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Posted: May 23, 2013 - 10:15am

Errrr. Ooops!

http://www.happyplace.com/24093/pixar-branded-kiddie-pool-has-phenomenally-terrible-photoshop-error-funny

Posted: May 17, 2013 - 10:07am

ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Usually. When in doubt, maybe send along a screen shot that shows how one is supposed to look.

and a box of sees chocolates - just like when you were dating

Posted: May 17, 2013 - 8:28am

Lazy8 wrote:

Thanks everybody. They stopped complaining, hopefully that's a good sign.

Usually. When in doubt, maybe send along a screen shot that shows how one is supposed to look.

Posted: May 17, 2013 - 7:50am

Thanks everybody. They stopped complaining, hopefully that's a good sign.

Posted: May 16, 2013 - 8:35pm

Lazy8 wrote:

JrzyTmata wrote:

Standard should have embedded.
can you get in and tweak the settings? You can in Acrobat. I don't know what you're using.

MS Word. Those options aret as tweaky as it gets.

Other option: If you have a laser printer, you may be able to "print" a Postscript file. That definitely carries everything, fonts and all. Then I can distill that for you. ...or you can upload it to Zamzar. This should really be absolutely bulletproof but, y'know.

Posted: May 16, 2013 - 6:25pm

Lazy8 wrote:

JrzyTmata wrote:

Standard should have embedded.
can you get in and tweak the settings? You can in Acrobat. I don't know what you're using.

MS Word. Those options aret as tweaky as it gets.

I'm happy to re-do your stickers for you if nothing else works - just send me the text and the dimensions and anything else you need.

Posted: May 16, 2013 - 5:28pm

Lazy8 wrote:

JrzyTmata wrote:

Standard should have embedded.
can you get in and tweak the settings? You can in Acrobat. I don't know what you're using.

MS Word. Those options aret as tweaky as it gets.

Can't help ya there sorry.
maybe sending the fonts to them will get them going.

Posted: May 16, 2013 - 5:23pm

JrzyTmata wrote:

Standard should have embedded.
can you get in and tweak the settings? You can in Acrobat. I don't know what you're using.

MS Word. Those options aret as tweaky as it gets.

Posted: May 16, 2013 - 5:20pm

Lazy8 wrote:

Here are the options I get when exporting to PDF:ISO 19005-1 compliant (PDF/A)

Bitmap text when fonts cannot be embedded (this one was checked)
Encrypt the document with a password (doesn't sound like a lot of help)

I also get options for

Standard (publishing online and printing) (this one was checked)
minimum file size (publishing online) (not checked)

Does any of that sound like what I should do?

Standard should have embedded.
can you get in and tweak the settings? You can in Acrobat. I don't know what you're using.

Posted: May 16, 2013 - 5:12pm

Here are the options I get when exporting to PDF:ISO 19005-1 compliant (PDF/A)

Bitmap text when fonts cannot be embedded (this one was checked)
Encrypt the document with a password (doesn't sound like a lot of help)

I also get options for

Standard (publishing online and printing) (this one was checked)
minimum file size (publishing online) (not checked)

Does any of that sound like what I should do?

Posted: May 16, 2013 - 4:55pm

Lazy8 wrote:

OK so the new product which is actually an old product we bought from another company has silkscreen labels all over it and they don't have anybody else to do this so I did them in Word (don't judge me! It's all I have!) and exported to a set of PDFs.

I did this weeks ago so the silkscreen shop would have plenty of time to make the screens and fix any problems but just now the parts showed up and they realized oh crap I have to make screens for this and they opened the PDFs (with a Mac) and OMG they don't have the standard Windows fonts I used 'cuz I didn't know any better.

So I sent them the TTF files from my WindowsFonts folder and hopefully that will do it but what else could I do? Is there a way to get Acrobat to embed the fonts in the PDF or can I convert to vector art or something? Is it that hard to get standard Windows fonts for a Mac?

when you make a PDF, STANDARD and PRESS output setting embed the fonts. or you can tweek one of the other setting to include the fonts.

