Colecandoo (2024)

is the blog of Colin Flashman, a prepress operator since 1997. The site aims to provide anyone preparing artwork for print with useful information to make their artwork flow seamlessly in prepress sections of any commercial printer. The tips on the site are an accumulation of experiences and trials during my time as a prepress operator, and the blog originally began in the year 2000 as my own rant

on an old employer’s website concerning what frustrated me the most about the artwork which was being processed. Apart from Colecandoo!, Colin also contributes to the printing community in the following ways:

* Contributing writer for InDesign Magazine and indesignsecrets.com;
* Previously spoken at PEPCON 2016 about Data Merge, and has had cameo speaking roles at other CPN events such as the InDesignConference 2016, and the CreativeWOW session of CreativeProWeek 2017.
* Previously spoken at several Adobe Users’ Group of South Australia sessions;
* An Adobe Community Professional (ACP) of the Adobe Forum

13/02/2024

I conducted a survey to work out what users are doing now that Pantone Color Libraries aren't in Creative Cloud and what I found out surprised me.

I conducted a survey to work out what users are doing now that Pantone Color Libraries aren’t in Creative Cloud and what I found out surprised me.

26/01/2024

Need to know spot colours in a logo but only been given an RGB PDF? Perhaps opening it in a text editor may yield results.

06/11/2023

Latest post for just released - variable bar graphs NO GREP REQUIRED, NO CHARTWELL REQUIRED:

Learn how to make bar graphs in InDesign, using an Excel formula, Data Merge, and a character style

30/10/2023

Why I wrote the "new features" piece, when there were no new features at all.

Why I wrote the “new features” piece, when there were no new features at all.

18/10/2023

Are these the latest InDesign updates for 2024?

23/07/2022

InDesign's Innovation saw it overtake Quark Xpress, but is that innovation still there? With users scripting their own solutions and competitors catching up, InDesign's developers should definitely take notice of their uservoice, community and challenges.

https://colecandoo.com/2022/07/23/indesign-in-denial-or-in-decline-then-innovate/

InDesign's Innovation saw it overtake Quark Xpress, but is that innovation still there? With users scripting their own solutions and competitors catching up, InDesign's developers should definitely take notice of their uservoice, community and challenges.

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