Thursday, April 20, 2006

Fun with Desktop Publishing

I created a brochure for an upcoming conference. I finally submitted it to the printers yesterday. This morning the lady got back to me and I had to make the following changes:
* put my 8.5x14 brochure on 11x17 paper so they can cut it down to size
*make the border 1/4" all around so the colour goes all the way to the edge.
* add crop marks
* change the colours from RBG to Pantone
* change the document to spot colour

What as ordeal! I thought I was going take me a half hour and it ended up taking me nearly 6 hours. I won't bore you with the full details but first MS Publisher and Photoshop were not playing nice. I finally had to edit my image in Publisher so it would should the correct colour. After I changed the colours suddenly the crop marks would not show up so I had calculate where they should go and physically draw them in. There was also some wacky things going on with the postscript printer. Manually putting in the crop marks made it so I could avoid it entirely. At least with all my struggles it will save a lot time with the poster that will be submitted hopefully tomorrow.

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