The site for prepress & print devotees

Prepressure covers design techniques, PDF, PostScript, fonts, JDF and numerous other prepress topics that have to do with printed communication. This site teams up with B4Print.com, the favorite stake-out of many prepress professionals who regularly visit its forums or the front page which offers the latest news on design, prepress and printing.

The poll: Are you a computer junky?

It has been raining for days now. I find myself in front of a computer screen both during the day and most of the evening. How about you – are you one of those computer junkies as well?

A look back at 2009

For the printing industry, the past year hasn’t exactly been a good year. My history of prepress page about 2009 mainly talks about the economic crisis.

Meanwhile 2009 has been an excellent year for this site. I’ve added and updated loads of articles, enjoyed doing so and learned a lot along the way. Monthly page views tripled to 100000 views per months. Below is a list of the 20 most popular pages of 2009. Consider it a ‘recommened reading‘ list.

The Prepressure home page

PDF

• How to edit PDF files
• Fonts in PDF files
• The PDF/X-1a file format
• The PDF page boxes: MediaBox, CropBox, BleedBox, TrimBox & ArtBox
• The history of PDF

Fonts

• Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard & fonts
• Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard & fonts
• Interesting typefaces
• Most important fonts

Miscellaneous

• The EPS file format
• Paper sizes
• RAID
• Bitmap versus vector graphics
• Decimal, binary, hex & ASCII conversion table
• Design
• The TIFF file format

PostScript

• PostScript errors
• Offending command: image
• PostScript error: limitcheck

I like Windows 7

So much in fact that I have creating a Working with Windows 7 in prepress page which lists some tips and tricks as well as recommendations.

PrepressPete is tweeting

I saw one of our pressmen stare at a press sheet for several minutes. Woohoo, we have a printer that can read!

What’s new?

New or reworked pages on DIN A7, 2009, using Windows 7 in prepress, Windows 7 typefaces, QR codes, the A6 paper size, the names of glyphs, Windows 7 font handling, Snow Leopard font management, finishing, prepress, Bifur, the historische drukkerij, various dictionary terms, 1986, artwork from hell and troubleshooting InDesign.

Also have a look at

- B4Print – the prepress forum for people willing to go off-topic once in a while.
- Prepress Pilgrim – DJ’s ramblings on prepress, the web and whatever itches him.
- InDesignSecrets – The podcasts are even better than the site.
- Publicious – Interesting blog about publishing & XML.

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