Cool Website for Identifying Fonts

Happy Tuesday and early Memorial Day!

I came across this wonderful website a while back. It has come in handy so many times it is unreal. I have recommended it to several graphic designers, customers, etc. How many times have you gotten stuck on trying to match a clients fonts....

The client wants you to match their fonts, but they do not know the name of it and you are not sure what it it either. Well thanks to the wonderful grand website call Identifont, I am able to almost, always trace down a font or even a very similar look a like.

Wow, thanks Identifont! You guys rock, the makers of the Identifont website are wonderful people and their website is a very helpful tool in my field. Check this website out, I am sure you will love it. You might want to put it in your bookmarks, because I promise you will go back to it over and over again.

The website goes through a series of questions about the font you are trying to match and in the end it will give you a list of fonts that could match, then you can scroll through to find the one that is the closest by the sample of the fonts the website displays.

www.identifont.com

I hope you enjoy this website as much as I do. It will be a very helpful tool for those of you stuck on trying to figure out what a font's identity is. Have a great week!

Mailing Indicias

Happy Thursday Everyone!

Since we have gone into the mailing business full force, I have learned there are so many details on the regulations and standards, etc for the US Postal service. The Indicia located in the top right corner of the mail pieces are a very important part of the whole system to make the items mail otherwise they could be rejected.

Today I am going to show you a few samples of Indicias that we use on a regular basis, check with you local postal service to determine what indicia you need to use when you design your next mail piece.

First up is the Presorted First Class Mail Indicia sample: This is for pre-sorted mail going first class postal rate.

Next is the Presorted Standard Indicia Sample: this is for bulk mail going standard class.

Now our last sample is Non-profit organizations the permit # is different for each nonprofit organizations. The return address is required and must match the address of the permit holder:

Remember to check with your post office or printer before placing your own indicia on your designed mailer. There are different rules and regulations for each mail piece. Have a great day!

Problems with PSD files in Indesign

Good Afternoon,

Today I'd like to talk about PSD files (photoshop files save as a PSD Photoshop Document). Lately I have been running into some problems with pdfs created from Indesign that have PSD files or links inside the Indesign file.

Just the other day I received a file from a customer (PDF file) that had a line curved across the bottom. The line appeared jagged almost low resolution. But when I ripped the file in Rampage, it did not give me an error of a low resolution file.... very weird. So we decided to contact the customer. She said maybe it was because she had a link in the Indesign file that was a PSD file type.

So she went back to her PSD file, resaved it as a tif and relinked it in Indesign. Then she made a new high resolution pdf to send to me, and wow what a difference! It looked great, the line was not jagged, it was very smooth.

I think what happens when you have a PSD file it takes up more than double or even quadruple the amount of memory than a flattened, non-layered tif or eps photoshop file does. So when you put it in the Indesign, the memory ends up being outrageous. I think the files trys to process all that and you can end up with small weird things happening to little tiny parts of the files.

The best most sure fire way to get the file to look correct it to flatten all arwork you may have in photoshop and save it as a tif or an eps file. Then use that inside your Indesign file. This will prevent anything strange going on once it gets to the printers.

Hope this helps with PSD problems. Have a great week!

Nikki

How to Use the Advanced Editing Tools in Acrobat Pro

Good Morning,

Today I want to tell you about a really cool tool you can use to edit pdfs sent in by customers that may have cropmarks on them. The tool is the advanced editing tools (TOUCH UP OBJECT TOOL) in Adobe Acrobat Pro. I love this tool.

I use the Advance Editing Tools all the time. I received tons of PDFs from clients with the cropmarks. I cannot use files with cropmarks, it just gets in the way of the finished product. So

next best thing would be to open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat.

Next go to TOOLS tab at the top, scroll down to Advanced Editing, then scroll over to Touch up Object Tool.

Next drag around the cropmarks or select the cropmarks individually.

Now press the DELETE button on your keyboard. TADAAAA now you have just deleted the cropmarks with no problems.

Next make sure to save the pdf again with a new name, that way you will have the original version of the file and the new version of the file that you edited without those annoying cropmarks.

Hope you enjoyed learning about the Touch up object tool in Acrobat Pro. Have a wonderful week!