Creator versus indesign

[angie deangelo]

Bob,

Felt compelled to write you because we too are still in Creator 4.0.5.

I have all the copies of Creator 8.2 that I need for our Layout department,
but Pagination requirements have made it necessary to stay in the old
Creator. Kodak Preps is the problem, I believe. If we send through Creator
to the RIP, for the most part, everything prints okay. If I impose through
Preps, then send, I get all kinds of issues. We're working through all of
that right now. We have a problem with Spot Colors being exported out of
Creator through .pdfs and once through Preps, the plates will not print on
Spot plates, they print on CMYK.
It's been a tough time for us to switch up.

I was just at America East in Hershey and spoke with the Creator people.
They tell me moving from 4.0.5 to 8.2 will be easy, just make time for a
learning curve, because 8.2 is much different than 4.0.5.

Just wanted to let you know that misery loves company, and you are not alone
in Creator 4.0.5 land.

Ang

Angie DeAngelo
Kapp Advertising Services, Inc.
100 East Cumberland Street
Lebanon, PA 17046
kappmactech at comcast.net

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-----Original Message-----
From: creator-bounces at wacondatrader.com
[mailto:creator-bounces at wacondatrader.com]On Behalf Of lagasses
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 2:24 PM
To: creator at wacondatrader.com
Subject: Re: Creator versus indesign


1)
I know the ad builders used to complain when they had to work an ad in a
quark file, because Multi-ad (We are still using 4.xxx) used to find
missing photos or graphics on a server itself - and quickly - when we
hit the find it button, whereas quark couldn't and made you go looking
for it.
Does the new multi-ad still search ALL connected hard drives for missing
photos/graphics and QUICKLY.

2)
And does InDesign search hard drives for missing photo/graphics or is it
like the Old Quark (we use Quark 4 & 5).
As a side note:
I did download an xtension for Quark that searched connected hard drives
for missing graphics, but it took almost an hour sometimes and you could
see the xtension burying itself into the hard drive checking all folders
and files. I finally threw it out because it was easier doing a search
with the OS. Maybe the new Quark works better? Anybody know about that?


3)
Because we are still using Creator 4.1 in OS9, will the new Creator in
OSX (which were also switching to - on intels) open the old creator
files with no problems?


4) I assume the Matrix tool is still there?
Yes, when we have time, we will check out the creator site.

Thanks
Bob
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