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I've followed this thread, and have been concerned that your problem is not directly PDF-related at all, rather it may be issues with your file/s creation workflow. If it were me, and this is the way I do what you are trying to do: 1. Mask your image with Photoshop (there are many ways to do this). Convert your selection to a path. Make your path a clipping path with a flatness of 8 (this has always worked for me, although some people choose 4 or 2). Save the image as an EPS file. 2. Import your EPS into a Quark container. You already have masked the image, so have nothing further to do here. Save your file. 3. Either print a PostScript file and distill, or export your PDF from Quark. Do not make a Quark EPS file. There are many ways of successfully achieving a PDF which will properly separate, but there are also a snakepit full (of snakes) of ways in which to create files which will barf during the RIP. I've used this workflow for 15 years, and it always has been bulletproof for me. Rich -----Original Message----- From: On Behalf Of Catherine Osborn Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 4:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PDF-Basics] press optimised PDFs fail at imagesetter Hello all, I was having trouble actually making PDFs with EPSes containing transparent backgrounds. I discovered that if I set the tolerance and noise in the Quark runaround box to 5, I could produce "press ready" PDFs with no PS errors. They displayed fine on screen and were easy to send to the printers on the broadband line. However, my printers were unable to make film for the imagesetter. The kept getting blanks. Has anyone else had this problem? My graphics files were all TIFFs and EPSes in CMYK at 300dpi with a screen frequency of 175. Although I could send the entire original Quark file on the broadband, it saves the printers work if I can send PDFs. So far, however, this has proved imposible, but oddly only with one of the printers with whom I do business. Any suggestions? Catherine 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
