800 and in the indesign program and let me know their results, I would value your conclusions very much. You don't even have to waste paper or ink. Finally, after wasting so many pages of paper and of ink. I deleted the photos from the page, and printed it blank with only the crop marks for me to measure if it was coming out right or not.
Thank you for any response. And feel free to call me if you want to vent about Epson 3800's or about Indesign CS4 anytime! I'm up late.... 646 256 8853.
Thaddeus

I specified the paper size as strictly 13x19, no boarderless, no retain size. Same problem. I also did as you suggested below. The pdf document does remain true to the document. As a pdf doc. I changed the color mgmt to Adobe rgb 1998. It looks okay, but not as lively as I get when printing correctly with my color mgmt working and in sync.
Your final question about simply using photoshop. Well... I might go back to it and give up on Indesign if this is the case that it won't simply crop my documents to the sizes that I input them to be cropped as. But, I am using Indesign so that I can create a page layout that I can't do in Photoshop. My folio is about 25 or more pages with double page spreads. I am printing on a two-sided Lumijet paper and my folio was custom designed to be cut out at 11x14.75. If and when it is printed correctly, I am printing on both sides of the paper and trimming it to exact size.
It sounds as if you have exhausted the potential problems and don't have a clear explanation for why the doc isn't printing correctly in Indesign either with the color mgmt. or the document sizes. I'll try one more print using a different color profile similar enough to get at minimum, an okay print. If it doesn't print at least okay, then it isn't most likely my profile..... Okay done. Crazy. The color is inaccurate, but for some reason or another, the document size printed correctly. It measured exactly 11x14.75. What I have done during this period of time is:
First) I did as you suggested and turned the Print to Adobe PDF 9 and created a print there. I measured it and it did measure correctly. I didn't love the color, but... at least it is measuring correctly.
Second) I turned the Printer back to Epson 3800 (I'm beginning to think that this simple gesture was what caused the printer to print correctly) I didn't change any settings, but I did make sure that they were set correctly as before. The paper size was set to 13x19. When I make sure this setting is right in the "printer" dialogue for the Epson 3800, and then switch back to ID, the printer dialogue in Id changes to "Define by Printer." But I changed nothing, other than the profile to an older one that I used before. The color is still inaccurate, but at least for two prints just now back to back, the measurements were correct. What to do? Lol.
Thanks again for all of your time spent trying to resolve this issue.
Sincerely,
Thaddeus

Photos look different (bad) when placed in InDesign CS4

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There's a discrepancy in the way Photoshop and ID display images on the screen. I wasn't aware of this before.
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http://www.zenodesign.com/scripts/IDPS.png
You can check the RGB values of the screen capture in Photoshop and there is virtually no difference—I could only find an occasional 1 gray level in 1 channel shift.
If you are seeing a color change with a High Quality display setting then chances are you have a color management issue.
Syncing your Color Settings doesn't guarantee matching color between the programs because you are just syncing the program's Working Spaces, and they don't necessarily color manage the documents (assigned profiles override the Working Space). If you are assigning profiles in PS, the assigned profiles need to match your ID doc's assigned profile (which could be different then the ID Working Space)

[Ann] QR Code for InDesign CS4 and up

Ever needed to create a QR code? There are literally hundreds of free QR code generators on the web, but they all have the same drawbacks:
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2. It's typically an RGB image, so the cautious designer will start up Photoshop to convert it to a monochrome image.
3. .. so you get a file to store somewhere ..
4. ... and after seeing four of them you cannot remember which QR code said what ...
5. .... and, you cannot use such site in a batched environment (well, maybe some people can by building a proper URL, call the website, wait for a response, etc. I bet it's difficult for your average scripter.)
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Enjoy!
Based entirely on Patrick Wied's implementation of a basic QR Code generator. Patrick Wied dutifully notes
I do not guarantee any resulting QR code generations or detections, use this application at your own risk! - this project is just a study project (non commercial).
and so I advise to always check your generated code using a good QR Code reader.