Posted: May 16, 2013 - 4:53pm

Lazy8 wrote:

OK so the new product which is actually an old product we bought from another company has silkscreen labels all over it and they don't have anybody else to do this so I did them in Word (don't judge me! It's all I have!) and exported to a set of PDFs.

I did this weeks ago so the silkscreen shop would have plenty of time to make the screens and fix any problems but just now the parts showed up and they realized oh crap I have to make screens for this and they opened the PDFs (with a Mac) and OMG they don't have the standard Windows fonts I used 'cuz I didn't know any better.

So I sent them the TTF files from my WindowsFonts folder and hopefully that will do it but what else could I do? Is there a way to get Acrobat to embed the fonts in the PDF or can I convert to vector art or something? Is it that hard to get standard Windows fonts for a Mac?

Yes, embedding fonts should be an option, and yes, TTF is pretty much standard now. Send me the PDF and the fonts and I'll package it.

Oh and yes if you can convert to Vector, then great.

And anyway, the fonts are *supposed* to go along with a PDF, that's the point. If they're opening it with Illustrator or something, of course they're having errors. Maybe rasterize it 300 dpi TIFF and send 'em that.

Posted: May 16, 2013 - 4:48pm

OK so the new product which is actually an old product we bought from another company has silkscreen labels all over it and they don't have anybody else to do this so I did them in Word (don't judge me! It's all I have!) and exported to a set of PDFs.

I did this weeks ago so the silkscreen shop would have plenty of time to make the screens and fix any problems but just now the parts showed up and they realized oh crap I have to make screens for this and they opened the PDFs (with a Mac) and OMG they don't have the standard Windows fonts I used 'cuz I didn't know any better.

So I sent them the TTF files from my WindowsFonts folder and hopefully that will do it but what else could I do? Is there a way to get Acrobat to embed the fonts in the PDF or can I convert to vector art or something? Is it that hard to get standard Windows fonts for a Mac?

Posted: May 10, 2013 - 9:09am

ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Anyone have Pitstop? I need a multi-page PDF converted to grayscale and for some reason Acrobat Pro won't do it.

for the record, I used "Puzzle Flow" to make this conversion. Still having some issues with "just" black pages printing cmyk tho, so maybe that wasn't the issue after all.

Posted: May 9, 2013 - 9:53am

Manbird wrote:

A craigslist special or clip art from mumbai? *beard stroke, beef stroke, bean stroke*

We are going to need to measure that beard, sir. I am not sure it meets OSHA stroking length requirements. The beef and beans check out.

Posted: May 9, 2013 - 9:45am

Red_Dragon wrote:

A new company has moved into a building I frequent downtown. The name of the company is Cardinal River Energy. This name appears on their sign in front of a graphic of a sunrise over a couple of mountains. The sun is yellow and the mountains are blue and black, the title is white. It just seems really odd to me in that there is no red - the color one associates with cardinals - or a river to be seen. I hope some designed got paid well for it.

A craigslist special or clip art from mumbai? *beard stroke, beef stroke, bean stroke*

Posted: May 9, 2013 - 7:50am

A new company has moved into a building I frequent downtown. The name of the company is Cardinal River Energy. This name appears on their sign in front of a graphic of a sunrise over a couple of mountains. The sun is yellow and the mountains are blue and black, the title is white. It just seems really odd to me in that there is no red - the color one associates with cardinals - or a river to be seen. I hope some designed got paid well for it.

Posted: May 8, 2013 - 5:31pm

Steve wrote:

I say it'll happen next Sunday at 10:14am.

Posted: May 8, 2013 - 5:24pm

Manbird wrote:

You need more roughage.

I say it'll happen next Sunday at 10:14am.

Posted: May 8, 2013 - 5:16pm

JrzyTmata wrote:

no pitstop here

You need more roughage.