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You should be talking to your billboard company or at least working from the information on their website. That's the short and critically important answer. The rest is based on my own experience here in the US, but should apply equally to your area.
Billboards are never created at full scale in the authoring application, in my experience. For example, one ...
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Head over to Adobe.com and do a bit of reading regarding features.
In general:
Photoshop = raster image editing (photographs) or digital painting (Illustration)
Photoshop Extended = Same as Photoshop + ability to use some 3D tools and basic video editing
Illustrator = Vector artwork (Logos, illustrations, etc.)
Indesign = Page layout (books, manuals, ...
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Honestly, this is the print provider's job. There's no reason a designer should be doing pagination for press. That being said, I realize that some print providers are lazy or at times, honestly don't know how to paginate native files, or aren't using a PDF workflow yet (unbelievably) and don't know how to paginate a PDF. There are software packages ...
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Design in greyscale, black and white. And it's printed with one ink. It doesn't matter what color that ink is. It's still just one color.
Don't use Pantone or spot colors, just design everything with black and white. The printer will use whatever ink color they choose.
There is never a reason one would need to use one spot color to design something like ...
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The key to understanding InDesign's pixel-based RGB document modes is that ID "thinks" 1px=1pt. Acrobat, it turns out, wouldn't know a pixel if it met one at a birthday party; it only understands points, inches, millimeters, etc. So you can get into quite a tangle with it.
Be aware that the "96ppi" you're selecting in the Interactive PDF output applies ONLY ...
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Set up your four page document the way you normally would. In a case like this, I'd probably turn off Facing Pages in the document setup dialog, but it doesn't really make a difference.
In the Pages panel flyout menu, turn off "Allow Document Pages to Shuffle." (This never makes sense to me, since the whole point is to let me shuffle them, but they mean ...
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Actually, this is fairly straightforward. I'll give you the steps to save swatches in Photoshop for Illustrator / InDesign, but it works pretty much the same way in any direction.
In the Swatches palette, click the top-right menu and select "Save Swatches for Exchange". Save your file somewhere you can find it. In Illustrator, go to the Swatches palette, ...
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I've been doing my own research and found an option that seems to work okay. It gives the writer an imperfect but near-accurate version of the layout to work in, and takes almost no time away from real work to produce it.
It's based on turning a PDF into a Word doc... the very idea of which makes me feel unclean... but it seems to work, and the copywriter I ...
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In reality, since the implementation of multiple artboards in Illustrator the reason for using Indesign compared to Illustrator changed a bit. Pre CS4 the immediate reason was a single Indesign document rather than separate documents for each page with Illustrator.
Nowadays, there are still reasons one may prefer Indesign over Illustrator but, similar to ...
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Click the S or B options to the right and then adjust the vertical slider. This will retain the hue but allow you to alter saturation or brightness.
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Yes, Photoshop could be used to design a magazine. But, so could MSPaint. This is absolutely a job suited for InDesign.
InDesign has much better tools for typesetting. If I didn't have InDesign available to me, I'd probably even use word processing software to lay everything out instead of going with Photoshop. It's definitely not the tool for the job.
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As Lauren says, you can simply uncheck Hyphenation in the Paragraph panel or in the Hyphenation section of your Paragraph Style, but don't be too quick to throw away the hyphens. No hyphenation also tends to leave you in trouble when you have widows and orphans to deal with.
Some things worth considering:
Language: Hyphenation requires the language of the ...
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Several options.
draw it. Not that hard to do in a vector illustration program. Draw half of it then flip to make the other half and join them together.
Scale a brace from a particular typeface (as e100 suggests)
or perhaps the easiest/most versatile: choose a brace from a typeface in your vector illustration program of choice and convert it to outlines. ...
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If you can properly embed the fonts, then yes, you could just create the PDF directly from Word.
InDesign is a much more robust page layout product, and offers a designer a much broader set of typographic and page layout tools with plenty of fine-tuning, but if you're find with the Word version, then technically, you can just convert that to the PDF you ...
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Lauren's answer is correct, in that InDesign is a layout program, but in the last few years InDesign has taken on many more tasks than just layout-for-print. With CS3, Adobe built a "headless Photoshop" (the actual Photoshop code) into InDesign, giving us drop shadows, bevels, glows, feathering, etc., and they expanded these capabilities greatly in CS4 and ...
