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I was about to say that preview in open dialog is as big as you care to drag the window but possibly that is a feature of Default Folder X.

Usually I have had no real problems with online printing companies (though I use them not much), most usual grieve is trimming, cut may be sometimes real shoddy. I may write new topic about PDF output as this has wandered a bit...

I do not think there is a handy button "protect alpha" (which often would be useful), but people use selection (cmd-click layer) or some masking function to save transparency. Please advice me if there is quick and easy way.

Windows should nowadays be as good in colour management as OSX so: Select Adobe RGB 1998 as working RGB space Select Fogra 39 as working CMYK space (change this if your printer has better ideas or you will be printing other than standard coated paper, or you are american who have their own CMYK ideas) Profile selection stays active until you change them (or you reset whole app). Device specific profiles work only with devices and user should not touch those in working applications. I am not sure how scanners use profiles to day (quite automatically I suppose).

...about rasterizing image layer before you can copy a part of it – really. Same thing in AP. When you select and copy a part of image layer, sw should automatically switch it to rastered, do its copy thing and revert layer back to image object, all this while user thinks s/he is just copying a bit. I am sure though there are some problems with this..

I guess it depends on printer driver.

This is how JView handles it:

This is default appearance when first opening an image: As you see default window is smallish, and actual image while shows entirely is even smaller.

Yes, behaviour is non-standard. Images should open fit-to-screen but not enlarge view over 100 %. Personally I do not find this a problem (but then I do not work with small files a lot, on the other hand many users may like to work small images zoomed into anyway). More a nuisance is that images do not open as fit to screen but too small, about quarter of available screen. Window has to be dragged manually to fit the screen.

I am not sure which industry segment we are talking about here but often online printers run small runs with digital presses (or maybe printers) which rather take RGB color as input.

But crop is not standard tool in vector graphics like it is in pixel editors. Unless I am way behind times I believe Illustrator hasn't it either. There is a nice article how to do it in Illustrator, you can apply the methods in AD: http://www.wikihow.com/Crop-in-Illustrator For example using art board tool for cropping looks straightforward.

weird, pervert addiction :huh: (I should stop checking myfonts specials page)

If you search forum you will find some posts regarding Filter Forge. Seems latest version works now within AP, at least in 8-bit images.

I asked it once and got answered "it might be nearest neighbor".

In prepress the term is "device pixel" :D

R C-R, I am not sure what you trying to say with that resolution basics. Probably this whole discussion had nothing to do about rasterizing scaled images; which is still a grey area in AP mechanism. :rolleyes:

Why this arises is maybe because we are not talking about export quality, but resizing quality, or rather any transformation which may be needed to be rasterized before it can be used as part of work flow. All is fine is you let export do all resampling but there are no controls or even any knowledge what resampling method happens when you select "rasterize".

I would wish noise could be controlled with a few more parameters. Size of grain for example. At the moment noise looks good on monitor but in reality it is so fine that halftoning may eat it invisible. Of course, if I set document dpi lower pixels will be bigger... but as long as PDF export does not support vector shapes with pixel elements, result would be too low res output.

Are you saying Preferences > Performance > View quality affects not only to view quality but also to actual destructive pixel editing? If so: OK, but really this should be known and understood by users.

It has both editing and compositing.

You can lock layers and layer groups which helps keeping objects in their places. Master page is a Publisher feature and I would not think it will appear in AD before APub is available if even then.

I have heard Resolve can be picky on hardware, but otherwise it is very capable; Hitfilm 4 is easy and smooth, but not as professional featurewise.

Well, I use vertically centered text in some infographics created in InDesign. Of course text boxes in those have also border and fill colour (which are also missing in AD).

Horizontally it centers just fine :D

OK, this file does not behave as it should -- there is some bug somewhere in program. Possibly it is related to fact that layer type is marked "layer" when it is really a "group" (I don't know if this should be possible). Maybe someone can tell how to fix it. It is possible to get around problem by creating a new layer (inside group) and drag it out of group. After that new layers appear normally (like layers use that dragged layer as new reference).