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Thank you. I appreciate that very much. Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching.

So are you looking to do a variable from multiple PDFs, but want to specify just one particular page to place into your illustrator document, so I have that right?

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Thank you. I’ll put it on my list of videos to do. I’ve got some lined up coming this month once the new year rolls around. Stay tuned. Thanks for watching.

Thank you for the kind words. I'm just trying to impart some of my knowledge for those who come after me have a decent enough reference point. I wish videos like this were around when I first started in this business, I would have found them super useful. Thanks for watching.

You got it. Glad it helped.

After all the years of using Aldus PageMaker to Adobe InDesign for various design projects, strangely, I have never used the data merge function. Tutorials like yours, gives me and I am sure others the confidence to use data merge. Every day is a school day and it is always of interest to see how other creatives use the many menu functions of InDesign for design and print projects. 👍🏼

@@michaelmccrory2220 very kind words. Thank you. Warm wishes this holiday season.

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If you absolutely need 100% accuracy, then the Pantone bridge is the way to go. However, these swatches are going to get you about 98% of the way there. I wouldn’t worry about them being very far off from the actual printed PANTONE books.

@miketheprintman i don’t understand why? if they are preexisting colors from the former Adobe versions: Pantone does not change existing colors (that would render older designs absolute), they just add more every year.

@@denblaakop I think the whole falling out between Adobe and PANTONE had to do with money (of course). If you have older colors, I don't see what the big difference is, like you said, nothing really much changes. PANTONE claims that their old swatches were out of date and that users needed updated versions. The ironic thing is that ink comes from a can and is set on press, so there is always going to be some issues with what you see on the screen not 100% matching the ink from the can anyway. I think it was all just a cash grab and to make our lives as designers harder.

@ 1. Another company (some Medical giant) actually bought up Pantone, think that was what happened (don’t know so much about it. 2. Exactly, the inc is defined by the color name/code not what we see on the screen 3. It is of course possible that Pantone has gotten better at simulering the correct colors on the screen. But if these swatches was good enough for me to design packaging with them in 2020, they still are… anyways, I bought them, because I hate Pantone Connect 😅

Btw. They do add new colors, so it gives more options to use the Pantone connect, but there is plenty in your collection for my needs.

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No problem. Thanks for the purchase and joining on the Patreon page as well.

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I did this in Acrobat CC, but Preflight has been available as far back as CS2 I believe. Maybe not all the features are there for version 9.0. Yes, could be time for an upgrade.

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Hopefully soon. We are so busy here that I feel like I’m stepping on toes if I’m out there filming. But maybe in the near future.

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You got to. The real heavy stuff is just too stiff to curl around those small paper paths.

You're probably trying to edit an existing built in preflight. There are some that come by default and are not editable. The best bet would be to make the fixup from scratch like I did in the video.

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I truly appreciate those kind words. Thank you so much. The plan is to take the money I've been making on TH-cam and Patreon to finance some at home equipment to do even more videos related to print. I'm just about at that range where I'm pulling in enough money. Hopefully soon. Thanks again for watching, I appreciate it.

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Agreed. This should such a simple thing.

When you say top bound, do you mean a spiral or wire-o bound book that has the coils at the top of portrait oriented page?

@@miketheprintman Yes, sir.

@@JoelSuggsPGA Okay. I would suggest using InDesign, like in this video. The only difference is that the binding will be done at the top of the page, so you want to make sure to set your margins along the top edge instead of the left hand side. That's basically the only difference. I'm planning on doing another video down the road explaining the difference about the different type of book binding techniques and how to set up those files accordingly.

I’ll figure out some place to host these and I’ll update the link in the description.

I made this available for purchase on my Patreon page since the original hosting site it shut down. Since you already signed up for a Patreon account you get it for free. Thanks for pointing it out.

I think that happened with my manuscript. I never could get this to work. Sigh...

