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Chris,
The problem is not the reliability of the PDF exported from InDesign,
but rather, the reliability of the composition, prepress software, and/or
RIPs that "consume" that PDF.
PDF generated by InDesign, a Unicode-based application, uses double byte
encoding (CID encoding) for character and font representation. Unfortunately,
some non-Adobe applications, prepress packages, and/or RIPs did not completely
or at all implement the CID encoding portion of either the PDF and/or
PostScript specifications!
- Dov
At 7/3/2003 07:34 AM, display wrote:
>We recently received a pdf file which generated a postscript error on our
>rips after an eps had successfully been made from the original.
>Upon closer inspection, it turns out that the file was originally produced
>using Adobe Indesign 2.0.2. (each to their own, I suppose!)
>By all accounts, the person who supplied the copy had done everything
>correctly, ie. generating his pdf from the application he was using,
>yet his file still generated an error.
>A colleauge of mine mentioned that he had read about the unreliabilty of
>creating pdfs from Adobe Indesign before, and this would certainly seem to
>back up that theory!
>I was just wondering if anyone else had had similar experiences?
>You would assume that since Adobe created the program it would be more than
>compatible with acrobat/pdf, but this isn't the case on this occasion.
>
>Regards,
>Chris (Express and Star Newspapers).
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