Low Res PDFs out of indesign
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- Gucci
Why is it that clients refuse to understand that the keyline that surrounds images with transparencies isn't a good representation of the final file? It seems to happen when a low res PDF is spat out of indesign.
Is there a way around this issue that doesn't involve making an enormous PDF X1a file?
- ETM0
Can't you spit out the high-res from ID than just res-ample in Acrobat?
- JackRyan0
^ Thats the only way I ever got around it. The pain of it is, that it doesn't always happen. Some files it does, some it doesn't...annoying.
- Gucci0
annoying: yes.
resample in acrobat: works... sometimes. other times the file sizes stay enormous because some images "could not be downsampled"
The other issue with spitting out a high res PDF is that ID likes to slice it up and you see those fine white lines in the image. That's a whole other ball game when it comes to a client. It's a double edged sword.
- Gucci0
i wonder if CS4 has addressed this issue at all.
- honest0
I've started sending screen-grabs as proofs...
- dan53820
output a ps file then create a pdf with distiller. You shouldn't have those problems anymore.
- monospaced0
sometimes setting the PDF to output RGB will sometimes fix the on-screen issues
- ETM0
Don't use ID much... but with the image slices prob... does it make a difference if images are embedded instead of linked, or vice versa?
- MrOneHundred0
Set the transparency Flattener to High Res, the Downsampling to 75dpi and the Compression setting to High. I find this is a good compromise.
Or you could tell them you’ll courier over a Lambda print proof like the old days. But it’ll take a week – like the old days, ffs.
- OSFA0
pffft what about them thick i's and l's....
- those are PDF glitches, if you zoom in they go away.epete22
- They print.MrOneHundred
- MrOneHundred0
Yeah, that’s a problem. If you have the time, you can open the file in Illustrator, find each instance of them, select them and go Object > Path > Add Anchor Points then re-save as a PDF.
- johndiggity0
view the pdf in increments of 25% (ie 25%, 50%, 100%).
- exactly, it doesn't seem to be visible at those proportions/zoomkodap
- Amicus0
if johndiggity is right... then set the pdf to open at 100% and they won't see the outlines around the transparent areas...
- MrOneHundred0
It will still be there if you print from the PDF, I believe.
- Amicus0
I haven't had the problem with these printing...
If you continue to zoom in you'll see they disappear and reappear at different zoom levels...
- fresnobob0
flatten to jpgs and recompile?
- johndiggity0
acrobat seems to have problems interpolating certain vector data when viewed at percentages other than multiples of 12.5%. you can see the sample thing to a lesser extent in photoshop if you view something at 33.3%, 66.7% etc.
usually the problems occur with transparencies or effects on vectors, certain fonts, and the "i", "l", "I" phenomena.
a good workaround like amicus said is to set the default view to 25, 50, or 100% and resave the document.
- or export the file as a tiff or jpg and make the pdf from photoshop.johndiggity