Insight vs Presstouch(creo)

[tparker]

For years we used Scitex's Presstouch to make minor changes to lw and ct files and now we have Nexus Insight to do the same. If anyone can make sense of this thing please let me know. Sometimes you would like to see some changes made to a program and you feel like you are pretty clever. However, this little module needs to be blown up and remade from scratch unless I can learn to think like these developers do.
But that might make driving home too dangerous.
(By the way Nexus Edit is pretty logical.)

[macdevin]

Originally Posted by tparker

For years we used Scitex's Presstouch to make minor changes to lw and ct files and now we have Nexus Insight to do the same. If anyone can make sense of this thing please let me know. Sometimes you would like to see some changes made to a program and you feel like you are pretty clever. However, this little module needs to be blown up and remade from scratch unless I can learn to think like these developers do.
But that might make driving home too dangerous.
(By the way Nexus Edit is pretty logical.)

You are right on the money! I love Presstouch, but hate making changes in insight thats it's much eaier to go back to the file and make the change.

But if you post what your trying to do then maybe we can help?

Devin

[tparker]

I am usually trying to move an item or change a color.

[Joe]

InSight does a couple of things well. Moving things or modifying a CT isn't either of them. It does some nice manual trapping if you need it to and it is also great at changing colors in the LW. To change a color in the LW, if you hold the mouse over the color you want to change and look at your ink pallette it will show you whether it is in the CT or LW file.

Now to change the color you open the Color/Fill dialog from the "View" menu. In the Color/Fill dialog select "Change" from the drop down menu at the bottom. It will show you a square of the source and destination color. While the source is selected, click on the eye dropper tool and click the color you want to change on your page. It will automatically switch to the destination box in the Color/Fill dialog. Click on something in the page that is also an LW of the color you want to change to. If their is nothing of the color you want to change to on the page just click the white background or anything else for that matter. In the Color/Fill box you should now see you source and destination colored to what you clicked on. If the destination isn't what you want, double click that color in the top half of the Color/Fill dialog and change it to whatever value you want. Once you get the source and destination the way you like it click the rectangle tool in the toolbar and draw a box around the object you want to change. You don't have to be too precise here as it will only change the source color in the box. Any other colors in the box will be ignored. Once you draw the box the object will change colors but to apply the change you will need to go to the Bitmap menu and click "Render". That will render the color changes. Then click "File" + "Save" and you are done. If you've opened this file from the workflow manager don't forget to re-run anything past the module where you opened the file in InSight.

Keep in mind if you have any traps in the colors you are changing it won't modify them as the traps are different color values then what you are changing. You may need to modify your traps separately.

[tparker]

thanks joe ill give that a try