Hi Users
I have two PDF printing issues Generic I got the MI layout map without any graphics and create a PDF file using PDF writer or Distiller. When I want to create the full PDF layout files, I use Adobe Illustrator. The major advantage is that the MI workspace is loaded very fast and all the graphics aspects are dealt in Illustrator environment. The plain MI PDF maps can be copied and pasted inside Illustrator and then the whole thing can be saved as full layout PDF. If modifications are required, they still can be done, in some degree, in Illustrator as PDF format. This means a lot of flexibility. I have all current drivers. Problem 1 A raster Vertical Mapper map was overlaid with two vector files (water and boundaries) the plain layout was converted to PDF using distiller or PDF writer. No Adobe Illustrator at this point. When I looked the PDF in Acrobat Reader, the vector lines where slightly shifted with relation the raster map. This �shifting� occurred in all overlaid raster maps but varied in degree. The vectors were always identical for all layouts. So the raster files created by VM presented some degree of shifting with respect to the vector layer when converted to PDF. In MI they look OK. I wonder if any of you have encountered this �shifting� problem and what could be the cause of it? Problem 2 Once the PDF (Illustrator) layouts were prepared, I printed them in tabloid (11 x 17) format using the Lexmark color laser. But when I sent them to full scale using HP450C I got all sorts of problems. Some of the thick lines were transformed to hairline style and some didn�t. To make the things more puzzling, I opened the PDF layout in Illustrator and edit it and saved it again. This time, other lines were transformed to hairline thickness. Whatever I did with the PDF/Illustrator layouts, such as change the color of a legend block and change it back to the way it was before, was enough to modify the object line thickness. The only way to get the lines properly plotted was to print the PDF file from Illustrator but � a legend descriptive text was garbled this time. Besides, I have to print them from Acrobat Reader since is this program the client will use anyway. How can we guarantee that delivering the layouts in PDF format will be OK when the client plot them using its own printer/plotter? And why this had occurred? Thanks you all -------------------- Dyan C. Catamaran P: 604 2750671 _______________________________________________________________________ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body.
