Text for Professional Printing

I am preparing a newsletter that will be sent out for professional printing. Will Adobe's "Open Face" fonts work or do I need to download post script fonts from somewhere.
I appreciate your help.

Open Type Face fonts are cross-platform, they work on both Mac and PC. It's better to use these so that when your file changes hands to different platforms, then the font can be installed and used without hassle (in theory).
If you use File>export and choose PDF the fonts will be automatically embedded (depending if it's allowed in the EULA of the font, it usually is but some fonts don't allow it). The font embedded in the pdf is for viewing and printing purposes, unless the person on the other end has that font they can't change the text.
You should send the printers the version of the font that you used anyway, just to be sure. You can use File>Package to collect the fonts you've used. Compress this to a zip folder and send it along with the PDF or the files you're sending to the printer.
Be sure to include any fonts form EPS files too. As the font won't be embedded in EPS.
If you're sending a PDF talk to the printers about what the best settings are and how to proceed with making the pdf, including bleeds, colour profiles, etc.

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File format for professional printing

(In case it's relevant I'm using CS2, but I think it probably doesn't matter.)
I have some logos that I'm publishing for people to use for a variety of purposes. I want to keep the number of file formats to as few as reasonably possible in order not to confuse everyone. My question is, what vector-based format should I use for professional printers?
I originally assumed that .ai would be too narrowly supported (for instance, I'm advised that Quark can't read .ai files) so I opted for .eps, thinking that this would be recognised by virtually every graphics program. However, I've since discovered that eps doesn't handle a critical graphical element as I'd thought it would:
For the sake of simplicity (rather than getting too involved in the actual logo design), imagine a white circle with a standard drop shadow outside it fading smoothly away the further you get from the circle's edge. This is supposed to sit on any coloured background, with the parts of the shadow gradient that aren't grey (if that makes sense) being transparent. The trouble is that, apparently, in Quark (and maybe other programs for all I know), this shaded area comes out with a white background. I've mocked up an approximate comparison - attached - of how it ought to look and how it actually comes out.
The upshot of all that is that, as far as I can tell, eps is not the right format. So I come back to my request: can anyone recommend a file format which Illustrator can produce that is:
- vector-based
- compatible with all common graphics programs
- able to handle faded drop shadows correctly?
Thanks,
Giles.

Aarmed wrote:
CMYK is always preferred, as there's no such thing as a printer that uses RGB inks. Switching color spaces can end badly.
Agreed for printing CMYK is preferred but, i gather that there are some digital printers that prefer RGB files... hence my caveat.
however rips with color precise elements that can hit things like PMS colors require vector art with embedded swatches.
Whatever the method, if you have a tiff file, you're safe. But, it's not flexible except for downscaling.
A pdf is generally preferred, as even if the sender forgets to convert the fonts, you can always open the file in Photoshop and have the file be read accurately.
Forget to convert fonts? In a tiff? What are you talking about?

Best settings for professional printing quality .pdf from Microsoft Publisher file?

Hello,
I have created a couble of design documents in Microsoft Publisher, and would like them professionally printed. The printer who will print them has asked me to send him the artwork as a .pdf, with crop marks, color density bars and registration marks.
I have Acrobat X Pro, and have tried to use the print AdobePDF function from within Microsoft Publisher but I am struggling to get the best quality result with all the printer marks. Can anyone suggest what are the best setting for a professional .pdf?
I have chosen 'Press Quality' print settings and that helps to make the images look good. But I cant make it work with CMYK? The Adobe printing function doesnt seem to like the 'Composite CMYK' selection needed to make the printing marks available?
Help!
Thanks,
Liz

Try the "Smallest Size" Preset. As a side note, you can reduce the ppi from 300 to 150 in Image > image size (resample on) to reduce file size and keep quality.
Gene

Setting for professional printing

I am using the trial version of ipages to see if it will work for our yearbook this year.
I am used to using MS Publisher. The publishing company needs us to have our pages
flattened with a 300dpi and CMYK. Is this possible with pages? I sent them a test page and they said
that it came up smaller than a 8.5 x 11. Any reasons why?
Thank you,
Suzanne
Arizona

