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You don't say what version of Acrobat you are using but we use Acrobat 6 at our newspaper and it has been a truly horrible experience. Type knocking out is only one example. Just yesterday I received an ad which had reversed type on a black background. Looked great, even with the overprint preview turned on, but when we ripped it or saved as an eps or any other thing we tried, the white reverse type disappeared. Finally someone in the art department called and said they had fixed the problem, they simply opened the document in an earlier version of Acrobat and it worked fine. I had another Acro 6 surprise today. I tried editing some photos in Acro 6 and when I selected them with the edit object tool the photo would only open as a tiled photo. In other word, one sixth of the photo area would open as a separate photo in Photoshop. When I went back to the original PDF and went over the photo selecting and deleting each section of the this overlaying grid a one piece photo was left which I could then edit. How this happened I may never know, I just hope it doesn't become a recurring problem because Acrobat 5 is not available for OS X. Thank you Adobe! Dan Hiniker ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Thieme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Stanko, Diane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 6:45 PM Subject: [PDF] Trouble with type Knocking out!! > > The PDF list is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com > __________________________________________________________________ > > 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? > > > > -- > William C. P. Thieme > Manager of Advertising Operations > Denver Newspaper Agency > > Colfax: (303) 892-2963 > Broadway: (303) 820-5419 > Cell: (303) 419-6999 > > > > To change your subscription: > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdf.html
