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QuoteUndrpsi[Ok...I don't understand your reasoning on this. I run a machine shop. Customer wants a part. Brings in a drawing on cocktail napkin (happens). We go over the design, show him the bugs and production changes...then make the part. Charge him accordingly. If I sent them back for bad design or kicked back their prints..well...my life style would not be as rewarding as it is now.
So..y
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Back in the day, I had to deal with that situation all the time. Never had a problem. What did you run into?
We did a lot of Publisher pdfs - never any bleeds & never had fonts embedded
In order for your Publisher pdf to copier scenario to be true, you're assuming some competence from the Publisher user.
Forgot to mention - also a lot of problems with
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The article is a joke.
"... firestorm ensues"
"... Murderdrome has now joined the pantheon of suppressed fiction"
"By Wednesday morning, the post had drawn dozens of responses..."
".... had been picked up by half-dozen sympathetic bloggers..."
A "firestorm" with "dozens" of comments and picked up by six bloggers. I could
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QuoteStephanieQuoteBlankity BlankPublisher is fine if:
- You submit your job as a PDF to the copy shop and they output it on some kind of copier
Publisher is not fine for the purpose above. I speak from experience. PDFs made from Publisher files were just as bad.
Ok, now I'm having flashbacks to my time spent working at a print shop. I'd rather not relive the horror. Good night!
Back in
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QuoteMike SellersQuoteM A V I CIs the bitmap conversion done with in ID?
I convert to bitmap in Photoshop but I like them to be around 1200 dpi at 100% so I res them up before I convert if they're not that high. You're right, the bitmaps don't anti-alias but if you're dealing with solid art, the high dpi usually takes care of that.
This is always a last resort if I can't get a vector art fil
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Quotejdcand what if i change my mind and want it, say gold? more photoshop work?
Once it's a BW bitmap, you can assign any color you want to it in ID without having to go back into Photoshop.
(Mike beat me to it again. )
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Publisher is fine if:
- Your expectations are low
- Your projects are simple
- Your project will never go anywhere near a printing press
- You submit your job as a PDF to the copy shop and they output it on some kind of copier
It's a little old lady in tennis shoes program. For the right level of user with unambitious projects, it won't kill you.
I haven't tried it, but I read an arti
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QuoteRacer XBrad Pitt trashed a house he was renting in cabo when he was filming TROY. And his cigar smoke caused $100K worth of damage to some priceless antique Spanish tapestries. He refused to pay for their restoration, saying it was a rental, why were they there if they were so valuable?
That beats the hell out of some whacko wanting white chocolate instead of mints on her pillows at nig
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QuoteBigGuynRustyQuoteThe UnDougIf you subscribe to a Comcast package that doesn't include a particular channel (like "Noggin," for example), will that channel still be available in "On Demand?" Or are the On Demand channels determined by the package you subscribe to?
Or, is On Demand only available with the higher packages that already include all the channels?
No, not ye
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QuoteWagsWhich event do you think is the most demanding in terms of athleticism, commitment to training, and best represents the Olympic spirit?
No one sport is at the pinnacle of all those things.
Athleticism? Does basketball demand more "athleticism" than gymnastics or soccer or water polo?
Commitment to to training? Um, which event is it again where you can slack off and still
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QuotergGI just heard an interesting clip on CNBC today. The commentator suggested that Bolt may not have wanted to make his time too fast because of the way bonuses are paid. Apparently, most of the athletes with contracts from people like Puma, Nike, etc. have a clause in those contacts that says they get paid a bonus each time they break a world record.
Armchair "genius" BS. He would
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You get On Demand as that is the vehicle for pay per view movies. You can see the listings for On Demand offerings outside your package, you just can't access them. For example I can see the HBO On Demand listings, but I just get a message urging me to subscribe to HBO if I try and choose one of the movies.
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Quotebazookamanwhat about this one?
Well she's not a super heavyweight, now is she?
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Quotebazookamanwomen marathoners...so not a good look.
IMHO.
Wow, if you've got a problem with that, stay far, far away from the super heavyweight female weight lifting.
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Quotespace-timeQuoteSpeedyThis thread seems more than a tad bit racist.