To give back to community, here is the script to generate QR codes for business cards created by data merge
It reads text frames starting with MECARD:, empties them and places QRcode rotated 15 degrees counterclockwise. Enjoy!
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here is a MECARD template for you:
MECARD:
N:<<Last>>,<<First>>;
TEL:<<Direct>>;
TEL:<<Mobile>>;
EMAIL:<<E-mail>>;
NOTE:<<Position>> at <<Company>>;
http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/service/developer/make/content/barcode/function/applica tion/addressbook/index.html

Crop marks using indesign CS4 with Epson 3800 Mac 10.5.7

My crop marks and pages are printing larger than my document sizes. My paper size is 13x19, so I should have crop marks at the exact corners of the page sizes. But indesign is printing the entire document larger. So my document which is 11x14.75 is now printing 11.25x15.5. All my settings are correct. So, is anyone else using an Epson 3800 with CS4 indesign having issues such as the above? And can I ask (beg) a few of you to do a test print with crop marks and let me know the results?
My workflow has been completely stalled because I can't get my pages to print the right sizes with the crop marks at the right measurements. I'm printing a photo portfolio on the Lumijet double sided paper and "when" it did work awhile back sometime several months ago, the finals looked great. I've already reinstalled both the Epson 3800 driver and the Indesign CS4 software, but the results are still the same.
So, here are my settings:
document size: 11x14.75
in the print panel:
Printer: Epson 3800
Setup: Paper size: Super A3/B13x19, scale 100% width & height, page position Centered
Marks & Bleed: Marks: "Crop Marks" checked. offset: 0, weight: .25, Bleed and Slug: Use Document bleed settings, include slug area. The bleed is 0 for top, bottom, left and right
Color Management: Document profile: Adobe RGB, Options: Indesign handles colors, Printer Profile: (A custom made profile using Xrite for the 3800 with Lumijet paper)
The settings on the Epson 3800
Epson 3800 Printer
Presets (set for the profile mentioned above)
No Color management
Sometimes, on a whim, the printer and indesign cooperate together like good little children should. But not often. And I can not conclude why they are nice to each other sometimes, but given the same detailed data at other times, they fight.
If anyone could run through a similar process using indesign with a photo layout and setting up the printer settings for both the Epson 3800 and in the indesign program and let me know their results, I would value your conclusions very much. You don't even have to waste paper or ink. Finally, after wasting so many pages of paper and of ink. I deleted the photos from the page, and printed it blank with only the crop marks for me to measure if it was coming out right or not.
Thank you for any response. And feel free to call me if you want to vent about Epson 3800's or about Indesign CS4 anytime! I'm up late.... 646 256 8853.
Thaddeus

You need the InDesign forum.

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All, I'm new to Indesign Scripting, and I'm hoping someone can help me with the following add xml tags in my xml indesign cs4 files.
I have IDML (ETMV2) xml Indesign CS4 files. But i have lots of powermath equation without xml tags. So i want how i can insert xml tags.
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Hi,
John Hawkinson thank you so much your suggestion.
I am new this type of discusion (on this page). So i think anybody could not replay my answer. So i repost my question.
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I know the path is still retained somewhere, because the link pallet UI in InDesign shows path, and the path is there...
Anyone have any ideas?
>>
id:25785,
size:298164,
asset URL:"",
link xmp:link xmp of link id 25785 of image id 21318 of rectangle id 20575 of page id 20565 of spread id 6605 of document "AR09_1_006_006v4.indd" of application "Adobe InDesign CS4",
asset ID:"",
asset etag:"",
edited:false,
needed:true,
link type:"JPEG",
parent:image id 21318 of rectangle id 20575 of page id 20565 of spread id 6605 of document "AR09_1_006_006v4.indd" of application "Adobe InDesign CS4",
file path:"", --in cs2, the path would still be here...
index:1,
name:"01_77509_TR_927.jpg",
object reference:link id 25785 of image id 21318 of rectangle id 20575 of page id 20565 of spread id 6605 of document "AR09_1_006_006v4.indd" of application "Adobe InDesign CS4",
label:"",
editing state:editing unknown,
version state:version unknown,
date:date "Saturday, March 14, 2009 5:12:37 PM",
status:link missing