If you export to PDF (best quality, print to pdf or print to pdf-x), the images keep the original resolution they had when you imported them to Pages, so if they have 300dpi, that bit should be cool.
Text is vector graphics, so that should be cool too.
For inserted shapes, I unfortunately do not know.
And you will have a problem with the CMYK requirement. There is no clean way to create CMYK straight from Pages files.
In theory, a PDF-X file should work, as it contains colour profiles for all included objects, and that should be enough for RGB pictures. In theory.
In practice, it seems more people have had success exporting to PostScript format and then converting that one to PDF. I do not know if it is best to do that yourself, or if you want to hand the PS file over to the printer and see if s/he can do something of it.

Running text for canvas printing

I am trying to create a 16x20 canvas to print for my daughters room. What I am trying to do is type her name in a text field in InDesign and have it run without automatically breaking to the next line.
For example, this is what i want to accomplish:
dison madision madision madi
son madison madision madiso
n madison madison madison m
adison madison madison madi
When i try to do this, either InDesign breaks to the next line or it continues and the text disappears completely.
Any help with this would be much apprceciated.
This is the concept i am trying to create:
Thank you,
Jose

There may be other ways to do this, but what worked out involved adding a space between each letter of the name, and en-space between each name, created a character style that applied a large negative tracking, then a find/change to all spaces to apply that character style. Paragraph set to Left Justify in the screenshot. Full justify caused soem recomposition. Either way should work with some tweaking on your part.

Is Pages Good Enough For Professional Printing?

I'm looking to do an Large Format Brochure (11" x 17") single fold and I've been using Pages for the mock up and layout. I was thinking that I would need someone to recreate the design in Quark, or Pagemaker, but now I'm wondering if I can do it all in Pages.
The printer that I plan on using is PSPrint (http://www.psprint.com/) and according to their offset printing specs and template, I just have to provide them with a 300dpi PDF. From what I've tested, exporting to PDF with quality set at "Best" I get a 300dpi file.
I haven't tested my output with photographs yet since we haven't purchased the final images and are using comps, but am I wrong in thinking that Pages is good enough for this project?
Template: http://www.psprint.com/DOWNLOAD/templates/brochures/brochurehalffold_11x17front.pdf
Thanks in advance!

There is no way to save out of Pages to pdf without flattening the transparency.
Proposition: In any save path, transparency is flattened in saving.
Test of proposition: Apple Pages '08 and Apple Mac OS X 10.4.11 as platform.
1. Launch system software and application software.
2. Insert first composition frame, select Apple Hoefler antiqua at 24 US pt, enter 'Type', leave default colour, leave default opacity.
3. Insert second composition frame, select Apple Hoefler antiqua at 24 US pt, enter 'Transparency', change default colour to rubrication red, change opacity to 50%.
4. Select e.g. File > Print > PDF > Save as PDF, name file 'Test', and select folder.
5. Launch Acrobat Professional 6 (first version with ISO 15930 PDF/X-3 verification), check the PDF version (: 1.4), check at high magnification (: no rasterisation), check that the source character string can be synthesised (: it can).
As posted previously, if transparency is applied, PDF 1.4 is automatically configured unless the path is ISO 15930 PDF/X-3 that does not support transparency (PDF 1.3 has an opaque imaging model, not a transparency imaging model). This is a simplistic test, but it is nonetheless a test.
Because Apple Quartz has applied transparency since 2000, and because there the matrix of system versions and application versions is somewhat monstrous, the notion of testing is somewhat notional .
/hh

