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David, I'd like to analyze your PDF...please send it to my email address. What version of Acrobat do you use...how about your printer? What kind of machine was this printed to? I have used PDFs for jobs worth 10's of thousands of dollars with no concerns, or problems. But I only do business with people who I have absolute trust in. Rich Sprague > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of davidogilvie > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 5:20 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PDF-Basics] Errors on printed PDFs from Illustrator 10 > > > > PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | > http://www.pdfzone.com/ > __________________________________________________________________ > > 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 > To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