CS2:
id:11759,
size:260181,
asset URL:"",
link xmp:link xmp of link id 11759 of image id 11755 of rectangle id 9610 of page id 9604 of spread id 9593 of document "ack.indd" of application "Adobe InDesign CS2",
asset ID:"",
asset etag:"",
edited:false,
needed:true,
link type:"JPEG",
stock state:link is not stock,
parent:image id 11755 of rectangle id 9610 of page id 9604 of spread id 9593 of document "ack.indd" of application "Adobe InDesign CS2",
file path:"Graphics1:Cat Apparel:AR09_FallPrev:All Images:JPG SELECTS:3_12-3_13:77508:77508_DG_297.jpg",
index:1,
name:"77508_DG_297.jpg",
object reference:link id 11759 of image id 11755 of rectangle id 9610 of page id 9604 of spread id 9593 of document "ack.indd" of application "Adobe InDesign CS2",
label:"",
editing state:editing nowhere,
version state:no resource,
date:date "Friday, March 13, 2009 5:16:21 PM",
status:link missing
CS4:
id:12636,
size:260181,
asset URL:"",
link xmp:link xmp of link id 12636 of image id 11755 of rectangle id 9610 of page id 9604 of spread id 9593 of document "ack.indd" of application "Adobe InDesign CS4",
asset ID:"",
asset etag:"",
edited:false,
needed:true,
link type:"JPEG",
parent:image id 11755 of rectangle id 9610 of page id 9604 of spread id 9593 of document "ack.indd" of application "Adobe InDesign CS4",
file path:"",
index:1,
name:"77508_DG_297.jpg",
object reference:link id 12636 of image id 11755 of rectangle id 9610 of page id 9604 of spread id 9593 of document "ack.indd" of application "Adobe InDesign CS4",
label:"",
editing state:editing unknown,
version state:version unknown,
date:date "Friday, March 13, 2009 5:16:21 PM",
status:link missing
So - to summarize....
CS4: file path:"", status:link missing
CS2: file path:"Graphics1:Cat Apparel:AR09_FallPrev:All Images:JPG SELECTS:3_12-3_13:77508:77508_DG_297.jpg", status:link missing
Ack.....

Importing xml with xslt in InDesign CS4

Hello All,
i need someone's help who's an expert at xml and xslt features of InDesign CS4.
i work in publication, besides our magazines we produce yearbooks with lots of repetative information fields in them. we get the data in xml fromat which we flow in to InDesign. the xml files are very simple, here's an example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
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<Story>
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<Company_ID>
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   <Personel_text> Abdul Raquib, chief Executive <Personel_text>
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</Company_ID>
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etc.
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so we created an xslt file that shoud get rid of these two unwanted elements (obviously the xml file above was pointed to this xslt file)
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<Country>
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      <xsl:value-of select="Personel_text"/>
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</Story>
</Root>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
but it doesn't work. could someone tell me what's wrong with the xslt file? or what would the correct xslt file look like?
Thanks everyone!

