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Jens Krebs

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  1. Well ... no, but ... as said, it is different to ANY other application and some changes are needed -- If I cannot output files in the right colour (file, format) and resolution, the whole topic of using PDS in the first place is moot. I normally need to produce one CMYK high-res file or the printer and one RGB low-res file for web presentation / email marketing. Maybe ,passthrough' ist not the right term for the feature people have been asking for and the developers misunderstood? There have been many discussions about this in the past and many people chipped in with their workflows and explained what they need. May it as is be, and I cannot speak for others (please, others, comment on this!), but for me this is currently completely unusable: -- I cannot produce web-ready files because they get to big -- I cannot produce print-files because the colour range / profile is not applied and I get complaints form my printer
  2. Just a quick update: I have asked for and received a full refund for the undelivered Publisher workbook.
  3. Happy New Year and thanks for the beta ... didn't expect that on the first day you guys are back!
  4. Absolutely understand and agree that delivery services are much, MUCH busier with the pandemic and Christmas — but three weeks, in your case four, for a book is just a bit unreasonable, considering that the pre-order process should have helped prepping and that amazon still manages to do prime deliveries reliably within 24 hours. In any case: I have full understanding of the situation, am just a bit bummed that I had to find a different Christmas gift on super short notice.
  5. I ordered on 3rd December as a Christmas gift and have not received it in time (three weeks to deliver a book -- they must have massively underestimated demand ...). When there still wasn't even a dispatch note on the 24th, I asked for a cancellation and refund, but didn't get a reply yet. I'm not angry, just a bit disappointed, that they apparently misjudged the interest despite the pre-order option that should have given some indication of how busy it'll get ...
  6. I have noticed, that the comma on the numeric keypad is not always recognised as decimal separator , meaning I have to awkwardly swivvel from quickly typing my measurements with the right hand to using the period on the letter part of the keyboard. My suggestion: ALWAYS use the comma / period key on the numeric keypad as decimal separator when filling in elements of the UI (measurements, colour values, tabs, font sizes, leading and so on).
  7. For image export, dpi is not important, the image size is based on the amount of pixels (in your case 17k by 10k). Especially with JPG images, the amount and diversity of colours is an important factor — JPG tries to save space by adding colours together (simplified: instead of “1bluepixel, 1bluepixel, 1bluepixel” it saves “3bluepixels”). The more diverse the colours are, the larger the file. If you don’t want to compromise at all, you’ll have to live with the 106 MB, however, you could try to reduce the quality to 95 or 90 percent (this adds similar colours together, to keep with the above example, “1lightbluepixel, 1darkbluepixel” would become “2mediumbluepixels”) and check if you can spot a difference in the result — there are good chances the differences are so small that they are not visible in the final product, but significant enough to save space. Short version: Try a quality of 95 or 90 percent. Saves you space and probably won’t make a visible difference in the output.
  8. Holding up an InDesign subscription would -- at least for me -- defeat the purpose of using Publisher instead of InDesign. There are several ways to circumvent the issue, e.g. converting the PDFs to high-res images or converting all text to curves, but that's all just workarounds that cost time and effort (and money for the additional software).
  9. I'd be happy to get the same "thing" InDesign and Quark are using -- whatever technique it is, it makes PDFs look correct and export correctly in different colour spaces, sizes and resolutions.
  10. Makes perfect sense, and there has been a lot of shouting to get passthrough, because interpreted PDFs in Publisher mess up the layout and fonts. As said, it works differently with ALL other layout applications I use. If my choice is between incorrect interpretation and WAY to large files I'm afraid my choice is InDesign or Quark. I am not complaining, just reporting -- this is a beta after all and I just hope that one of the responsible people reads this and start thinking about fixing / changing it.
  11. FOUND THE ISSUE: The problem is PDF passthrough: When PDF files are passed through, they stay completely unchanged, which means that high-res advertisements stay high-res, even when the PDF itself is saved for web / export in a lower resolution. However, when I ,interpret" the PDFs to reduce file size for proof cycles or online publishing, the fonts and layout of the adverts change. Not sure, how other applications solve this issue, but when I place one of my advertisements in InDesign or Quark and export a low-res PDF file, the original layout and fonts stay, but the resolution is reduced and I end up with a small file size, so SOME interpretation is happening, maybe only on images? This needs more work ...
  12. I can’t point to any particular setting or option, but all the standard profiles produce very large files, even when I set the image resolution to 72 and JPG quality to 70% or so — I din’t have time to check the files (Xmas, I’m off, the computer is off) but remember that last time this happened it was caused by all text converted to curves, independent of the settings — can you check if thatks the case this time too? I’m back in my office on 18 January and will either have a closer look at the files or install the then current beta and test in more detail.
  13. Hi, I don't know if this has been mentioned already, but the file size issues in some PDF export options are back in the beta from 11 December -- all the exports I make are MUCH bigger than I expect them to be; The previous beta was better in this regards. Please don't answer this with any well-meant tips on how to decrease a PDF file size -- this is just a beta report, because it seems to me that an issue that had been resolved has crept back into the newest beta.
  14. Since everything that is in a beta can potentially change, it's not worth putting any time and effort in promoting or explaining it. I'm sure there is going to be more detailed information when the software is publicly released, maybe even with video tutorials.
  15. Go to the main menu, click on "My account ..." to open it again. Once you are logged in you can select which "packs" you want to install or remove from your computer. At the moment there is nothing to do but to install and remove this one brush set, but I'm sure it'll get more useful, once all the kinks are ironed out and it's released publicly. Currently there's no documentation or explanation, but given the limited functionality (log in, log out, install one brush set, remove one brush set), I think we don't need one yet.
  16. Done. I've also quickly checked with the current beta (.850) and it still crashes. The expression I have searched for is <.+?> (not * as in my original post, that's a typo).
  17. Character and Paragraph Styles are independent in Publisher, it's possible that this character properties were applied to the cursor / empty text frame and before you pasted your text and then were taken over for some reason (applying a paragraph style won't delete character style properties). Walt is right though, this is just guesswork, a sample file or screenshot would take us further faster.
  18. Check if you accidentally applied a character style too (that is an annoying thing in InDesign that happens to me all the time, have not seen something similar in AP though).
  19. Find and replace seems to be a bit of an issue, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't in between betas (if you look through my posts, you'll see several find/replace issues I discovered during the past few weeks). I have tested your file in beta .850 and for me looking for two blanc spaces seems to work (10 results, including the instance you mention, see screenshot).
  20. Clicking "replace all" in the "Find and Replace" panel crashes the app when there is too many results. I am working on a 20 page XML file and have tried removing all HTML/XML code by searching for the regular expression "<.*?>" and replacing it with "nothing" -- the results are somewhere in the thousands. When I use above expression and click on "replace all" the app reliably crashes, when I find and replace single commands first to reduce the amount of results (e.g. <div> and </div>), the regular expression works afterwards, so I conclude that the app only crashes when it's too many results / operations. I have used the workaround above (reducing results) but have kept the original file -- it's confidential, but if it's of any use I can upload it for inspection.
  21. The day one compatibility with the new Apple computers and Big Sur is a fantastic surprise! Great work!!
  22. Wow, that's a lot of new stuff! Thanks, going to play with it this weekend!
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