Nice one…Looking into it now.
Wait…
I’m not looking for dupes.
I am looking for missing files.
So, if anything exists in the external drive which isn’t in the master folder, I want that to be flagged.
GoodSync appears to just be able to Sync 2 folders? Am I missing some options here?
Printers. My Mrs is after one. She draws digital portraits and what’s a printer cabable of printing these. If it’s of any use she usually draws them in 300DPI. She also wants it to be a laser jet so she can’t print her own vinyl stickers. She’s got one in mind but just looking to see if anyone else has any suggestions
Post what you have in mind.
Not many home printers have the capability to print decent stickers. You have to match media and print profiles. Sticker media is very limited for lazer because of the heat involved and the media is usually shite, not the kind you can sell as a quality product. You’ll get into lots of realisations when trying to print stickers, things just are not possible or are just not up to scratch quality wise, that’s why screen printing is still a thing, and rightly so, it’s the analogue to the digital of printing stickers, it’s just got a quality that can’t be replicated. You’ll also maybe realise that you can’t print clear stickers because printers can’t print white haha. I have to explain this most weeks.
Anyway, I went off on one, what do you have in mind?
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Not that I have a clue, but this is rad, I’ll give it a whirl later on for shits and giggles…
Ok, so this works.
I’ve got almost 30k files to go through and have an idea how to manually speed things up - so if I can do that (In Bridge) and then run this script, I think it should help a lot.
Thank you.
She was looking at the epson expression ET-7750 eco tank or the other is the Canon pima pro-100 wireless
So, both are inkjet meaning that you’ll get great photos and could be nice for portraits depending on how she does them but you can’t do stickers without having a specific inkjet sticker vinyl for your type of ink and the profile to match and then they won’t last 5 mins because they won’t be UV protected unless you laminate them with clear UV vinyl making the stickers look amateur. Inkjet will do much better photo’s than lazer but lazer will last longer as the toner is cooked onto the paper. loads of pro’s and cons to both types.
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You tried pasting the text in with no formatting? Ctrl + shift + V I think
If not I don’t quite understand what you mean. Screenshot?
Is it different if you type text out by hand?
Can you switch on the formatting so you can see unprinted characters like spaces in InDesign? Maybe you’re using non breaking spacing or something?
If you have a good scan and solidish writing, take it into illustrator and use live trace to make it into a vector, then you don’t have to worry about res or bg colour
You could do it in photoshop using curves with a good outcome too
Maybe find someone on fiverr to do it for you
Off the top of my head. Bring up the brightness/balance in PS? Or use the colour picker tool then just use the paintbrush to dot out the marks, like tipex? Or tipex on the original sheet you’re scanning, haha.
you should be able to set it for 2 color, then select all the white, delete then your just left with the text.
Feel free to shoot me a page over and il test it out for you
Hi mate,
Not sure if this is helpful at all but a couple of things that might be useful:
If your scanned text is looking blurry it’s probably to do with the resolution vs size you’re using it at. You’ll want a scan at a minimum of 300dpi. If you then scale the text larger than it was originally written at it will start to look blurry. So either scan it in at like 600dpi or, do as was mentioned above and live trace it so it’s no longer pixel based.
Also, if you’re trying to get a transparent background on an image but will want to print it, don’t save in a png format. Png’s aren’t designed for print. Best to use a layered psd or a flattened tiff.
The white remaining in the P’s and O’s etc is maybe due to the magical wand settings in photoshop if that’s what you were using to remove the background. Try toggling the contiguous box before selecting white areas and playing with the limits of the selection (I’m not at my computer at the moment so can’t recall off the top of my head).
Is the page colour not white? Is that why you need the background to be transparent?
Instead of bringing the vector text back into photoshop and then back out into Indesign you could just save the text out of illustrator as individual .eps files and just import them straight into indesign - that way you cut out needing to use photoshop at all.
The benefit of going direct from illustrator to I design is that you can then scale the .eps file to whatever size you want in indesign without losing quality or resolution, plus there isn’t a background and you don’t have to spend time creating masks
You should have the text as just 1 color now, if you have deleted the white, don’t worry about the art board being white.
You can then select the text/vector and copy page onto your in design page, so say your page is green, it will be text on a green background then
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Basically, once you’ve traced the text in illustrator what you’re left with is vector text, unlike a png or jpeg which is pixel based. And because it isn’t flattened, it doesn’t have a background.
To test what I mean, literally just copy and paste the vector text from illustrator into an indesign doc. You’ll see what I mean if you then put something coloured behind it, there’s no background it will only show the shape of the text.
What I would do is trace all the text and then save it out as either 1 or multiple .eps files (or .ai files). Then in indesign, place these eps files directly into it (think it’s Cmd D on a Mac). You can then scale or move these around in indesign as you’d like to create your page design