Here's the sort of thing I mean in more detail.
First, the XML file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="transform2.xsl"?>
<Root>
<Country>
<Country_name>Afganistan</Country_name>
<Company_ID>
   <Company_Name> Kam Air </Company_Name>
   <Company_Code> 1 </Company_Code>
   <Address_text> 1205 Qalla Fatuha </Address_text>
   <Address_text> P.O.Box 456 </Address_text>
   <Address_text> Kabul </Address_text>
   <Address_text> 22004 </Address_text>
   <Address_text> Afganistan </Address_text>
   <Telephone_text> Telephone: +93 20 2200 108 </Telephone_text>
   <Fax_text> Fax: +93 20 2200 110 </Fax_text>
   <Email_text> E-mail: [email protected] </Email_text>
   <Website_text> Website: www.flykamair.com </Website_text>
   <Personel_text> Abdul Raquib, chief Executive </Personel_text>
   <Personelmail_text> ([email protected]) </Personelmail_text>
   <Job_code> A1 </Job_code>
</Company_ID>
<Company_ID>
   <Company_Name> Another Company </Company_Name>
   <Company_Code> 2 </Company_Code>
   <Address_text> Elswhere</Address_text>
   <Address_text> P.O.Box 123</Address_text>
   <Address_text>Another City</Address_text>
   <Address_text> 22005 </Address_text>
   <Address_text> Afganistan </Address_text>
   <Telephone_text> Telephone: +12345678 </Telephone_text>
   <Fax_text> Fax: +12345678 </Fax_text>
   <Email_text> E-mail: [email protected] </Email_text>
   <Website_text> Website: www.dfhdfh.com </Website_text>
   <Personel_text> dfhdfhdfhdfhdfh</Personel_text>
   <Personelmail_text>dfhdfhdfhdfh</Personelmail_text>
   <Job_code> A2 </Job_code>
</Company_ID>
</Country>
     <Country>
<Country_name>Albania</Country_name>
<Company_ID>
   <Company_Name> Number 3 </Company_Name>
   <Company_Code>3</Company_Code>
   <Address_text>Somewhere in Albania</Address_text>
   <Address_text>Freedonia Avenue</Address_text>
   <Address_text>Whatever the captial of Albania is called</Address_text>
   <Address_text> 88888</Address_text>
   <Address_text> Albania </Address_text>
   <Telephone_text> Telephone: + 666 666 666 666 </Telephone_text>
   <Fax_text> Fax: + 777 777 777 777</Fax_text>
   <Email_text> E-mail: [email protected] </Email_text>
   <Website_text> Website: www.albaniar.com </Website_text>
   <Personel_text>Ludwig Wittgenstein, chief Executive </Personel_text>
   <Personelmail_text> ([email protected]) </Personelmail_text>
   <Job_code> A1 </Job_code>
</Company_ID>
</Country>
</Root>
Note that I have renamed the XSL file "transform2.xsl". I have got rid of the "Story" tag, and I have nested the tags more appropriately, with a new tag "Country_name". Here's the XSL:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="/">
<Root>
<xsl:for-each select="/Root/Country">
<Country>
<Country_name><xsl:value-of select="Country_name"/></Country_name>
<xsl:for-each select="Company_ID">
<Company_Name><xsl:value-of select="Company_Name"/></Company_Name>
<Address_text><xsl:value-of select="Address_text"/></Address_text>
<Telephone_text><xsl:value-of select="Telephone_text"/></Telephone_text>
<Fax_text><xsl:value-of select="Fax_text"/></Fax_text>
<Email_text><xsl:value-of select="Email_text"/></Email_text>
<Website_text><xsl:value-of select="Website_text"/></Website_text>
<Personel_text><xsl:value-of select="Personel_text"/></Personel_text>
<Personelmail_text><xsl:value-of select="Personelmail_text"/></Personelmail_text>
</xsl:for-each>
</Country>
</xsl:for-each>
</Root>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
(That file should be saved as "transform2.xsl" to match the link on line 2 of the XML.)
Hope that works -- Jeremy

Printer spreads in InDesign CS4 to PDF

I have created a 12-page booklet in InDesign CS4. My printer only has CS3 and says they can't open the InDesign file I sent them, even though I sent a .inx file (made from exporting the file as cs3). I sent them a press quality pdf and they said they cannot use that because it is not printer spreads.
Can I make a pdf of printer spreads? When I choose Print Booklet, I only get choices to print to my printer.

Whenever the words printer and do your own imposing are put together, my mind goes to full-service copy shops or digital printers.
I use "printers" like this all the time, and they basically use better printers than my office can afford and have a few other extras for folding and binding. It can be useful, but it isn't offset.
IF this is the type of printer you mean, imposing yourself isn't so unusual. They often aren't set up for that, or will charge extra.
I use print booklet to generate the PDF to whatever standard they need. (I sure miss InBooklet.)
Again, if it's a copy shop setup, a flattened PDF is the way to go, and perhaps even RGB (many copy shops don't have ripping software).

Scroll speed increases in InDesign CS4

I just installed InDesign CS4 on my Toshiba NB505 netbook running Windows 7 Starter. The scroll is driving me nuts. When I use my touchpad scroll, the first few lines scroll smoothly, but then the speed increases to jump several lines with every touch. The document I'm looking at is only one page, but I can't get to even the halfway point before it starts jumping. This appears to be the only program this happens in. Acrobat scrolls fine; my system mouse settings are fine. I'm hoping there's an option in InDesign I'm just missing.
Please help!

You'll do yourself a favor if you convert those TIFFs from 16-bit to 8-bit before opening them in InDesign. InDesign can only handle 8-bits of those file. I'm not sure how it handles 16-bit TIFFs but for 16-bit PSD files it reads the 8-bit composite saved with the file.
Your files will be considerably smaller, and will preview better.
The value of 16-bit is in making image adjustments BEFORE saving the file for other applications.

