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Printing Colors Inverted?

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2007-09-26 12:02:14
libbyann721
Registered: Sep 26 2007
Posts: 4

Hi,

I've been digging through everything I can get my hands (or mouse) on to find a simple solution to my problem. We create multi-page presentations, which often have dark backgrounds with white text. The client would like to be able to print them out to mark them up (I'm trying desperately to get them to use Comment & Markup). Because of the dark background, their marks don't show up, so I need a way to invert all the colors just for printing. Can anyone think of any easy way to quickly create an inverted colors version of a PDF? The files are created in InDesign, if that helps.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

- Libby

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2007-09-27 09:32:50
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rhickey
Registered: Sep 27 2007
Posts: 84
Yeah, getting them to use commenting tools would be the best, but I can think of one fairly painless alternative.

Since you're using InDesign already why not just place the Proof PDF as an image to a duplicate layout and lower the opacity of each page enough to see any markup. That way they can view the 100% version as a proof and markup the lower opacity one for feedback. Just a thought.
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2007-09-27 10:32:45
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rhickey
Registered: Sep 27 2007
Posts: 84
If you REALLY want the colors mostly inverted I suppose you could take the original InDesign file, create a new top layer, draw a frame to fill the entire page and bleed, fill it with the complimentary color of the predominant dark color and set it's blending mode to difference.

I personally think my first suggestion would be better.
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2007-09-27 11:35:17
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libbyann721
Registered: Sep 26 2007
Posts: 4
Thanks for your suggestions. The trouble is, it's often a 100+ page document. What we've done before is to make all the text one color swatch and the background another and then when it's time to print, just change the swatches to the inverse of the display color and print. Then we change the swatches back. Kind of funky, though, and complicated if there's more than one text or background color... I was hoping there was a printing function in either Acrobat or InDesign that allows inverse printing so we don't have to manually change it for each little thing.

Another part of the equation is quick turn-around times. Often the client will see a PDF, mark it up, and shoot it right back, expecting revisions to be made very, very quickly. I'm looking for something that is not labor-intensive, very fast, and not permanently damaging to the original file.
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