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My printing bureau recently had a problem printing an Illustrator PDF version I had supplied them of a simple Illustrator10 graphics file. Everything looked OK on my monitor, my Epson C70 printer when I printed the file at home, and the monitor at the printers, however when 50 hard copies were printed, there were some strange errors: * A rectangular patch had shifted position leaving a glaring gap * A rectangular area with a different shade appeared around some type which had a soft drop shadow. * A darker rectangular area had appeared arbitrarily over a graduated blue rectangle. The printer has blamed me for the debacle, refusing to reprint them, saying that what you see of a PDF file on screen is not necessarily what you get when you print it out, and that results my differ depending on whether you print on a Post Script or non-Post Script printer. This makes some sort of twisted sense, but how the hell can I trust any PDFs I've made from my graphics software (Illustrator10, Photoshop7, and InDesign2) will print correctly when I send them to printers? Obviously I will insist on printers' proofs for every job that I control from now on, but how do I monitor PDFs emailed to clients that haven't or can't be proofed first? I thought PDFs were supposed to be rock solid. David Ogilvie AnteVellum design + typography 1/24 George Street Greenwich NSW 2065 Australia Phone/Fax (612) 9436 3043 To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