Pages: PDFs for professional printers

I hope this may help Pages users who struggle with making PDFs for professional printshops.
Pages provide several options to produce PDFs. However, not all are suitable for professional print shops. For instance, 'Export to PDF' option under File menu will give you PDFs that look okay on screen, but will not break into four colours (CMYK) needed for professional printing.
One efficient way of preparing Pages files is by using the ColourSync utility.
1. In your Pages document go File - Print. Print dialogue window opens.
2. Click on the third pop-down menu bar. Go down to ColorSync.
3. In ColorSync dialogue second pop-down menu bar is called 'Quartz Filter'. Click on it and go down to 'Add filters...' ColorSync launches and a Preview pdf of your document opens after a few seconds. In the top left corner of the Preview there is an icon with red, green and blue filters. Click on it.
4. 'Filters' dialogue window opens. Click on the triangle next to the third option 'Create Generic PDFX-3 Document'. At the bottom of the window click on + to create a new filter which will be your configurations choice for producing PDFs for printers. 'Untitled' option appears at the bottom of the list.
5. Double click on it to change the name of the option. Click on the little triangle to the right of the 'Untitled' and a choice of option opens. Go down to 'Add PDF retouch component' and when options open choose PDF/X-3.
6. Click on the little triangle to the left of your 'Untitled' and you will see that a new 'Create PDF/X-3' submenu has been added.
7. Click on the little triangle to the left and a choice of PDF settings appears. Now here, on the fourth line you have 'Destination Profile' drop-down menu. If you choose 'Generic CMYK' you can start producing PDFs already colour separated for professional printers. Next, go further down to 'Flatten Transparency'. By default it is checked and resolution is set at 72 dpi. That is good enough for the internet and for e-mailing pdfs. But for professional printing you need a much higher definition.
8. Next step: click on your preview pdf, at the bottom left there is a choice of filters - a drop-down menu bar. Click on it and you will see your 'Untitled' at the bottom of the menu.
9. Close Filters dialogue window, close preview, and go back to your Pages document. Click Print under File menu and in Print dialogue window go to ColorSync again. Click on the Quartz Filter menu bar and you will see that the 'Untitled' filter with your PDF settings sits there.
10. Now, follow the Print - Save as PostScript - Create PDF route, but in a slightly modified way:
- Open Print dialogue;
- Choose ColorSync and set Quartz Filter to yours - e.g. 'Untitled'.
- Under PDF menu choose 'Save as PostScript'
- Launch Acrobat (or drag the PS file onto the Acrobat icon) and 'Create PDF from file' under Document menu or Open the PS file under File menu.
Changing PDF settings allows you to prepare ready CMYK converted files for printers. It may look cumbersome, but, mind, you only have to adjust your PDF settings once to find what best suits you, and then it's just sliding down to ColorSync and clicking on your settings.
FrankBe has described the use of ColoSync for preparing PDFs on this forum. I am adding here a recommendation to use the PostScript stage to convert Pages files to PDF. A fuller version of this method is on http://i-work-in-pages.blogspot.com.
Sashura
iMac, iBook Mac OS X (10.4)

Thank you very much for this detailed tutorial, Sashura -- it is greatly appreciated!

Advice For Someone Using A Professional Printer For The First Time

Hello everyone
1. I'm doing some posters and flyers for my club using Pages. We've got them looking how we want on my home inkjet printer but now we need someone to print out large quantities. I've never used a professional print service before. There are simply loads of posts on this topic but I wonder if there is anyone out there that does this a lot and can tell me how they do it. I was hoping to initiate the definitive Professional Printing FAQ thread.
2. Reading the numerous posts, there are lots of terms that I don't understand like 'bleeds' and 'pantone'. Understandably, print is a whole new world of technical terms. Can anyone recommend a good introduction to all this on the web?
Thanks

I don't know of a good basic FAQ for printing, but I can try to address some of your issues.
What is a "large quantity", IanB? Tens, hundreds, thousands? In my experience this is probably the most critical issue, since it pretty much determines the printing method used (and thus the cost). Anything under about a thousand copies will these days likely be printed "digitally", which essentially means run off on a colour laser printer. In my experience, as long as you are not fanatical about colour accuracy, this method is very forgiving of the way the source file is set up, and most houses will take standard PDFs. It is much more expensive on a per-unit basis than offset printing, but there is also little/no "set up" cost, which means that for short runs it is often far more affordable in terms of total cost.
Once you get to big runs, where you need offset printing (presses that use metal plates for different colour inks), things change a fair bit, as you have to deal with colour separations and possibly spot (Pantone) colours as well. The setup costs for this kind of printing can be very substantial (making metal plates is expensive), but once set up, the cost per unit is far less than digital printing. If this is your first time out, I'd suggest either avoiding going this route, or finding a very understanding print shop that is willing to hold your hand through the production process.
As for bleeds, that refers to when objects on your document go all the way to the edge of a page. The problem with using bleeds is that they require the printer to print the page on a larger physical piece of paper, with the bleeding objects slightly over the desired edge, and then trim that paper down to size, cut so that the bleeding section is cut through (to avoid a white unprinted edge). But because the cutting is not always absolutely accurate, you need to leave space between the edge of the page and any material that absolutely has to be on it (e.g., text), so that the trimming will only cut away some of the bleed, but not the critical material.
Bleeds make setting up (and printing) your document much more complicated, and you will be much better off if you can avoid bleeds for your first experience doing professional printing. If not, I'd again suggest that you shop around for a print house that says they'll be willing to walk you through the process of how to format your document to do this.
I'm sure others here that are more experienced in the printing process can point you to more comprehensive resources, or give you more detailed advice.