It depends on what machine you are printing with. If you are using a wide format UV/Latex/Eco-sol inkjet machine, I would recommend a rich black mix. Inkjet will absorb into the sheet, and a rich black will help keep your black color nice and dense. If you're printing on a toner based printer, I would recommend using a pure black. If the black is not dense enough, most digital toner based printers have an adjustment press side to make the black denser. Of course if you're talking about text, I would always use a pure black for text, no matter what type of printer. If you use rich black for text you may have registration issues. Hope that helps.

Glad it was helpful!

You're welcome. I'm just happy that folks are getting good use out of these videos. I know when I first started in this industry, videos like this didn't exist. I'll have another one on doing this in Photoshop in the coming days, stay tuned.

@@miketheprintman Yea man, you're definitely giving us a lot of value, Mike. Actually, you've convinced me to never touch Adobe Illustrator VDP and just use InDesign's VDP 😂. It's great that you're sharing your knowledge. On a different youtube account I think I'm gonna start sharing what I've learnt also. Watching people like Y'all. Man, I'll watch a tonne of your other stuff also, that's awesome :)

@@wasdatheg1885 I appreciate those kind words, and yes, I encourage you to make videos of your own. It's great to share information and build the community of prepress graphic designers. I already subscribed to you for when you start making them. Good luck.

I will be doing one in the near future. Please stay subscribed and have your notifications on for all future videos. Thanks for watching.

Thanks. Yeah, I still haven't played around with all the new AI features, but I know Illustrator is kind of a pain when it comes to variable data. I normally use InDesign, which handles it much easier. Thanks for watching.

Honestly, that's why I use InDesign for most of my variable data work. I hate doing it this way because it's very tedious. InDesign handles VDP so much better through Data Merge. However, I know a lot of people will find this info useful, so I went ahead and did a video on it. Thanks for watching.

Yep. We certainly are glad you publish these videos. Than you again. FusionPro is nice if you get into very complex vdp...that is if you can stomach that price as well.

@@Hadriaxit That's the hard part right. A lot of shops are in that in-between part of their growth; not yet big enough to afford the expensive software, but still needing it at the same time. That's the tough part.

You got it. Let me know if there is anything else you’d like to see about this model.

Yes, I think I'll do a follow up on this one talking about color conversion in Acrobat. I'll put it on my list. Stay tuned.

Thank you. Not sure exactly what you mean though. Are you talking about converting the gold foil pattern to a specific Pantone color? If so, no you can't because the foil pattern is going to have a CMYK mix and it's not a vector. If you export the PDF with layers, you could always delete the non foil layers and then print. I think I will do a future video on maintaining the layers in a PDF for print. Thanks for watching.

@@miketheprintman sorry. On the video that you made a while back regarding changing CMYK to Pantone, you made some FIx-UP profiles in acrobat. Just wondering if you can make a video creating those profiles from scratch. I'll reply on the video im referring to.

@@pacosanchez-tk3mf Ah, yes, I know the one you're talking about. Maybe I'll do an update to that one. I have several that cover similar topics on swapping colors in Acrobat.

Thank you. There would be some tweaks to the way the files are set, depending on what type of press you have. For instance, the Xerox Iridesse has 6 colors, so you can do the gold in line with the CMYK. We have a Xerox 280 with the vibrant kit, so we can do CMYK in one pass and then come back and overprint gold, silver, white or clear. So it depends on the machine, but the process would be the same if you're doing to do this as a silver foil, regardless of your printer.

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You’re welcome.

Thank you for the kind words. Oh yes, work will never end.

Is it just appearing grey, or is the actual output grey? Check the Output Preview to see what the color breakdown is. The conversion may have made the text a black mix instead of a true 100% black.

You got it. I’ll put it in the list for next week.

@@miketheprintmanMuch appreciated

Are you looking in the Adobe Preflight area, like in the video? Should be in the fixups section (wrench tool). If you already have those preflights in there you can edit them.

@@miketheprintman Yes i did everything exactly like you did in the video :( I'm using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC from 2019..

@ try the generate bleed from page content. That should be a similar set up. I think maybe because you have an older version of acrobat, that’s why the naming is different