Re:Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning
by dylan604 on Friday April 09, 2021 @01:29PM
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If you worked alone that might have worked. Sending/receiving files from someone with newer versions caused problems. I suffered through this once when doing 32page magazine layouts, and I was a version behind the printer. That experience alone convinced me to upgrade.
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Re:Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning
by mattkevan on Friday April 09, 2021 @04:39PM
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In my experience the printer was always a good few releases behind the current version. No-one wanted to upgrade unless they absolutely had to. The switch to InDesign from Quark was particularly drawn-out, and even then no one took Quark 5 files.
It’s very different now it’s all done by PDF - as long as it’s formatted correctly it doesn’t matter what program created it or how old it was.
Re:Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning
by wdb on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:22PM
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I always just send a PDF or IDML file to the printer. So far that worked out well
Re:Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning
by Nkuna on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:38PM
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You'd send InDesign files to the printer? Why when there are various export formats printers accept..?
Re:Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning
by dylan604 on Friday April 09, 2021 @03:11PM
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Going further back to Aldus Pagemaker. Plus, I come from a time of Quark and SyQuest drives to move data around. Things were different in the stone ages. PDFs were not a thing people used.
Re:Figma and Canva are taking on Adobe and winning
by mortenjorck on Friday April 09, 2021 @09:13PM
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When I worked in print design, we’d typically send two things to the printer: a zip of the Quark or InDesign “collect for output,” and a PDF for reference.
Later, though, I seem to recall some printers accepting PDF/x-1a files – I don’t know if the industry has transitioned to that now, or if some still prefer a collect for output.