How to get black text in Aperture for offset printing?

I have a lot of text in my Aperture Books.
60 pages is like 300USD plus from Apple store!
Offset printing for 1000 copies is 3 USD each (and I am happy with that lower quality).
This is what my printer says:
The files for offset print generally should be prepared slightly different
then for digital printing.
I'm talking about the text.
Each black text (on the cover, inside pages, numbers of pages) should be
prepared in one black colour. Now is separated on 4 colours. Of course we can print it as it is but I'm sure that the final effect will
be not good. The black letters will be "fuzzy".
Is it possible to change some settings? (I get the same in Pages when I create PDF:s)
Help!!!
Stefan
Do I have to learn Indesign?

StefanGson wrote:
I tried to save as PDF-X and then I opened the generated PDF and if I use Acrobat
Advanced->Print Production and Output Preview and hold the cross over my black text I still get values for CMYK
I guess thats how you check it?
Hi, Stefan
I would suggest talking directly with the person you're going to deliver to and ask them exactly how they want it delivered, for example, fonts, pdf type... they usually have a spec sheet you deliver to and then pick the PDF from the print options in Aperture.
victor

Highlight text for Print

I am trying to find a way to be able to highlight text in a document and and then print it with the text highlighted (as you would when reading an article and marking thru important points with a pen highlighter) Also how would I highlight multiple but different text lines so that they all show? I can't seem to find a key that will allow it. (ie. control or option key)
Thanks for your advice,
Glen

ApleWorks doesn't provide for any method to directly "highlight text for printing," or for display on a monitor, for that matter. The 'highlighting' you see after dragging across a line or block of text is an indication that the text is Selected, and may now be manipulated, but tat highlighting will not appear on a printed page.
You can "place a colour block behind" the text to create an effect similar to running a hi-liter across the text on a printed page, it's fairly easy, and the result will print.
Show the Tools palette (Window > Show tools, or click the red toolbox at the lower left of the document window).
Use the Rectangle tool to draw a rectangle that just covers the text you want to highlight.
Use the Fill formatting button then the color palette to select a highlight colour. Repeat using the formatting button then the color palette to set the line colour to the same value as the fill colour.
Copy the rectangle so that you can re-use it.
Go Arrange > Move to back to place the rectangle behind the (now highlighted) text.
Still in Draw mode (you should have the Arrow mouse pointer—if not, click on the Selection tool {arrow} in the tools palette), Paste another copy of the coloured rectangle, drag it to the next line of text you want to highlight, and adjust the length to cover the text to be highlighted. Move to back as above. Repeat as necessary.
NOTE that these rectangles are not part of the text, but floating objects. If you edit text above the highlighted portion, change fonts or size, or change style (eg. to bold), the text to be highlighted will move, but the rectangles will not. Best to leave this highlighting until you've finished otherwise revising text.
NOTE2: When resizing small rectangles like this, it's easy to change their height when trying to change only their length.
TIP: When you have one the right size for the text size and font you are using, select it, then go Options > Object size... and note the height of the object, reported in the second box in the right column. For subsequent highlight rectangles, after adjusting the length to fit the text to be highlighted, open the Object size dialogue, enter the correct size into the Height box, then press tab to confirm the entry.
Regards,
Barry

