Precautions Made in Prepress Software (1)

When I recently talked to my friends at the export center, I talked about some things that I usually do. Some problems that were simply solved in the production and in the past have caused bizarre mistakes in the film's passing. These things can be avoided as long as our production staff have some understanding of the output printing process.

Like the manuscript of a magazine company, due to some problems in the production process, when an output center was opened, it was found in the RIP that there was a missing word in the document, but the output personnel could not check the problem. Lastly, the magazine said that because of the use of pirated characters in this output center. Later, they took the manuscript to the output of the new generation output center, and the same problem also occurred. Fortunately, the technical level here is relatively high. After careful inspection, it was found that several "implicit spaces" in the file were not deleted. After deleting the space, there is no such problem after the film is released. This problem, which was very simple for the production, caused the output center to suffer badly. It also caused the magazine community to run around. It also delayed the time and almost missed the publication date.

The output center is very helpless, but we feel that if the file is out of order, it will be designed and made here if the loss is greatest. These delays are all small things, but if there are really some mistakes, they will not be discovered until the final printouts come out. There are many other similar simple problems...

We have collected some notes that were made in various software. Please output the center's professionals to tell us the specific points of attention in the production process. Listen to the professionals! ～

General considerations

1, Mac production users do not use Beijing, Song, FangSong, Hei, Kai and other system fonts, if you use it will not be able to output or output garbled.

2. Pictures Do not make RGB pictures, such as using the output is not correct (may be out of gray or other non-customer wanted color).

3, if the customer uses more English fonts, especially for some of the less commonly used books, please copy the disk into the best time to facilitate the output.

Freehand3.1

1. When the Chinese character distance is negative, it is easy to cause the text to overlap.

2, the correct use of "fill and stroke" function, easily lead to "paste". If it is wider, press the same word without effect (Apple+=, select effect=none), and use the “fill and storke” to imprint the text.

Note the "overprivt" option.

3, freehand to do the gradient, the output accuracy should be changed to 2400dpi in the document, so that the gradient will be better.

4. "Tuan-Pattern" is a kind of bitmap that is filled in. After the output, its color is solid and cannot be screened. For example, the file is set to light green C10Y10, the screen display is normal, but the output is dark green C100Y100.

5. TIFF graphs exceeding a certain number of megabytes cannot be placed in Freehand 3.1 and the graph will be spent.

6. After a TIFF or EPS image is placed in Freehand 3.1, the format of the image is changed (eg TIFF becomes EPS or EPS becomes TIFF). Freehand files may not be opened.

7, if the placement of the map and changed a Photoshop PSD diagram, Freehand file will not be reported when opened, but the output does not map.

8, Freehand3.1 can not automatically update the image link, so the figure has been placed after the change of size, Freehand can not see the change. However, after opening the file to the output center, the size of the figure has changed. Therefore, after the map is changed, it should be re-placed in Freehand.