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Hi William
If I read your mail correctly, then the drop-shadow is not overprinting the type. It's the oposite way. The type is overprinting the drop-shadow. That means that the Type (or even just one Character) is set to overprint.
If the people would correctly preview their PDF - meaning with Overprint Preview - they would already see how it would come out.
Meaning: Your Proof and your Separation is doing what is inside the PDF - it is designed inadequate.
I would suggest 2 things:
1) The people doing the PDFs shall not preserve overprint setting - only people that know what they do shall preserve the overprint
2) have the PDF preflighted for text that is set to overprint and has less than 97% (as an example) Black tint.
What you also can do: remove all overprints and only set black to overprint - but be aware that there might be black areas that are only partly over an image that you'd better knock out or define with a littler percentage in CMY.
regards
Peter Kleinheider
On 06.04.2004, at 19:25, William Thieme wrote:
best regards/mit freundlichen Gru:ssen
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Good Day!
I work for a major newspaper publishing company, and we receive a large
percentage of our ads as camera-ready PDFs, usually distilled with Distiller
settings we have provided for our customers. 90% of these ads arrive and run
fine, but we've been experiencing a truly random problem with type failing
to knock out consistently. For example, we'll receive an ad with yellow or
red type, with a black drop shadow - but the drop shadow overprints the
colored type. The PDF, in most cases, will look fine on screen, but will
proof incorrectly, and consequently separate to film incorrectly. These
files usually come from Quark, but not consistently. We will also find this
problem on only some type within an given PDF, or even within words (at
character level.
Anyone else heard of this, in this seemingly random fashion? Any solutions?
Inpetto - Peter Kleinheider PrePress Consultant & Workflow Programming St. Po:ltnerstr. 26 3130 Herzogenburg AUSTRIA ________________________________ Mobil: +43/650/2600099 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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