Nadgummit, right after I said that this protocol was foolproof, I find
out I am foolhardy.

I recreated a PDF of a 3 spot color bumper sticker for a label
printer. Everything "looks" fine, but it turns out the black plate,
which has placed EPS artwork in it, does not show the artwork. I see
it onscreen as a composite, but not in the art layer. And when I print
it out as a composite, the art is gone.

A PDF I created in 2007 separates perfectly. When I dissect these two
PDFS, I find that the PDF that works was created with PDF 1.4
compatibility, and the one that does not was 1.3.

I just tested this in IND CS5, using PDF/X-1a with Acrobat 5
compatibility, and that output has the black plate intact too. So
where did the flattener go?

Isn't this the opposite of conventional wisdom?



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Carol Majors / Publications unltd
Raleigh NC
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