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Sadly, there isn't a straighter native way. There has been some threads on the topic on Adobe forums and even an Adobe employee recommends exporting the image in PDF and opening it in Photoshop — though it is kind of same as exporting it to a EPS and opening it in Illustrator.
One other thread comes to the same conclusion, but someone does indeed ...
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Last time I was in Europe, magazine size was not on my mind... however, what I would do in a case like this is go to a kiosk or magazine stand, or even the nearest library, and measure one that was in the format I had in mind. The British mags I see around here look to be larger than A4, but they may not be typical.
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IF it's a Quark 4 file, you can open it directly in InDesign.
Otherwise you can try Q2ID from Markzware. It's pricey ($199); I've never used it, although I've heard good reports.
Beyond that, you'll have to recreate it somehow.
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When you're in an unusual situation like this (and Scott's answer is dead on -- it's a very rare case that you need this in professional work), the straightforward solution is to use File > Print Bookletand select PDF Printer for the output. It will produce printer spreads.
There's a problem with this workflow on the Mac since Apple broke the Adobe PDF ...
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It's probably time to hang up a shingle and promote yourself as a freelancer, at least for the time being. Acquent is one good place to start. Make yourself a fantastic-looking business card, carry everywhere and give out freely.
Although you can always poke around for pro bono work for local charitable or religious organizations, these aren't the best for ...
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Call me old school, different or just plain wrong but Photoshop should be used just for that: photo editing and retouching. Fireworks should be used for web design (the CSS exporting ability alone in Fireworks is heavily underrated much like Fireworks itself). Illustrator for, yep you guessed it: illustration work and logo's. InDesign for magazine/newspaper ...
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Acrobat X does not install a print driver on the Mac to the best of my knowledge. Acrobat Stopped installing the PDF printer driver at version 9 on the Mac due to how Apple built in the PDF saving.
I believe your first link is referring to a Windows system since the Mac OS has PDF saving built into the OS print dialogs (as shown in your second link).
All ...
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Make certain View > Display Performance is set to Highest Quality.
There is also an Object Level display, Object > Display Performance. The View Display performance should, by default override the object level setting.
This setting allows importend images to be displayed at a lower quality in order to speed up things like panning and screen redraw. But ...
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I always use tabs with an underline leader.
The method of creating lines, then anchoring them in text makes for sloppy editing later. And using repeated underscores doesn't allow for proper alignment.
Another option, depending upon desired design, is to use Paragraph Rules:
If I want anything containing more rules than these two methods I move to ...
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With Indesign open but no document open go to Preferences > Units & Increments and set the drop down menus to Millimeters.
Indesign will then use MM as the default.
This won't change existing documents, but it will change any new document.
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This is an artifact, obviously, of wretchedly failed attempts to render vector information accurately on screen.
The problem may be specific to Stone Sans. Have you tried experimenting with something else? Something in the hinting information (although I don't know why you'd want to hint the bottoms of sans strokes) would be the hot suspect.
If the problem ...
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Other than Photoshop, whose guides are monomanically monochromatic, guides in the rest of the CS applications pretty much follow the rule that when selected they will assume the color of the layer they're placed on.
If you have, say, three layers in AI or ID and place guides on each one, a simple marquee selection will expose their "true colors" so you can ...
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Tables! Laying out in tables in InDesign is awesome for forms. You can stroke the bottom of a cell for the text field, make small uniform stroked cells for checkboxes, and use a character or paste in an image for a radio button. Unless you merge cells weirdly, everything has to line up.
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In general, all of the fonts you use should be embedded when you export it using one of the existing PDF presets (in fact, I believe that it's a major piece of work to not have the fonts automatically embed).
The only issue you may have is if you're using some bizarre font with strange permissions (e.g., the trial version of a font, a font that someone ...
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The shortest way to handle this without a custom script is to go to the end of the last "real" text frame, then use Ctl/Cmd-Shift-End, which selects all text past the cursor, followed by Delete. If you have Smart Reflow turned on, this will automatically delete any extra pages and their frames, if you have them.
Given your description of the workflow, you ...
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