How to print artwork/text for CDs and CD case

I’m posting this in both iTunes and GarageBand, since I’m not sure which is more appropriate.
I want to create sleeves, or jackets, or whatever they’re called for my CD cases. Does anyone know of a good program and materials that would work for this?
I want it to be capable of doing the following:
1) import artwork, and/or a photo, and print it on the front cover;
2) be able to incorporate printed text on, or over, that;
3) be able to include text for the inside of the cover (maybe a small photo or two, or artwork, on that inside cover (to list tunes and instruments played, for example);
4) include compatibility to print on round paper that would adhere to the CD itself...along with some kind of little “thing” that would facilitate placing that, with some kind of adhesive I guess, onto the CD;
5) and, be compatible with OSX 10.3.9 (Panther).
Your advice, suggestions, deeply appreciated.

To print the Jewel case for the CD in iTunes:
1. Create and name the playlist you want for the CD
2. File > Print
3. Select the "CD Jewel Case Insert" button on the top of the window
4. Select the style of CD Jewel Case insert you want from the pop-up list in the bottom of the window and read the description of the style and look at the picture of the style to understand what you'll get.
To print onto the CD itself, you have three choices:
1. The old fashioned round sticky label. There used to be many versions of this software available from many company's complete with software and labels for about $10-$20. These are great for making nice labels, but as mentioned in another post, can throw off the balance of the CD in the player and can in some instances make the CD unplayable. As a result, they're not as readily available nowadays. Try Office Depot or Office Max.
2. Buy a burner that prints directly onto the CD. As mentioned, this can be expensive.
3. Buy a printer which has the "print directly onto CD" option included. This is a little pricer than the average printer, but printers are pretty cheap nowadays so that's not all that bad.

How to create Standard text for terms and conditions of po print form

Hi anybody,
I want create Terms and condtions inside smartforms PO FORM , how do i create terms and conditons and how use font size? I don't want hard code inside smartforms , I will create seperate texts for terms and condition after i include inside smartform.
How i will do ? anybody please tell me.
Thanks
S.Muthu.

Hi Subramaniyan,
                         U an create an include text node in your smartform.And terms and conditions is the header level text,so i suppose you have to give the inputs as follows :
Text Name         &**-EBELN&
Text Object       EKKO
Text ID              xxxx
Language          &**-SPRAS&
is the data at your end .To simplify more follow the following.
1> go to your purchase order from me23n
2> open any purchase order and click on the terms and conditions text.
3> go to GOTO option of the text.and click on the HEADER.
4> U will find the attributes of the text which you will have to pass to the Include text in your smartforms.
The long texts arestored in STXH table.
Reward Points if useful.
Cheers,
Deepthee Kasal

EH&S WWI for GLM print request processing

Hi all,
we installed EH&S WWI for GLM print request processing scenario, following the note:"1394553", but when we try to print we receive this error from WWI:
Start Function 'WWI_PRINTREQUEST_CREATE'
Initializing parameters
Receiving data from client
   calling RfcGetData returned 0
    receiving data lasted: 0.0 sec.
    Retrieving print request data from RFC interface
    Using Temp Directory E:\WWI\TEMP\BSV100000000000062
   Delete files in E:\WWI\TEMP\BSV100000000000062
    Creating text file E:\WWI\TEMP\BSV100000000000062\r000000000062.val
    Writing data to text file 39 lines, 1009 characters
    Updating print request status from 0 to 1
    [DB time] Writing print request lasted 9 ms
Start processing command 'Create print request' in synchronous mode
Creating print request 000000000062
WwiSapDms::retrieveDocument: RFC error when calling ABAP function moduleRFC connection is not Unicode
WwiSapDms::retrieveDocument: RFC error when calling ABAP function module
key     : RFC_ERROR_SYSTEM_FAILURE
message : See RFC trace file or SAP system log for more details
Reading SBV document IB0120510 from Cache failed
    WwiCacheRead resulted with -1
    Updating print request status from 1 to 5
    [DB time] Writing print request lasted 4 ms
##### Command 'Create print request' finished with status E #####
    Storing ERR file E:\WWI\TEMP\BSV100000000000062\l000000000062.err into DMS succeeded
    22 lines
Sending data to client
   calling RfcSendData returned 0
    sending data lasted: 0.0 sec.
Elapsed time : 0.1 sec.
We don't understand what kind of RFC or what part of customizing we have to check, could you please help us?
Thanks,
Christian