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How to create a smallest file size pdf (suitable for upload to a website) from indesign CS4 document which contains multiple illustrator CS4 illustrations.
I have chosen the "smallest file size option" but the pdf file is over 30MB, can anyone help please.
Thank you

One trick is to
Set the placed graphics to have a transparency of 99.9% (you can do this with Find/Change and select Objects)
This is enough to force the graphics throught the Transparency Flattener
Next set the Transparency Blend Space to RGB (Edit>Transparency Blend Space)
Next set a custom Transparency Flattner Preset Edit>Transparency Flattner
Next
Use File>Export and choose
Smallest file size
PDF Compatibility Acrobat 4 (PDF 1.3)
In Advanced Section - go to transparency and selec the new Flattener Preset you created.
*this will convert your vectors to raster, but it should reduce your file size

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Hi there,
I have built a number of simple images (rings with solid colour, solid colour with a gradient effect applied etc.) in Photoshop Extended CS4 and then saved them as tiff images at 300 ppi CMYK/16bit files. I have then placed them in an InDesign CS4 document and they have come up with yellow pixels. I have noticed that when I scroll through the document that the areas I'm scrolling into come up a similar colour until I stop scrolling and my machine catches up. I have ensured that my display in preferences is set to the highest setting and still the image is dirty.
Can anyone help out a novice please?
Cheers,
Philamon

You'll do yourself a favor if you convert those TIFFs from 16-bit to 8-bit before opening them in InDesign. InDesign can only handle 8-bits of those file. I'm not sure how it handles 16-bit TIFFs but for 16-bit PSD files it reads the 8-bit composite saved with the file.
Your files will be considerably smaller, and will preview better.
The value of 16-bit is in making image adjustments BEFORE saving the file for other applications.

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Something strange is happening in an InDesign CS4 document: All of my my objects that use RGB color swatches appear darker (or grayer) in the document than the RGB swatches themselves. It might be that all of the objects are converting to CMYK and I'm not getting the true RGB colors within this document. Oddly, when I copy an object from this document – say, a simple shape with 100% color fill – into a new document, the object renders correctly with RGB in the new document. That makes me think I've got a universal setting within the original document that is converting my colors strangely. (Potential clue: In the new document, when I click on an RGB swatch, the Swatch Options box shows the Color Mode as RGB, making the color correct. In the original document, when I click on the same swatch color, the Color Mode says System (Macintosh). But when I switch it to RGB, I see a warning icon referring to Out of Gamut color, and when I click on the Gamut correction, it renders the RGB swatch as the off-color I'm trying to avoid.) Is there a universal setting change I should make in the original document so my colors render correctly on screen (I'm trying to use the Web Color Mode)? Thanks!

Brilliant, Peter, thank you. I wouldn't have figured that out on my own. Oddly, the Edit Menu settings had been modified and I had to search to even find the Transparency Blend Space menu. Once I did and reset the Menus, I could switch the CMYK to RGB (no idea how that got switched), and the colors are as they should be. Thanks so much!

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Good morning,
Could you help explain and possibly resolve an issue I'm having with an InDesign CS4 pdf file where the text and image drop shadows (40%) are printing as solid black blocked shapes from a large format printer. The file encompasses 1 overall image, 1 image with drop shadow, 3 text frames with drop shadow effect applied to the text and 1 group set of simple rectangular and ellipse objects with a glow.
My colleagues in graduate school experienced the same with their files and the output bureau's rasterized the pdf file in Photoshop where it printed out with good resolution. Shouldn't this be resolved first in InDesign rather than rasterizing the file?
I appreciate any help and insight you could offer myself and my colleagues.
Thank you, Kathryn

The printing service uses Acrobat 8 Pro and HP large format printer. My InDesign CS4 document is in the color mode of RGB and color type as Process. I saved it as a pdf file using the standard settings as follows: Preset: High Quality Print, Standard: None and Compatibility: Acrobat 4 (PDF 1.3). Are there options I should be paying more attention to when creating the PDF file? Also, I was reading up on Peter Spier's response links.
This brings me to the next question...I'm creating a photo book for grad school with approximately 40 pages of images (RGB, 300dpi) with feathered drop shadows. What would be the best settings to use when exporting as a pdf file for printing services?
Thank you for your help.
Kathryn

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