Re: Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11 (some progress)

2013-07-23 Thread Mike Wickham
Careful. Adobe recommends against having Acrobat and Adobe Reader on the same computer. They sometimes, especially if different versions, step all over each other and break things. Mike Wickham On 7/23/2013 5:37 PM, Robert CH Shell wrote: I had a brainwave and used the same pdf using the

Re: Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11 (some progress)

2013-07-23 Thread Matt Sullivan
Eek, what a headache.Now you know why I maintained the jpegisbad.com website a few years ago…The $8/year I paid for the domain was well-worth the therapy it provided! -MattMatt R. Sullivanco-authorPublishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 11P:714.798.7596 |C:714.585.2335

Re: Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11

2013-07-22 Thread Stuart Rogers
On 2013-Jul-22 1:12 PM, Robert CH Shell wrote: Dear Framers: I am stuck once more. I am printing a single file to pdf via the .ps route. However, I am finding that each and every graphic (all jpgs below 250kb) is surrounded by a thin white INDELIBLE HAIRLINE. No hairlines are visible in FM 11 I

Re: Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11

2013-07-22 Thread Matt Sullivan
Robert, have you tried the Save as PDF route, with the Adobe PDF print driver selected? Same result? -Matt Matt R. Sullivan co-author Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 11 On 2013-Jul-22 1:12 PM, Robert CH Shell wrote: Dear Framers: I am stuck once more. I am printing a

Re: Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11

2013-07-22 Thread Mike Wickham
Have you zoomed into the PDF to see if the hairline is still there? Acrobat sometimes creates display artifacts, depending on zoom level. They only appear on screen at low zoom levels and don't print. Presumably, they are rounding errors, where Acrobat rounds something up to display as one

Re: Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11

2013-07-22 Thread Tori Muir
Robert, be sure that your Distiller is using joboptions that have Acrobat compatibility set to Acrobat 5 or above. Acrobat 4 compatibility will produce the hairlines. That said, Mike is correct -- they do not print. Tori Muir tm...@spot-on-creative.com | 650.430.8674 www.spot-on-creative.com

RE: Unwanted hairlines around graphics in pdfs created by FM11

2013-07-22 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net)
In my experience, this has happened for one of the following reasons: 1. The JPEG has the line in there as a row (or few) of single-color pixels that are different from the rest of the image - this requires fixing in an image editing program to remove. 2. The FM instance of that image has