Real World Print Production with Adobe Creative Suite Applications

Crossing The Great Divide

Gone are the days when we needed special translation software to even read files from The Other Side. Whereas network connections once required arcane geek incantations and burnt offerings, mere mortals can now point, click, and magically access a networked PC from their Mac. We live in wonderful times.

But that doesn’t mean things are perfect or painless. Windows users have to accept that many Macintosh users don’t consider file extensions important (even though the current Mac OS uses them). Macintosh users must learn to avoid florid naming conventions. And everybody still needs to gather up the fonts before they send a job out the door.

While setting up a network is outside the scope of this book, the assumption is ...