rachaelamber

Thank you so much @lacerto, I appreciate your support and this seems to have done the trick. Being able to check the PDF after exporting was helpful to confirm this. Hopefully the printer agrees all is fixed now. Thanks much, be well.

Hi, I seem to be having trouble exporting my publisher file as a PDF properly for my printer. I followed all specs and instructions, the profile is set to CMYK, and all pages were proofed to make sure all black text is 1c black – 0C/0Y/0M/100K. Yet when I export the files and send to my printer for pre-press proofing, they keep saying it's 4c and not the same as my working file... I'm not sure how to check the PDF for whether it's 4c or 1c black. But apparently something is going wrong in the export settings. Attached are the details of exporting. Additionally you can see the color bar is at 1c black when I'm highlighting black text within the file. Are there other settings I should be looking out for that could be messing with the export? Is this an "overprint black" issue, which I already unchecked I believe? How can I make sure this is exported with 1c black text for my printer to proceed with the process? Is there some way to only export text as "K" and ignore the other colors even if they're set to 0? I'm not sure where else to go but this is delaying the print process as they won't move ahead until I have it exported properly. Additionally, they want to try the file themselves but they work in inDesign so I don't believe I can export it for them to work with unless they have affinity? or is there a way to export for others to edit? And for the future, were there initial settings or steps I missed or preferences I need to adjust to make this the default? (all text seems to be created at a default of the 3rd screenshot but perhaps that's because I drag the color picker instead of specify.) Thank you so much for any help you can provide in advance! -R

Thank you so much Walt! That's exactly what I needed.

Hi there! I'm looking for advice as I'm about to hand over some files to my assistant to help support me after previously doing a huge project alone. It's a large file – a 320~ page book with text, color, images & different content on every page. Therefore I have my image files linked so that such a large file can be worked on without lag. However, I am wondering what is recommended/what will happen if I share this file with another? Since the linked files are on my computer, it likely won't translate to her computer when she's working on them... so what is recommended? Even if I share the files with her that are linked, they'll then be in 2 sources and I'm afraid that will disrupt or confuse the file? The only other thing I can think of is embedding them all but splitting the file up into smaller pieces... but this may cause issues when it comes time to piece it together for print? Is there anything else I need to keep in mind when co-working and sending files back and forth? I plan to send files via google drive but is there a better / recommended way? Thank you for any advice, support or recommendations. R