Dear Pugal
we are not using GLM + and I am not sure about the technqiue used there to handle load balancing. Regarding general WWI setup I assume you know this Note: EH&amp;S: Availability and performance of WWI and Expert servers
On the top there is a further SAP Note abvailable which might be of interest. This is referenced here:
http://de.scribd.com/doc/191576739/011000358700000861002013-e
May be check OSS note: 1958655; OSS Note 1155294 is more related to normal WWI stuff; but may be check it as well. May be 1934253 might help better
May be this might help.
C.B.
PS: may be check as well: consolut - EHS_MD_140_01 - EH&amp;S-Management-Server einrichten
The load balancing of synchron WWi servers is donein the "RFC" layer, therefore you have no inffluence here, for asynchron WWI servers you can do a lot to manage the WWI load balancing by using "exits" etc.

More text options in Print Module

It's frustrating to be able to do just about everything in LR - but not quite. I'd like more text options for the printing module. For example, when I'm printing a limited edition print, I put the edition number in the bottom left corner, under the image, within the border of the print. The title goes in the middle, slighty larger font, and then possibly a watermark.
I can use the Identity Plate to create a nice looking title, but the Photo Info will only print in the middle with no options for positioning it anywhere else, or no options for other fonts.

I would second this proposal..... with a serious passion. I think it is unbelievable that Adobe will not provide us with the option to print the metadata with our images.
The current metadata print options are in the dark ages, a joke and an insult to anyone trying to put a proper caption on a printed image. For example, one cannot currently control the postion or font of a basic caption, never mind a considered template which might incorporate copyright, date, author, etc.. I also make folios (ala Lenswork). Unfortunately, a detour to PS also means that this must be done manually, rather than using a template. Adobe have all the tools to make this work, many of them are in the Slideshow module, so already the code is inside Lightroom. It is so sad that a company like Blurb can provide these tools free of charge in free software, but Adobe seem incapable of providing these basic features. I was disappointed they were not in version 1, frustrated when missing from version 2 and apoplectic when not in version 3. I might excuse the omission if I could build a template in PS which allowed me to place text from the metadata into a formattted page layout, but this is not possible either. So despite the fact I have purchased both Lightroom and Photoshop, and paid for upgrade after upgrade of both products, this basic facility is still missing.
I can only deduce that people in Adobe print images in two modes.
1) a lonely image in approx middle of the page with no text formatting or
2) an image in draft mode with a caption and a name plate and uncontolled other text in ad hoc placements (totally unsuitable for presenting to a client).
I would put this requirement ahead of so many other popular requests (even ahead of requests such as networked storage, soft proofing, etc). I can mention other software products who do a really good job of printing meta data with images, do serious work on sharpening, etc. for a fraction of the cost of the Lightroom / Photoshop combination. Becasue I am on an Adobe site I will not mention the names of these non Adobe products. If these small companies can solve this problem, surely Adobe can do so as well.
I also find that I cannot trust the page setup templates that I do create. It seems to me that many of the properties (ie page size, orientation, matt / gloss options) disappear without warning. I suspect this happens when I have problems printing to networked Epson printers (maybe others, but I only use Epson ...with Windows 7.) This is very frustrating when my template changes from Matt in to Gloss, with subsequent wasted of ink and frustration and lost time in correcting and re-updating the template.
Adobe, please finish the Print Module. I do not want any more glitzy updates to publishing to the most recent social media exchange medium. Can we not get basic printing working first.
(..... thanks for listening.....end of rant).

Adobe Acrobat Pro text box not printing and is hidden under box highlight.

Adobe Acrobat Pro 10.1.13. I am completing a form with text box throughout the document. I can no get the text box to printing and the text is hidden under box highlight. I have tried printing with the print feature 'Comments & Forms/ Document and Markups' with no luck.

It's doing that because you have field highlighting enabled. YOu can either turn it off or make the field read-only (if it's only used for display and not entry).

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