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Archive for October, 2002

PDF for Print

Monday, October 28th, 2002

GASAA PDF for Print, Oct Nov 2002 Jan 2003

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My New MINI!

Saturday, October 26th, 2002

More pictures here: Many Pictures of Nicks MINI Cooper S
And here is the new car

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MINI

Thursday, October 24th, 2002

I picked her up two hours ago. She's pretty, dark green, and I think I am in love. Oh, yes, I am talking about the MINI Cooper S...

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Creo Prinergy

Wednesday, October 23rd, 2002

Thanks to David @ Creo Australia, I spent the afternoon yesterday with the new version of Creo Prinergy, 2.1. It will take an Adobe Acrobat 5.0 PDF (PDF1.4) and flatten the transparency out of InDesign 2.0 in the RIP. This means that as printers install 2.1, you can export Acrobat 5.0 PDFs from [...]

InDesign 2.0: Trapping Journey with Prinergy

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2002

Visit the new InDesign Prepress Section: Adobe InDesign: Prepress Techniques

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In Australia, the most common RIP I see in highend platemaking work is the Creo Prinergy series
This particular system takes in Postscript and PDF, and foes through a process of Normalising the input into PDF. As a part [...]

InDesign 2.0: Export or Distill PDFs?

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2002

Visit the new InDesign Prepress Section: Adobe InDesign: Prepress Techniques

InDesign: Use the Distiller or Export PDFs?
This was originally posted to the InDesign-Blueworld mailing list on 14-October-2002
Firstly, there is nothing technically wrong with Exported PDFs from InDesign. At all. I (personally) have had great success with exported PDFs from InDesign RIPping to Prinergy [...]

MINI

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2002

Pick up the MINI Cooper S Thursday Morning (24th) Woohoo!
Adobe Server Product Range Lots of new server things.

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MINI

Thursday, October 17th, 2002

Getting a MINI Cooper S next week. Woohoo! Its a little sad to see the Honda Civic VTiR go, but I am sure it will serve the next driver well.
DNS issues still up in the air, but getting closer to being resolved. Just waiting for the nickhodge.com IP change to propogate out onto [...]