I do not agree. I am white. I was totally amazed by the 100m final. I happen to notice there was no white in it. Is the "black" race better that the "white" race when it comes to running? Maybe. I don't know. But certainly in this Olympiad, they managed to send 8 of their top athletes to run for the 100m
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I've always thought, going back as far as simple taping on a VCR, that a 24 hour window on spoiling things as early as the title of a thread was the civil thing to do. Just to give people who got stuck working or whatever at least a minimal chance to be able to open up a page and not have things spoiled.
But then I also figure that while some people spoil just out of over enthusiasm, some peop
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QuotedavesterIt doesn't matter if Spitz is the most obnoxious prima donna on earth.
Actually, it does matter. Based on his behavior now, I can easily see a situation where the IOC might fear that he would in fact behave like a prima dona and draw attention away from Michael Phelps and his accomplishments.
This is Phelps' moment in the sun, if this pompous grandstanding is what can be expected
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QuoteArticle AcceleratorYou can also see lives streams--no NBC/MS/Adobe bullshite required--at: CBC:
*click*
"Sorry, this video is not available in your area."
I looked for a proxy server to use, but couldn't find one that worked.
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There's an option in the Place dialog box when you choose the new image, "Relink All Instances of "File Name"". Is that checked?
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An update and a restatement:
- The default player requires Silverlight 2, which is for Intel Macs only.
- The site throws up an unsupported browser/hardware error that prevents access to the link for the non-Silverlight stream. This happens regardless of browser.
- Switching the identity of the browser, using the debug menu, to a Windows browser does not work in Safari.
- However, s
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Because the default video player requires Silverlight 2 (Intel Macs only), Mac PPC users are apparently locked out. From what I've read, there is a Windows Media based stream that might work with Flip4Mac. But when you try to play a video, the NBC Olympics site puts up an unsupported browser/hardware error page before the window for the video can load, and the error page is simply a notification
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Are these things supposed to be tricky? I bought a Netgear stick for $5 at a rummage sale, ran the CD, plugged it into my mom's HP and off she went and she's been happy as a bug in a rug ever since. I just assumed they were pretty much plug and play(ish).
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If you're afraid of it tipping over, you can change the orientation so it sits on the broad dimension.
It's a nice unit, with a very nice design, at a reasonable price. If it was Apple badged and hyped as the new Mac mini, the macmacs would be filling their drool cups to overflowing.
Of course, within a couple of weeks there'd probably be outraged threads about the bamboo case warping or so
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QuoteMike SellersUhhhhh . . . mmmm . . . ho-kay. Nothing on that list would extract one dime from my pocket.
There must have been a warehouse full of amazing, cool things at ComicCon, none of which seems to have made this list.
zzzzzzzzz...
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From Macworld:
"A company spokesman, who said he was a member of Open Tech's legal team, refused to give more than his first name, Tom. "I won't say more because of the ruthless sharks that are swimming around," he said when asked why he wouldn't provide his full name or title.
Open Tech Inc., which does not list its mailing address or telephone number on its Web site, will s
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I'm probably around 40-50wpm on a computer. I was a lowly 35wpm or so on the lovely mauve IBM ball Selectric I spent so many years in front of throughout school. When I'm composing material from scratch, and I manage to stop thinking about typing (the thing that probably slows me down the most), I might crack the 60wpm barrier on occasion.
I have an aunt who was a secretary for forty years and
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I checked out Hasselblad prices for the first time in a couple of decades and I actually lost the power of speech for a minute or two after I saw the prices.
The 30 megapixel models go for $30-40K for the body and one basic lens, and they've got a 50 megapixel model on the way, that I'm assuming will involve an armored car hijacking and a blood sacrifice to buy.
Maybe I should check out pri
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"... the men's testosterone levels of the hormone had shot up by an average of around eight per cent."
Uh, "shot up"? An average of only eight percent? I'd think most guys get that pumped watching a commercial for a new Carl's Jr. burger. Sounds like somebody was working hard to justify their funding.
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Quotecbelt3The key is that they don't have the:
Knowledge
Software
Understanding
Experience
But that's why you guys have a business, so quityer biotchin !
cbelt just stuck the landing.
90% of the time it's nothing more than cluelessness. They open up "Adobe" or "Microsoft" or even "Windows" (Yes, I've even heard that one), start flailing about, and whammo t
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Sites that autostart *any* multimedia content; music, movies, whatever. Flash introduction pages that last longer than a few seconds and don't have a "skip" button. Any site still designed with too much form and not enough function.
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