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Yes, but you could skip a version easily in the old days!
by wdb 6y ago
Yes, but you could skip a version easily in the old days!
- dylan604 6y agoIf you worked alone that might have worked. Sending/receiving files from someone with newer versions caused problems. I suffered through this once when doing 32page magazine layouts, and I was a version behind the printer. That experience alone convinced me to upgrade.
- wdb 6y agoI always just send a PDF or IDML file to the printer. So far that worked out well
- Nkuna 6y agoYou'd send InDesign files to the printer? Why when there are various export formats printers accept..?
- dylan604 6y agoGoing further back to Aldus Pagemaker. Plus, I come from a time of Quark and SyQuest drives to move data around. Things were different in the stone ages. PDFs were not a thing people used.
- mortenjorck 6y agoWhen I worked in print design, we’d typically send two things to the printer: a zip of the Quark or InDesign “collect for output,” and a PDF for reference. Later, though, I seem to recall some printers accepting PDF/x-1a files – I don’t know if the industry has transitioned to that now, or if some still prefer a collect for output.
- mattkevan 6y agoIn my experience the printer was always a good few releases behind the current version. No-one wanted to upgrade unless they absolutely had to. The switch to InDesign from Quark was particularly drawn-out, and even then no one took Quark 5 files. It’s very different now it’s all done by PDF - as long as it’s formatted correctly it doesn’t matter what program created it or how old it was.