OK, I bit the bullet and bought the Adobe Design CS Premium suite to
bring all my graphic design work up a notch.
Almost all the printing companies I work with required PDF format
files for output.
Most of my layout work (posters and business cards) I do in InDesign
an use the "Press" PDF export preset.
I have one fairly major problem :
* Some PDFs display correctly but don't print "as they look"
Example
I have been supplied with a logo in EPS format. Its white lettering
on what appears to be a transparent background (when viewed in
Illustrator).
I don't seem to be able to get it to appear / behave as white
lettering on a transparent background when I "place" it in InDesign.
To work around I open and rasterize it in Photoshop and save it as a
single layer (transparent background) in PDF format.
It places in InDesign and displays properly.
However when I print I get a variety of effects - mostly cutouts (box
shape around the lettering) or "burn throughs".
I suspect something to do with transparency settings?
I've trawled the help files (how I miss a big set of "dead tree"
manuals) and googled but can't seem to work it out.
Any design professionals out there with any ideas? I'd be happy to
forward an example "culprit" PDF.
Cheers, Antony.
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