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Mediabox, bleedbox, trimbox info

Mediabox, bleedbox, trimbox info

Digitip 011 – Adobe Acrobat 6 When creating PDFs that are PDF/X compliant it is a requirement that the MediaBox, TrimBox and BleedBox are properly defined in the PDF. Acrobat 6’s Crop command is a handy tool to reference the various box sizes.

Faster search and retrieval

Faster search and retrieval

Digitip 010 – Adobe Acrobat 6 Revision 2.0 If you are used to searching long PDF documents and folders full of PDFs, then you might have been spending quite a bit of time waiting for the search to be completed. When I originally wrote this tip last year I actually measured search times and found […]

Swatches added from other files

Swatches added from other files

Digitip 009 – Adobe InDesign 2 You can add spot colours, process colours, tint and gradient swatches used in one InDesign document to another. It is not possible to do this using a simple one-click method. There is however, a semi automatic method that allows adding of colour swatches used in one InDesign document to […]