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Questions about printing, the process of reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing.

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PDF artwork for large posters - filesize issues?

If you're designing for print, you shouldn't be enlarging JPEGs anywhere. It defeats the purpose of having a high resolution image if you're just stretching out lower-resolution images and saving. Als …
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Export a design for Print Usage, preserving the vector

Adobe InDesign has a maximum dimension of 216 inches / 15552 pts / 5486.4 mm (18 feet). You should be able to just drop the vector object in InDesign and scale it to the size you want. Not sure what …
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How to design a brochure for a programming competiton

The standard design process applies: Research Think about your target audience and examine professional designs for other programming competitions, programming events, programming organizations. Make …
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If I make a design in RGB mode and then change it to CMYK how will it look when it's printed?

Firstly, when you change color modes, you should use Photoshop's Edit->Convert to profile function. This will allow you to map the colors to the new profile in the least-obtrusive way. This should pre …
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Insert a variable on many pages in Adobe InDesign to fill in when printing PDF

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 …
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What tools can I use to create Fractal Art?

If you have access to Photoshop CS4 through CS5.5, you can use the Fractal Explorer Pixel Bender plugin (downloadable for free here): Unfortunately, Adobe decided to discontinue Pixel Bender suppor …
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Which Photoshop features are affected by different DPI or PPI tags?

In all my years of working with Photoshop, the only one that really stands out to me (aside from "print" and saving to other PPI-sensitive formats like PDF, obviously) is the type tool. But that's pri …
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