PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __________________________________________________________________
Catherine, Quark v4 will show you how many points are in an images path under the Modify/clipping path window. Look in the lower left corner. As for how Photoshop 6 compares to 7, I don't know I only have v6. Can you go back to v6 and run a test? Gregory Onder Pace Communications Production Manager US Airways Attach� 1301 Carolina Street Greensboro, NC 27401 (336) 383-5477 > ---------- > From: Catherine Osborn > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 2:02 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PDF-Basics] the old limitcheck error > > > PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ > __________________________________________________________________ > > Hello Greg, > Thanks for the tip, but since the paths were created in Photoshop using > the trick of Select all, then deselecting all the white background with > the Magic Wand so that I could export a Photoshop EPS with transparent > background, I'm not exactly sure how to determine the number of points > in the path. In any event, I have been using this trick for years, and > only recently started having difficulties making the conversion to PDF. > I have moved from Photoshop 6 to 7. Is there a possible difference in > the complexity of paths from one version to the next? > Thanks for your time. > Catherine Osborn > On Tuesday, Mar 30, 2004, at 14:53 Europe/Dublin, Greg Onder wrote: > > > > > PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | > > http://www.pdfzone.com/ > > __________________________________________________________________ > > > > Catherine, > > Have you tried simplifying a path by removing a lot of the points and > > testing that to see if there is a threshold at which you receive the > > limitcheck error. Try with just one image and remove the complex path > > and > > redraw it very crudely with only 50 points or so. If that works, keep > > increasing the number of points until you determine the threshold. > > > > Gregory Onder > > Pace Communications > > Production Manager US Airways Attach� > > 1301 Carolina Street > > Greensboro, NC 27401 > > (336) 383-5477 > > > >> ---------- > >> From: Catherine Osborn > >> Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 2:08 PM > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Subject: [PDF-Basics] the old limitcheck error > >> > >> > >> PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | > >> http://www.pdfzone.com/ > >> __________________________________________________________________ > >> > >> 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 > >> > >> > >> To change your subscription: > >> http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html > >> > >> > > > > To change your subscription: > > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html > > > > > > > To change your subscription: > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html > > To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfbasics.html
