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Hello Mr Leinheider,
I have converted some text to outline on one page, but this page has given me no problems. You have guessed correctly about the EPS clipping paths on other pages.
However, I am still mystified. As I said in my letter, I have been making PDFs with complicated clipping paths for years, and never had this problem until recently. Anyone who has ever had to make a cutout graphic to be placed against a coloured background in Quark will have used this stratagem to avoid the white block that inevitably surrounds a tiff --- even if the background looks transparent. The path flatness is, as far as I can remember, set to the default of 2, so this doesn't sound as if it's the likely cause.
I am making PDFs for an imagesetter with a screen frequency of 175 at a dpi of 300. My printers have told me to set the output options to a screen of 175, with a resolution of 2400 in the Quark print dialog box. Could the sheer size of the file to be compressed be making the difference? When I worked in newsprint, our pages were much larger, but the EPSes and tiffs were much smaller because we were working at a screen frequency of 75 and a dpi of 200, sometimes less.
What do you think?
And thanks for taking the time to answer.
Catherine Osborn
On Monday, Mar 29, 2004, at 20:28 Europe/Dublin, Peter Kleinheider wrote:
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Hi Mr. Osborn
Might it be possible that you have a very complicated path (fonts converted to outline or cuttingpath) with path-flatness of 0?
Peter Kleinheider
On 29.03.2004, at 21:08, Catherine Osborn wrote:
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Hello,
I've been using PDF for several years now in the publishing business. At the Farmers Journal in Dublin, all our pages have been sent to our printers on PDF for the last three years. We print in full colour and I have often used large Photoshop EPSes with complicated clipping paths on A3 (tabloid size) pages. However, I am now doing DTP work on a Macintosh (running Mac OS 9.22 on a parition next to Mac Os 10.2.8) from home and have recently found it impossible to create press ready composite CMYK PDFs using either Quark 4 or Quark Passport 5 with Acrobat Distiller 5. I keep getting limitcheck errors. I have tried going back to my older version of Acrobat 4 and have tried giving Distiller and my desktop printers massive amounts of extra RAM, all to no avail. This is extremely frustrating because I need to be able to use graphics with transparent backgrounds. I have had no problems with such files until recently. Has anyone got any suggestions?
C. Osborn
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