I’ve never run into the word binding used this way. Is this a common term in Austria or Germany? I’ve only seen the term used in printing/publishing when referring to the various means of binding pages together in a publication and wrapping a cover around them — for example, bookbinding.
I downloaded it and looked through it. My German isn’t good, but from what I could decipher, it’s a fantastic resource. I wish there were an English version. The closest equivalent I can think of in English is Pocket Pal, but it hasn’t been updated in 25 years.
Various color settings and the many different kinds of settings when saving to PDF or modifying the settings in Acrobat are confusing. Very few resources adequately explain them, let alone a comprehensive guidebook. When I see so-called designers not knowing about bleeds or incorrectly setting up crop marks, it makes me think they’re almost certainly relying on default settings for everything else and hoping for the best without having any clue about what they’re doing.
Yes. I see no reason to build vector graphics in RGB when those graphics are intended for print. In the rare instance when I need to convert an RGB vector file to CMYK, I’ll always spend a few minutes cleaning up the color combination mess created by the conversion. For example, the last thing I would want is black text in an Illustrator file being converted into a black made from screen tints of all four process colors.