Comments on: InDesignSecrets Podcast 111

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:23:37 +0000

Blatner Tools public beta coming sooooon… this week for sure!

By: Fred Goldman

Fred Goldman — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:17:20 +0000

David,

When are those public betas coming? I am very anxiously waiting to try them out. I actually have a perfect Word doc for it right now.

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:53:43 +0000

THANK YOU, anne-marie and david! that whole “bleed preview” thing was driving me kuh-RAZY. yes, i use the W key — it’s my favorite shortcut. : )

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:48:28 +0000

Thank you Omar!

If my software-calibrated monitor gets me 90% of the way there, I am not going to spend $5,000+ (hardware, time, tweaking, angst) to get 97% of the way there, plus a new monitor every couple of years. I don’t begrudge other people from doing so of course, it’s just that I don’t do that type of work … I’m not, say, a photo retoucher at a pre-press house.

I remember Dick Margulis teaching a CMYK color correction class on GREYSCALE monitors. His point was that color calibration might lure you into thinking what you see is what you’ll get; when instead you should be paying attention to the CMYK mixes, which you can discern in ID’s Separations Preview panel if you’re so inclined, and comparing their readout with what you know should be a proper skin tone mix or betrays a color cast.

By: Omar Khatib

Omar Khatib — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:35:29 +0000

“your not going to make the screen look exactly what it looks like in real world” – so true David. I wish more people understood that little fact.

“if its never going to look, then why even bother…”
Well said Anne-Marie!

Numbers anyone?

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:05:09 +0000

I bet you have been using the W key — and that toggles between the normal view and the last preview mode you were in. If you went into Bleed preview mode once, then the W key is likely remembering that. Just go to the normal Preview mode once manually (from one of the menus) and W should work “properly” from then on.

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:54:20 +0000

Man I could’ve sworn we talked about Slug Preview and Bleed Preview … it was in our notes … but maybe we got off track. (Imagine, us getting off track in a podcast. Unthinkable.)

Frank there are actually THREE preview modes in InDesign: Regular (just called “Preview”), Bleed, and Slug. It sounds like you keep choosing the Bleed one. Switch to the Regular Preview mode by choosing View > Screen Mode > Preview. Or, if you press and hold on the Tools panel icon for screen modes, you’ll see one there for the Regular Preview too.

If that’s not working for you, then maybe you need to rebuild preferences or something?

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:16:26 +0000

i am a big fan of the preview mode, so i was looking forward to your tips on customization for it. i was hoping you’d give a tip on how to hide the bleed in preview mode — is this possible? i swear i’ve been able to before, but now i can’t seem to do it.