Feedback

This page is used for general feedback about this site. If you have a great idea to enhance Prepressure or want to point out errors, let me know.

21 Comments to “Feedback”

  1. memals, on August 14th, 2007 at 5:43 pm Said:

    http://www.prepressure.com/library/binhex.htm
    is the most used page on the internet and you MOVED it !

  2. Cindy, on August 15th, 2007 at 2:11 am Said:

    I like the new design and additional info. I think it’s easier to navigate. There is one typo on your JDF standard page - players is spelled “palyers”. Also, I love the fun section. Any more where they came from?

  3. Laurens, on August 17th, 2007 at 3:40 am Said:

    Thanks for pointing that I shouldn’t move popular pages around. I went through the list of most popular pages and added custom page forwarding pages that redirect traffic from the old location of pages to the new ones. Unfortunately I am not able to do that with any of the pages in the library. I looked at possible work-arounds but am not that happy with the fairly confusing info I find on the Wordpress support pages.

    I guess people will have to learn to live with the new URL at http://www.prepressure.com/library/technology/ascii_binary_hex

    I also fixed the typo on the JDF page and extended that page a bit. As for more prepress horror stories: I am not aware on any other sites that contain such stories. I do remember a thread on the ctpp forum on printplanet.com and will try to get hold of those tales.

  4. greg, on August 26th, 2007 at 3:32 am Said:

    I enjoyed reminiscing about the early days of PostScript. I have been told that when I persuaded my newspaper to adopt PostScript, vs: ICL for our new Autologic imager setters (APS4 or APS5), that I was one of the first to do so; and on Ethernet to boot (mid 80’s?). Before that, I spent a large amount of $$ (around $50K for both) for an Emerald Rip to drive a Monotype tabloid size laser printer for our new Mac’s to output ads. The Macs were IIfx’s. The 21” monitor was about $2.5k and the interface card to drive it was $2.5k and the Mac (I forget how little memory it had) was at least $5K. We finally were able to comfortably output things when I was able to purchase four DEC Alpha’s, running Window NT to run the Autologic PostScript rips. Thanks for the memories. I am the technology person, not the creative person. I would enjoy you describing picture resolution using your down to earth descriptions (ie. dpi vs: screen vs: pixels)

  5. Thomas Lotzer, on September 14th, 2007 at 9:20 pm Said:

    We had a 6088 page PDF from the client where every 8 pages were to be stapled by the copier. We would have had to print each 8 page range, 761 times by hand!

    So I wrote this script that sends every 8 page set to the default printer for you.

    To test, remember to stop your print que beforehand.

    I had to first print a page to set up Tray use, staple location and other critiria. Acrobat remembers the last printer and its settings for subsequent prints.

    Check it out at:

    http://www.applescript.net/viewtopic.php?id=22475

  6. Ron Ellis, on September 18th, 2007 at 11:34 am Said:

    I have enjoyed coming to your site for years.

    Where is prepress pete?

    thanks,

    ron

  7. Laurens, on September 19th, 2007 at 4:47 am Said:

    There are actually Prepress Pete fans?

    I have been thinking about bringing the cartoon back to life but I am not that good at drawing, don’t have Illustrator any longer at my disposal and need to install the ‘25 hours per day’ update first.

    Pete will be back, but I need to figure out a way to get cartoons done with minimal effort & a decent quality & it should be fun to do. Keep watching….

  8. Matt Beals, on September 22nd, 2007 at 6:52 am Said:

    How can I get in direct contact with you? I’d like to discuss a few things with you relating to your site and content?

  9. Walter Maldeghem, on October 3rd, 2007 at 6:24 am Said:

    Cool Laurens … first of all, I want Pete (yes I am a fan) back and if Illustrator is the issue … hum … well, let’s say this could be arranged.

    PS. Is your new site made with what I think it is ?

  10. Laurens, on October 8th, 2007 at 2:22 am Said:

    I redid the site using Wordpress, probably the most popular blogging software around. Even though this site is not a blog, WordPress is flexible enough to build a site like this one. It is open source software, free, easy to use and I installed it in a few minutes, as promised by the makers. What more can one want?

    Prepress Pete will come back but I need to sort out how to create the cartoon. Currently I am playing around with ArtRage II, a fun drawing application that might be suitable.

  11. Umesh, on October 9th, 2007 at 11:48 pm Said:

    hi, this is one of the most useful site, i have ever seen for information related to PS and PDF, THANKS FOR IT..
    but you have moved the information related to “Transparency ” from the PDF chapter,please restore it or if possible please send me the related information.
    One more thing, if possible add some more information on JDF, and yes, please give me your e-mail ID, i would really be honored to be touch with such an intellegent person..

    Regards,
    Umesh

  12. Laurens, on October 11th, 2007 at 3:18 am Said:

    Thanks for the positive feedback!

    The page on transparency still needs to get done, my apologies for not adding it yet. It has been on the to-do list for years but somehow I know this needs to get added but am not terribly excited about the prospect of getting started on that page.

    On the previous version of this site, my e-mail address was visible on a lot of pages. Daily I still get tons of spam coming from e-mail harvesters. Others used the address to ask all kind of support questions, expecting me to solve their prepress worries, by preference the same day. Sorry, I’ve learned my lesson.

  13. Jezza, on November 11th, 2007 at 7:11 pm Said:

    I really like the redisign Laurens and thanks for the link to Nergalicious on the front page as well, I wondered why my traffic had gone up!
    If anyone has daya to day prepress problems perhaps you could point them over here

    http://forums.b4print.com/

    Thanks again.

  14. born2print, on December 4th, 2007 at 6:51 am Said:

    The coordination between this site and the b4print forums is very exciting to me, thank you in advance to all involved and may this be a fruitful marriage!
    Sincerely.

  15. Laurens, on December 5th, 2007 at 5:08 am Said:

    Thanks for the feedback - I hope that we can come up with some good ways of combining the dynamics of a forum with the more static and structured nature of this site.

  16. MichaelWoods, on December 6th, 2007 at 12:19 am Said:

    You should consider adding http://printwiki.org to your dictionary page. It has over 7000 pages of items specific to the printing and publishing industries.

  17. Laurens, on December 9th, 2007 at 9:10 pm Said:

    I added a link in the dictionary section. Nice site!

  18. Bizzbot Snarewinkle, on January 19th, 2008 at 2:53 am Said:

    I just wanted to commend you on a great and very informative website. Obviously a lot of work went into its creation. Two ink-stained thumbs up!

  19. mick, on February 19th, 2008 at 8:50 am Said:

    I have been searching around on your (newly discovered) site, and think it’s great. I also live waaaaay out in the boonies and have a very slow dialup account.

    Your site is nicely designed and has a light footprint, but sometimes that’s not even smalll enough. I rely on an RSS reader a great deal to get the information i want.

    I don’t see an option for RSS here; am i missing something?

  20. Rahul Yadav, on February 23rd, 2008 at 8:47 pm Said:

    It is very informative website. Complex concepts are explained in simple words with beautiful examples.

  21. waqas shah, on March 10th, 2008 at 7:38 pm Said:

    it designed quite well.

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