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Why not just go to a print shop that supports this, like moo.com -- they allow you to do a range of business cards/postcards with small print runs, and differing images on one side (notionally the front). I had some printed by their UK branch recently for a project I'm working on, and have been overjoyed with the quality.
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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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Wow...it looks like you're not getting a whole lot of help here.
I'm a graphic designer operating a design company here in Japan.
To get you to where you're trying to be, I recommend using any "Mincho" typeface. That's the serifed variant in Japanese typography. If you have some Japanese fonts installed on your computer, they should have the name "Mincho" ...
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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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You didn't actually edit or crop the PDF. What you did was rasterize the entire the PDF by importing it into Photoshop. You then cropped this new raster image and exported that as a new PDF. In other words, your two PDFs have entirely different contents. Since one is mostly vector information and the other is a full-resolution pixel image, it's no surprise ...
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If you need to make anything more than a very minor change to a PDF, you need to go to the layouts that was used to create the PDF in the first place. PDFs don't work with objects in the layouts that page layout applications do.
Otherwise, if you need to edit a PDF, then Acrobat Professional is absolutely the way to go. It is designed specifically to edit ...
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If you intend to print them yourself, does it have to be done with PDF? I have used Photoshop myself to create a front and back image to print multiple business cards on cardstock with my own printer. I usually create the business card image itself in two PSD files, one for the front, one for the back, in exactly the right dimensions to print with some ...
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Look around for the Audit space usage ... option (explained here). In newer versions it is oddly hidden under Save as > Optimized PDF. That will tell you exactly where the bloat is coming from. You can also use the Optimized PDF option to crank the size down in very targeted ways.
Given the big before/after shift, the culprit is probably the image you're ...
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You can do it in photoshop.
From the top menu ( doesn't exist in cs6 anymore ):
File > Automate > PDF Presentation..
In the PDF Presentation window:
Select the files you want to convert to pdf.
Select Multi-Page Document.
Click Save button.
..and then the Save abobe PDF window comes up, where you can define the pdf settings and then save it.
If it ...
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There is nothing out there to match PDF2ID from Recosoft. It converts a PDF into an InDesign document so accurately, and so well (i.e., the document is well structured, styled, accurately parsed and laid out), that it's scary. The resulting INDD almost never requires touch-up, and if you get this kind of work even once or twice a year it's well worth the ...
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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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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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Erm.. there's no such thing as a "vector png." PNG, by nature, is a raster format.
I'll assume you are using Fireworks since that's the only place I've ever seen vectors exist in a png file. Fireworks will embed vector content within the png format, that's proprietary and non-standard.
What Fireworks basically does is save two versions of the file within ...
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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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If you have InDesign or QuarkXPress. The best software to use to bring in PDF documents into an editable format is PDF2DTP from Markzware. You can find it: www.markzware.com/products/pdf2dtp. I'm not sure if they have a running demo of it, but I gave it a shot and it works great! I've used recosoft's PDF2ID, as Alan mentioned, converter for many years before ...
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PDF is not designed for editing, although there are tools that can bodge it. For anything more, you will need to get the document into an editable format. In the worst case you may have to cut the text and paste into InDesign and then recreate the document.
The translation is also quite unlikely to copyfit exactly into the original layout, so you may need ...
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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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Perhaps "Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities" is a bit of a misnomer.
Unless a PDF is locked down with a password, you're always going to be able to open up PDFs in Illustrator. What you'll notice though is that certain things are handled differently when that box is unchecked...Layers are flattened, hidden areas of clipped images are possibly ...
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Every screen has it's own resolution. Or rather pixel density.
Consider a 20" (diagonal) monitor:
A monitor set to 2560x1600px has a ppi of about 137
A monitor set to 1920x1080px has a ppi of about 102
A monitor set to 1440x900px has a ppi of about 89
I post "about" because actual physical size of the monitor is a factor as well. A 20" monitor with a ...
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The only way I can think to do this is via a watermark.
The basics...
Open PDF in Acrobat. Choose Pages > Watermark > Add Watermark.
Select a jpg or PDF of your background and adjust scaling options as desired.
Then click the Appearance Options.. and uncheck the Show When Printing option.
In this image the PDF is a blank page with the word "Test" on ...
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"STACK" is a programming term used to describe functions currently in use to accomplish a particular task. Postscript, the technology behind PDFs, is a programming language in its own right. But unless you are a programmer who understands Postscript, that will do little to help troubleshoot the error.
I would say that something happened when the PDF was ...
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It's tricky to make a recommendation. You say "booklet", which implies a small project, but I assume if it's successful you won't stop at one. Here's the thing: no matter what software you use, you're faced with a significant investment of time learning to use the application, and from a practical standpoint I consider that a very important consideration. ...
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Seems like we don't have any Japanese users active here, which is a shame because that's a great question any typographer might need to answer. I've had Chinese to typeset (only a character or two at a time, in an English translation of "The Art of War"), not yet any substantial quantity of text. I would assume you'll receive the text from the translator in ...
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I would guess that your PDF is a CMYK file rather than RGB. If you're then viewing the PDF with something other than Acrobat or Adobe Reader, the colors in the file may be being interpreted incorrectly when rendered for your screen.
Try the PDF save using the "High-quality Print" setting, which is an RGB mode for desktop printers, and see if that makes a ...
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You figured it out. The dimensions you see in Bridge for the PDF are the output dimensions in points, not the image size in pixels.
This is a sometimes misleading side effect of the fact that PDF is (in theory) resolution-independent, much as an Illustrator or EPS document is, that the "dimensions" of the PDF shown in Bridge are the print dimensions, not ...
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Adding strokes to text to create a feux bold is really bad practice. It would be a much better solution to use a typeface which actually has a bold face.
Check the Reader prefs... Page Display > use Overprint Preview [dropdown] Set that to "Always" It may help the display. Unfortunately, you can't control how other users have their prefs set. You can tell ...
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I understand that it is bad practice to try and make faux bold text in any program, whether Photoshop or Illustrator or Indesign. I understand it, but it is also not realistic to an artist. Sometimes you like fonts that don't have a bold option, but they need to be more readable. What do you do then? So it isn't good to apply faux bold in Photoshop because ...
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PDFs support fillable form fields, so this is pretty easy to do in Acrobat. But if you want to use InDesign, you typically need to design the form, then use Acrobat to replace the placeholder elements with actual form fields. This page describes the workflow.
Luckily, as mentioned on the same page, Acrobat 9 has an automatic form field detection feature. ...
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You can do it with scripting. I've tried an tested this script in InDesign CS5 on a Mac,
What you need to do is
Select which text box you want the students' name to go in
Then under the 'layers' panel, expand the layer it is in, and change the name of the text box by slow double clicking it, and enter "NAME"
Copy and paste the script below in notepad or ...
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What you need is an InCopy with InDesign workflow. InCopy does exactly what you require (and is made for exactly this task). There is nothing else out there, frankly, that doesn't involve klugy workarounds.
With InCopy, your copy editors and writers work with the exact layout, they can see exactly how the copy flows and where it will overset, but they can't ...
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