pre-press--dealing with transparencies

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  • horton0

    i frequently send print stuff overseas... have had some fantastic press results, and on the flip-side, some completely whack.

    i pretty much always rasterize everything vector accept text. i'll raster in AI if its easy (although AI raster has some size limitations) or i'll export the layers to tiff and then place back into AI with text etc. on a layer ontop.

    i wouldn't waste your time flattening transp's etc in AI or Acrobat. if you can't communicate with printer its much easier and more reliable results if you just make it all a raster image.

    • Ditto, totally agree.
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    • and yeah def outline fonts as pylon suggested.horton
    • yup. this is the way to go.theredmasque

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