Hi Steve, Where were the drop shadows created?
-Matt Matt Sullivan technical communication | online training | eLearning twitter: @mattrsullivan phone: 714 960-6840 On Mar 12, 2013, at 9:33 AM, Steve Rickaby <srick...@wordmongers.demon.co.uk> wrote: > I have a bizarre preflight problem. A (grayscale) book with a great many line > art illustrations has four (only) that use the same three clip-art images of > cartoon characters. I have reduced all color information in these images to > grayscale and preflighted them in Acrobat to ensure that there is no > information in the C, M and Y channels. > > When the images are inserted into the FrameMaker document and PDF is created > from it, the appearance in preflight is that a small rectangular 'window' > onto part of the four illustrations contains C, M and Y information. This > 'window', a square section more or less in the center of each diagram, has > the same appearance in all four illustrations that use the clip art. It does > not map to the cartoon images, although it clips one of them, and includes a > section of my own added vector art. > > Anyone any clues? I'm on ancient FrameMaker 7 on Mac, but I've never seen > anything like this before. (The 220-odd other vector art illustrations > preflight just fine, with everything in the K channel and nothing in C, M and > Y, as it should be.) > > What might be a clue: all these problem images include a drop-shadow, and the > area containing C, M, Y data is aligned with - although not restricted to - > the area occupied by the drop shadow. FrameMaker is set to generate only > black, with white as cutout. > > -- > Steve > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as m...@mattrsullivan.com. > > Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/matt%40mattrsullivan.com > > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
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